preparation
This page details what you should do each week in preparation for class. For the most part this is not formally graded, it's just what you should be doing before class (the formally graded material will appear on the assignments page).
Tuesday 29th Jan
Show up. Also, read the Student Welcome Letter from the text (see the resources page).
Thursday 31st Jan
Nothing specific, but you might want to see if you can install and start up R on your own computer or make sure you can access it on the lab machines. Also, there is reading for Tuesday that you can get started on, see below.
Tuesday 5th Feb
Read either Sections 1.1-1.4 of OpenIntro Statistics or Sections 1.1-1.5 of Collaborative Stats (see resources page).
Thursday 7th Feb
Finish Chapter 1 of OpenIntro Statistics or Collaborative Stats.
Tuesday 26th Feb
Read about probability. Either 2.1 and 2.2 of OpenIntro Stats or Chapter 3 of Collaborative Stats.
Tuesday 5th and Thursday 7th Mar
Distributions. Either Coll Stat 4, 5 and 6 (ski[pping all the optional bits) or OpenIntro Stats 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5.2. There is a lot here, and you should browse in the parts not listed as well. We have (or will have) talked about all the big ideas in class; this reading should fill in the details and give you some practice. On Tuesday we'll go over anything you found confusing or difficult and on Thursday we'll focus more on initial difficulties with the assignment.
Also, please make sure that your Piglike games are up-to-date on the wiki page for Thursday's class.
Thursday 4th and Tuesday 10th Apr
- Either OpenIntro Stats Chapter 4 or Collaborative Stats 7.1, 7.2, 8 and 9.
- Lots (and lots) of die rolling, plus calculation of confidence intervals. The R code we used in class is available on the resources page.
Thursday 11th Apr
- Come prepared to talk for two minutes about what your project is, or will be, or might be... You don't have to have anything locked in yet, but you should be close to that.
Tuesday 16th and Thursday 18th Apr
- Either Collaborative Stats 10 and 13 or OpenIntro Stats 5.
- On Thursday we'll check-in with everyone's projects; where they are, what you need, etc.
Thursday 25th and Tuesday 30th Apr
Thursday 1st May
- OpenIntro Stats: 6.3, 6.4 and Chapter 7. Collaborative Stats: Chapters 11 and 12.
