| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 9/22 | What is Statistics? | "Generative AI without guardrails can harm learning" by Bastani et al. (2025) |
| Wed | 9/24 | What is Probability? |
Glow, Big Glowworm from Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould (reading) Linda: Less is More from Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (reading) |
| Tutorial | 9/25 |
Getting Started with R (upload completed assignment to Canvas) |
Predicting Old Faithful |
| Fri | 9/26 | Coincidences | What a coincidence! (reading) |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 9/29 | The Box Model and the Binomial Distribution |
Virtual Galton Board Box Model Applet |
| Wed | 10/1 | Hypothesis Testing |
How lucky is too lucky? (video) Dream Investigation Results (reading) |
| Tutorial | 10/2 |
Intel Processor Bug (upload completed assignment to Canvas) [solutions] |
Demo of Pentium FDIV Bug |
| Fri | 10/3 | Hypergeometric distribution [handout version] |
Swain v. Alabama |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 10/6 | Survey Sampling [handout version] |
The First Measured Century - The Gallup Poll (video) Who Are The People Who Don't Respond To Polls? (reading) |
| Wed | 10/8 | Alternative Hypothesis [handout version] |
Who do you look like? (reading) |
| Tutorial | 10/9 |
Do you have ESP?
(upload completed assignment to Canvas) [solutions] |
Zener card test applet Download QMD file Randomization and social affairs: The 1970 draft lottery (reading) |
| Fri | 10/10 | Multiple Testing [handout version] |
"Garden of Forking Paths" by Borges |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 10/13 | The Normal Approximation [handout version] |
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| Wed | 10/15 |
Insights from the Normal Approximation [handout version] |
Exploring Power for Proportions |
| Tutorial | 10/16 | Interview 1 | |
| Fri | 10/17 |
The Central Limit Theorem and Inference for Means [handout version] |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 10/20 |
Confidence Intervals for a Mean [handout version] |
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| Wed | 10/22 |
Practical Inference for a Mean [handout version] |
"Normal body temperature is personal, Stanford Medicine researchers find" (reading) |
| Tutorial | 10/23 |
Political Polling (upload completed assignment to Canvas) [solutions] |
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| Fri | 10/24 |
Confidence Intervals for a Proportion [handout version] |
How much water is there on Earth? |
Wed 10/29: Project 1 Draft Due on Canvas
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 10/27 |
Quality Control [handout version] |
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| Wed | 10/29 |
Observational Studies and Randomized Experiments [handout version] |
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| Tutorial | 10/30 |
Should you eat farmed salmon? (upload completed assignment to Canvas) |
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| Fri | 10/31 | Midterm |
Wed 11/5: Project 1 Due on Canvas
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 11/3 |
The Potential Outcomes Model [handout version] |
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| Wed | 11/5 |
Normal Approximation for the Treatment Effect [handout version] |
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| Tutorial | 11/6 |
Do Smaller Class Sizes Improve Achievement? (upload completed assignment to Canvas) |
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| Fri | 11/7 |
Randomized Experiments with Binary Outcomes [handout version] |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 11/10 |
Fisher's Exact Test [handout version] |
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| Wed | 11/12 |
The Story of the Polio Vaccine [handout version] |
"Evaluation of the 1954 Poliomyelitis Vaccine Field Trial" (1955) by Thomas Francis, Jr. |
| Tutorial | 11/13 | Interview 2 | |
| Fri | 11/14 |
Randomized Block Experiments [handout version] |
Fri 11/21: Project 2 Draft and Data Due on Canvas
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 11/17 |
Matched Pairs Designs [handout version] |
De Lucas (2000): The Effects of Wet Suits on Physiological and Biomechanical Indices During Swimming Lucking-Reiley (1999): Using Field Experiments to Test Equivalence Between Auction Formats: Magic on the Internet |
| Wed | 11/19 |
McNemar's Test [handout version] |
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| Tutorial | 11/20 |
Does Peanut Consumption in Infancy Prevent Peanut Allergies? (upload completed assignment to Canvas) [solutions] |
Du Toit et al., "Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy" |
| Fri | 11/21 |
Data Visualization with the Grammar of Graphics [handout version] |
Wickham, R for Data Science, Chapter 1. |
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No class! |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 12/1 |
Review and Design Principles [handout version] |
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| Wed | 12/3 | Optional Final | |
| Thurs | 12/4 | What Makes Paper Planes Fly Farther? (upload completed assignment to Canvas) |
Paper Airplane Designs |
| Fri | 12/5 | Early Poster Session | "Make a Good Poster" by Stanford Undergraduate Research |
The poster session will take place on Wednesday, 12/10 from 3:30 - 6:30 PM in CoDa E160.