Schedule

Week 1

Date Class Materials Supplemental Materials
Wed9/23 What is Statistics? "Soloist evaluations of six Old Italian and six new violins" by Fritz et al. (2014)
Section9/24 2000 Presidential Election florida2000.csv
Download R
Fri9/25 Hypothesis Testing Dice Setting by the Wizard of Odds (reading)

Week 2

Date Class Materials Supplemental Materials
Mon9/28 The Binomial Distribution How lucky is too lucky? (video)
Dream Investigation Results (reading)
Wed9/30 Hypergeometric Distribution Swain v. Alabama (reading)
Section10/1 Assignment: Do You Have ESP?
Interview 1 Prep
Randomization and Social Affairs: The 1970 Draft Lottery (reading)
Her Incredible Sense of Smell Is Helping Scientists Find New Ways to Diagnose Disease (reading)
Fri10/2 Alternative Hypothesis Who Do You Look Like? Evidence of Facial Stereotypes for Male Names (reading)

Week 3

Date Class Materials Supplemental Materials
Mon10/5 Survey Sampling The First Measured Century - The Gallup Poll (video)
Handedness and Eye-Dominance: A Meta-analysis of Their Relationship (reading)
Wed10/7 Multiple Testing
Section10/8 Project 1 Proposal
Fri10/9 The Normal Approximation

Week 4

Date Class Materials Supplemental Materials
Mon10/12 Insights from the Normal Approximation Power Calculator (applet)
Wed10/14 The Central Limit Theorem and Inference for a Mean
Section10/15 Interview 1
Fri10/16 Interview 1

Week 5

Date Class Materials Supplemental Materials
Mon10/19 Confidence Intervals for a Mean
Wed10/21 Practical Inference for a Mean Normal body temperature is personal, Stanford Medicine researchers find (reading)
Section10/22 Project 1 Presentations
Fri10/23 Confidence Intervals for a Proportion How Much Water is There on Earth? (reading)