Lecture Topics

The course syllabus can be found here.

Week 13: 5/16

• Lec33: Final Review
  • Slides

Week 12: 5/9 - 5/13

• Lec30: Bayesian Statistics
  • Slides
• Lec31: More Bayes
  • Slides
• Lec32: Empirical Bayes
  • Slides

Week 11: 5/2 - 5/6

• Lec27: Residuals and Inference for Regression
  • Slides
• Lec28: Resampling Regression Methods
  • Slides
• Lec29: Logistic Regression
  • Slides

Week 10: 4/25 - 4/29

• Lec24: Midterm III Review
  • Slides
• Lec25: Correlation
  • Slides
• Lec26: Regression
  • Slides

Week 9: 4/18 - 4/22

• Lec21: Hypothesis Testing
  • App demonstrating CLT condition for Binomial Data: success_failure.Rmd
    • Open in RStudio
    • Press "Run Document"
• Lec22: More Hypothesis Testing
  • Slides
• Lec23: Likelihood Ratio Tests
  • Final exam will be an open-book take home final on Friday 5/20
    • Distributed at 8:30am
    • Due at 12:30pm
  • Slides

Week 8: 4/11 - 4/15

• Lec19: More Confidence Intervals II
  • Lecture only. Polling examples:
    • 2013 NPR article on poll: Support For Obama Among Young Americans Eroding.
    • NY Times disclaimer on poll results.
    • Can We Trust Polls Without Cellphones Anymore?
• Lec20: Bootstrap t Confidence Intervals
  • Slides
  • Only who can prevent forest fires?

Week 7: 4/4 - 4/8

• Lec16: Midterm II Review
  • Slides
• Lec17: t-Distribution
  • Slides
• Lec18: More Confidence Intervals
  • Slides

Week 6: 3/21 - 3/25

• Lec13: Method of Moments
  • Lecture only
• Lec14: Properties of Estimators
  • Slides
• Lec15: Properties of Estimators
  • Lecture only

Week 5: 3/14 - 3/18

• Lec10: Bootstrap Confidence Intervals
  • Slides
• Lec11: Finishing the Bootstrap
  • Slides
• Lec12: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Normal parameters example (source code).

Week 4: 3/7 - 3/11

• Lec08: Bootstrap Algorithm
  • Slides
• Lec09: Bootstrap Standard Error
  • Slides

Week 3: 2/29 - 3/4

• Lec05: Chi-Square Test Statistic Based Tests
  • Slides
• Lec06: Sampling Distributions
  • Slides
• Lec07: Central Limit Theorem
  • Slides
  • Video: As ‘Normal’ as Rabbits’ Weights and Dragons’ Wings

Week 2: 2/22 - 2/26

• Lec04: Chi-Square Test Statistics and Contingency Tables
  • Slides
  • Files:
    • Code for Example 3.3 on page 44 of a non-symmetric null distribution: Ex_3-3.R
• Lec03: Permutation Tests
  • Slides

Week 1: 2/15 - 2/19

• Lec02: ECDF and Permutation Tests
  • Slides
  • Video: Example of two-sample permutation test "Using Randomization to Analyze a Gender Discrimination Study"
  • Files:
    • Example of two-sample permutation test: permutation_test.zip. Instructions:
      1. Go to the above directory "Lec02 ECDF and Permutation Test"
      2. Click on permutation_test.zip -> Click on "Raw" button next to the "History" button. Unzip the resulting file.
      3. In RStudio -> Files Panel (in one of the 4 quandrants of RStudio) -> Navigate to the directory with the two files -> Click More -> Set As Working Directory
      4. Double-click permutation_test.Rmd to open it.
      5. Click on "Knit HTML" and say yes to any prompts to install packages.
      6. Please go over by Monday.
• Lec01: Populations and Samples and Exploratory Data Analysis
  • Slides