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Statistics: Making Sense of Data
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282 h
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- 47 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
A first look at data
Weeks 1-2: Summary statistics and graphical displays for a single categorical or quantitative variable and for relationships between two variables.
Collecting data
Week 2: Sampling. Observational studies and experiments. The effect of confounding and concluding causation.
Probability
Week 3: Probability models, the normal distribution, the Law of Large Numbers, the Central Limit Theorem, sampling distributions.
Confidence Intervals
Week 4: Confidence intervals and sample size estimation for proportions and means.
Tests of significance
Week 5: Tests of significance, power and sample size estimation for proportions and means
Two samples
Week 6: Tests of significance and confidence intervals for proportions and means in the two sample case.
Simple linear regression
Week 7: Method of least squares, evaluating model fit, the effects of outliers and influential observations.
The process of statistical inquiry
Week 8: Capstone case study.
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
- Alison Gibbs - Department of Statistical Sciences
- Jeffrey Rosenthal - Department of Statistical Sciences
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