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BCS 200: Lecture Schedule
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| Date |
Topics |
Reading |
Homework Due |
Lab |
| 09/02 |
Course overview |
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None |
| 09/07 |
Intro to exp. design & statistical reasoning |
Ch 1
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Intro to WebWork |
| 09/09 |
Measurement scales, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency |
Ch 2-3, pp. 70-78 |
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| 09/14 |
Skew, Measures of variability |
pp. 79-85 |
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Excel, Summary Statistics |
| 09/16 |
Probability I
Mini-quiz 1 |
Ch 8 |
Homework 1 |
| 09/21 |
Probability II, conditional probability |
Ch 8 |
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Plotting data |
| 09/23 |
Bayesian decision making I
Mini-quiz 2 |
Handout |
Homework 2 |
| 09/28 |
Bayesian decision making II |
Handout |
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Randomness |
| 09/30 |
Probability distributions
Binomial distribution
Mini-quiz 3 |
Ch 9 |
Homework 3 |
| 10/05 |
EXAM 1 |
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z-transform |
| 10/07 |
Probability distributions
Normal distribution, z-transform |
Ch 5 |
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| 10/12 |
Hypothesis testing-the sign test |
Ch 10 |
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Inferences about proportions |
| 10/14 |
Power
Mini-quiz 4 |
Ch 11 |
Homework 4 |
| 10/19 |
Sampling distributions, z-test |
Ch 12 |
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Inferences about means |
| 10/21 |
Hypothesis tests for means
Confidence intervals on the mean
Mini-quiz 5 |
Ch 13 |
Homework 5 |
| 10/26 |
Testing for differences in means I |
Ch 14 |
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Comparing means |
| 10/28 |
Testing for differences in means II |
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| 11/02 |
Power analysis of tests for differences in means
Mini-quiz 6 |
Ch 14 |
Homework 6 |
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| 11/04 |
EXAM 2 |
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| 11/09 |
Correlation |
Ch 6 |
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Linear regression |
| 11/11 |
Linear regression |
Ch 7 |
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| 11/16 |
Confidence intervals for rho, hypothesis tests about rho |
Ch 7 |
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One-way Anova |
| 11/18 |
One-way Anova
Mini-quiz 7 |
Ch 15 |
Homework 7 |
| 11/30 |
One-way Anova, post-hoc tests |
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Two-way Anova |
| 12/02 |
Two-way Anova |
Ch 16 |
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| 12/07 |
Two-way Anova |
Ch 16 |
Homework 8 |
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| 12/09 |
EXAM 3 |
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