Date | Class Topic | Reading |
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1/24 | Course Introduction | Start reading TS, Introduction and Chapter 1 |
1/26 | Systems and feedback | TS, Introduction and Chapter 1 (pages 1 - 34) |
1/29 | The Systems ``Zoo'' | TS, Chapter 2 (pages 35 - 72) |
1/31 | Why systems work and why they surprise us | TS, Chapters 3 and 4 (pages 75 - 110) |
2/2 | System traps and opportunities -- Problem Set 1 due | TS, Chapter 5 (pages 121 - 148) |
2/5 | Leverage points | TS, Chapters 6 and 7 (pages 145 - 185) |
2/7 | Transition to data analysis | EM, Chapter 9 |
2/9 | Measures of the center of a dataset -- Problem Set 2 due | EM, section 9.2 |
2/12 | Measures of Spread and Distribution | EM, section 9.3 |
2/14 | Exploratory data analysis | EM, section 9.4 |
2/16 | More on exploratory data analysis -- Problem Set 3 due | EM, section 9.4 |
2/19 | Chapter 9 project | EM, section 9.6 |
2/21 | Chapter 9 project, continued | EM, section 9.6 |
2/23 | Spare day -- Paper 1 due | |
2/26 | Preparation for presentations to the cluster | |
2/28 | Preparation for presentations to the cluster | |
3/2 | Preparation for presentations to the cluster | |
3/5,7,9 | Spring Break -- no class | EM, Chapter 10 |
3/12 | Final run-throughs of presentations | |
3/14 | Probabilities, conditional probabilities, and independence | EM, section 10.2 |
3/16 | More on conditional probabilities and independence | EM, section 10.2 |
3/19 | Discrete distributions | EM, section 10.3 |
3/21 | Expected value and variance | EM, section 10.4 |
3/23 | Probability densities -- Midterm Papers Due | EM, section 10.5 |
3/26 | Normal distributions | EM, section 10.6 |
3/28 | Z-scores and normal probabilities -- Problem set 4 due | EM, section 10.7 |
3/30,4/2 | Easter Break -- no class | EM, Chapter 10 |
4/4 | Discuss "One Good Man" by Sherman Alexie | text on course homepage |
4/6 | Z-scores and normal probabilities | EM, section 10.7 |
4/9 | Models of sampling | EM, section 11.2 |
4/11 | Sampling from normal populations | EM, section 11.3 |
4/13 | More on sampling from normal populations -- Paper 2 due | EM, section 11.3 |
4/16 | Central Limit Theorem | EM, section 11.4 |
4/18 | The chi-square distributions (an overview) | EM, section 11.5 |
4/20 | Chapter 11 project -- Problem set 5 due | EM, section 11.6 |
4/23 | Hypothesis tests | EM, sections 12.1 and 12.2 |
4/25 | Academic conference -- no class | EM, section 12.3 |
4/27 | Tests for means and proportions -- Problem Set 6 due | EM, section 12.3 |
4/30 | p-values and hypothesis tests | EM, section 12.4 |
5/2 | Chi-square tests for model fit | EM, section 12.7 |
5/4 | Chi-square tests for independence -- Problem Set 7 due | EM, section 12.7 |
5/7 | Semester wrap-up | EM, section 12.7 |
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