Statistics for Data Science

Lecture	Date	Content	Evaluation
1	8/24/20	First Class Syllabus, Broad Introduction to class details
		Topic 1: Basic R
2	8/26/20	Basic R (I): Introduction to R and R Studio Part I	Quiz 1
3	8/31/20	Basic R (II): Introduction to R and R Studio Part II	1. Quiz 2; Complete Datacamp course, except "Factor";
4	9/2/20	Basic R (III): Introduction to R and R Studio Part II
5	9/7/20	Labor Day
6	9/9/20	Basic R (IV): Introduction to R and R Markdown Part III	PS1 (PDF); PS1 (R Markdown); PS1 More examples (R Markdown)
		Topic 2: What do we do? Statistics and Forecasting/Prediction
7	9/14/20	Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (I): Introduction to Statistics and Forecasting Part I
8	9/16/20	Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (II) Introduction to Forecasting Part 2	Quiz 3
9	9/21/20	Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (II) Time Series (Various Features) details
10	9/23/20	Statistics & Forecasting/Prediction (IV) Naïve Decomposition and Forecasting Methods details	Quiz4 and PS2; PS2 (R Markdown)
		Topic 3: Basic Probability Theory
11	9/28/20	**Brief History and Basic Probability Theory (I) ** details
12	9/30/20	**Brief History and Basic Probability Theory (II) ** details	Quiz5 and PS3; PS3 (R Markdown)
		Topic 4: Probability and Distribution: Discrete Variables
13	10/5/20	Probability and Distribution Functions (I): Discrete Variables and Classification details
14	10/7/20	Probability and Distribution Functions (II): Discrete Variables and Classification details	Quiz 6 and PS3; PS3 (R Markdown)
15	10/12/20	Probability and Distribution Functions (III): Discrete Variable and Text Minining details	PS4; PS4 (R Markdown)
		Topic 5: Probability and Distribution: Continuous Variables
16	10/14/20	Probability and Distribution Functions (IV): Continuous Variables and Financial Risks details	Quiz 7
17	10/19/20	Probability and Distribution Functions (V): Continuous Variables details	PS4; PS4 (R Markdown)
18	10/21/20	Midterm	Before Miderm
19	10/26/20	Probability and Distribution Functions (VI): Financial Risks details	PS4; PS4 (R Markdown)
20	10/28/20	Parts of Distributions (I): Mean or Expected Value (Definition, Sample Estimates, Applications and Misapplications) details	Quiz 8 and PS5; ; PS5 R Markdown
21	11/2/20	Parts of Distributions (II): Mean or Expected Value (Definition, Sample Estimates, Applications and Misapplications) details
22	11/4/20	Parts of Distributions (III): Which one to focus on? Loss and Risk Functions; Mean and Everything else (distribution and moments) details
23	11/9/20	Parts of Distributions (IV): Applications of moments and distribution details	Quiz 9
		Topic 6: Computational Statistics and Parametric Distributions
24	11/11/20	Computational Statistics I: Monte Carlo Simulation details	Quiz 10 and PS5; ; PS5 R Markdown
25	11/16/20	Parametric Distribution and Monte Carlo Simulation: Discrete, Binomial Distribution details
26	11/18/20	Parametric Distributions: Uniform and Normal Distributions details	PS 6
27	11/23/20	Parametric Distributions: Continuous details
28	11/25/20	Thanksgiving
		Topic 7: Hypothesis Testing
29	11/30/20	Computational Statistics II: Bootstrap (Optional)
30	12/2/20	Hypothesis Testing: Introduction details
31	12/7/20	Hypothesis Testing details	Quiz 11; PS 7
32	12/9/20	Hypothesis Testing: Introduction and Test of Mean details
	12/18/2020	Final