Week
Date
Topic
Reading
Lab Exercise
24-Aug
1
26
Introduction
Ch. 1
28
Pre-Test Answers
Lab 1. Intro to Stata & Excel
31
Visualizing Data
Ch. 2
2
2-Sep
Descriptive Statistics
4
Lab 2. Visualizing Data
7
No class
3
9
ESDA & Time Series
Ch. 3
11
Lab 3. Descriptive Statistics
14
Correlation
Ch. 4
4
16
18
Regression
Lab 4. Correlation
21
5
23
25
Exam 1 (bring your calculator)
Lab 5. Regression
28
Probability
Ch. 5.1
6
30
2-Oct
Variable Distributions
Ch. 5.2-5.6
Lab 6. Probability
5
7
7
9
Sampling
Ch. 6
Lab 7. Variable Distributions
12
8
14
Estimation
Ch. 7
16
Lab 8. Sampling/CLT
19
Hypothesis Testing
Ch. 8
9
21
23
Lab 9. Confidence Intervals
26
Two Sample Tests
Ch. 9
10
28
30
Exam 2
Lab 10. Hypothesis Testing
2-Nov
11
4
6
Regression Inference
Ch. 12
Lab 11. Two Sample Tests
9
12
11
Regression Diagnostics
13
Multiple Regression
Ch. 13
Lab 12: Regression Inference
16
13
18
Spatial Analysis
Ch. 14
20
Lab 13: Multiple Regression
23
Fall Break/
14
25
Thanksgiving
27
No classes
30
15
2-Dec
4
Point Patterns
Lab 14: Spatial Analysis
7
Nonparametric Tests
Section 10.1
16
9
Review
11
More review
No new lab, optional review with Bryan
12
Final Exam, 4:30-7:00pm