Date | Class Topic | Reading |
---|---|---|
1/23 | Course Introduction | Start reading M |
1/25 | Systems and feedback | M, pages 35-58 |
1/28 | The Systems ``Zoo'' | M, pages 35-58 |
1/30 | The ``Systems Perspective'' | Start looking at MDA, Chapter 9 |
2/1 | Measures of the center of a dataset -- Problem Set 1 due | MDA, section 9.2 |
2/4 | Measures of Spread and Distribution | MDA, section 9.3 |
2/6 | Chapter 9 project, start | MDA, section 9.6 |
2/8 | Chapter 9 project, continued -- Problem Set 2 due | MDA, section 9.6 |
2/11 | Outliers in data | MDA, section 9.3, 9.4 |
2/13 | Probabilities | MDA, 2.4 |
2/15 | Conditional probabilities -- Problem Set 3 due | MDA, section 10.2 |
2/18 | Independence of events | MDA, section 10.2 |
2/20 | More on understanding probabilities | MDA, 10.2 |
2/22 | Preparation for WAM visit -- Problem Set 4 due | B |
2/25 | Discrete distributions and pmfs | MDA, 10.3 |
2/27 | Expected value and variance | MDA, 10.4 |
3/1 | Probability densities -- Paper 1 due | MDA, 10.5 |
3/4,6,8 | Spring Break -- no class | MDA, Chapter 10 |
3/11 | Normal distributions | MDA, 10.6 |
3/13 | Z-scores and normal probabilities | MDA, section 10.7 |
3/15 | Chapter 10 Project -- Problem Set 5 due; Journals collected | MDA, section 10.9 |
3/18 | Chapter 10 Project, continued | MDA, section 10.9 |
3/20 | Models of sampling | MDA, section 11.2 |
3/22 | Midterm Exam | MDA, Chapters 9 and 10 |
3/25 | Sampling from normal populations | MDA, section 11.3 |
3/27 | More on sampling from normal populations | MDA, section 11.3 |
3/29 | Central Limit Theorem -- Problem Set 6 due | MDA, section 11.4 |
4/1 | The chi-square distributions (an overview) | MDA, section 11.5 |
4/3 | Hypothesis Tests | MDA, sections 12.1, 12.2 |
4/5 | Tests for means and proportions -- Problem Set 7 due | MDA, section 12.3 |
4/8 | p-values and hypothesis tests | MDA, section 12.4 |
4/10 | Chi-square tests for model fit and independence | MDA, section 12.6 |
4/12 | Chapter 12 Project | MDA, section 12.8 |
4/15 | Spare day -- Paper 2 due | EM, section 11.4 |
4/17 | Humans and nature, another view? | W |
4/19,22,24 | No class -- Easter break and Academic Conference | W |
4/26 | Humans and nature, another view? | W |
4/29 | Final project presentations | |
5/1 | Final project presentations | |
5/3 | Final project presentations | |
5/6 | Semester wrap-up -- Final project papers due |
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