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Teaching Statistical Thinking: Part 1 Descriptive Statistics
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25 h
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- 5 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
This class is taught in three units over 5 weeks
- Getting started with data (1 week)
- Single variable graphics and number summaries (1 week)
- Graphics and number summaries describing the relationship between two variables (2 weeks)
- Review (1 week)
Unit 1, Getting Started with Data
- 01_01 Introduction
- 01_02 Data, Variables, Unit of Observation/Analysis
- 02_01 Graphics: Histogram, Boxplot
- 02_02 Number Summaries: Center
- 02_03 Number Summaries: Spread
- 02_04 Transformation and Standardization
- 02_05 Bell-shaped Curves
- 03_01 Two Categorical Variables: Mosaic Plots
- 03_02 Two Categorical Variables: Contingency Tables
- 03_03 One Categorical, One Numeric Variable: Side by Side Boxplots
- 03_04 Two Categorical Variables: Correlation
- 03_05 Two Numeric Variables: Regression
- 03_06:03_09 Review of entire course
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
- Dalene Stangl - Statistical Science
- Kate Allman - Program in Education
- Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel - Department of Statistical Science
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