Statistics 2, Fall 2010        LECTURE SCHEDULE        Shobhana Murali Stoyanov  

1. Week 1:
   • Reading: Chapters 1, 2
   • Th 8/26 : Course overview, ideas from chapters 1, 2
   • Jon Carroll's take on statistics.
   • Another San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Adair Lara, on "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics".
2. Week 2:
   • Reading: Chapters 3, 4,
   • Tu 8/31: Histograms (ch. 3)
   • Th 9/2: Averages, medians, SD (ch. 4)
3. Week 3:
   • Reading: Chapters 5, 8, 9
   • Tu 9/7: Normal curve (ch. 5)
   • Th 9/9: Correlation (ch. 8, 9)
4. Week 4:
   • Reading: Chapters 9, 10
   • Tu 9/14: Correlation and Regression (ch. 9, 10)
   • Th 9/16: Regression (ch. 10,11)
5. Week 5:
   • Reading: Chapters 11, 12; 13, 14
   • Tu 9/21: R.M.S. error for Regression (ch. 11), the Regression line (ch. 12)
   • Th 9/23: Wrap up regression, begin probability
6. Week 6:
   • Reading: Chapters 13, 14, 15
   • Tu 9/28:Probability (ch. 13, 14)
   • Th 9/30: Independence and the Binomial formula (ch. 15)
7. Week 7:
   • Tu 10/5: Review
   • Th 10/7: MIDTERM (Chapters 1-5, 8-15)
8. Week 8:
   • Reading: Chapters 16, 17
   • Tu 10/12: Law of averages, Box model (ch. 16)
   • Th 10/14: EV, SE for sum, normal curve (ch. 17)
9. Week 9:
   • Reading: Chapters 18, 19
   • Tu 10/19: Careful normal approximation for probability histograms (ch. 18)
   • Th 10/21: Sampling (ch. 19)

NOTE: we are running a bit behind this schedule. So this week (11), we will do chapters 21,23 and try for 26.


10. Week 10:
    • Reading: Chapters 20, 21, 23
    • Tu 10/26: Chance errors in sampling (ch. 20)
    • Th 10/28: Confidence intervals for percents, averages (ch. 21, 23)
11. Week 11:
    • Lecture Notes for Chap. 23.
    • Reading: Chapters 21, 23, 26
    • Tu 11/2: Interpreting confidence intervals (ch. 21, 23)
    • Th 11/4: One-sample z-tests (ch. 26)
12. Week 12:
    • Lecture Notes for Chap. 26 (part 1: z-test).
    • Reading: Chapters 26, 27
    • Tu 11/9: Small sample t-test (ch. 26)
    • Th 11/11: HOLIDAY!
13. Week 13:
    • Reading: Chapters 27
    • Tu 11/16: SE for difference, 2 sample test (ch. 27)
    • Th 11/18: Which test to use? (ch. 26, 27)
14. Week 14:
    • Reading: Chapters 28
    • Tu 11/23: Chi-squared test for goodness of fit, and independence (ch. 28)
    • Th 11/25: HOLIDAY!
15. Week 15:
    • Reading: Chapter 29
    • Tu 11/30: Closer look at significance tests (ch. 29)
    • Th 12/2: Finish up.
16. Week 16:
    • RRR week
17. Week 17:
    • FINAL EXAM, 12/14, 8-11 am, room TBA