Schedule

Classes are held in RE 102 at 11:25 AM on Tuesdays and Thursdays

January

Week Date Topic Slides
1 Tue Jan 13 Introductory Examples, Course Overview Introduction and Probability Review
Thu Jan 15 Introductory Examples, Key Probability Concepts, Important Distributions
Fri Jan 16 Diagnostic Survey Due
2 Tue Jan 20 Important Distributions, Conditional Probability
Thu Jan 22 Conditional Probability, Convergence, Central Limit Theorem
3 Tue Jan 27 Central Limit Theorem, Chebyshev’s Inequality, Summary Statistics Estimation and Confidence Intervals
Thu Jan 29 Summary Statistics, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Bias
Fri Jan 30 Assignment 2 Due

February

Week Date Topic Slides
4 Tue Feb 3 Distributions of estimators
Thu Feb 5 Confidence intervals
5 Tue Feb 10 Confidence intervals for means
Thu Feb 12 Confidence intervals for variances, Bootstrap confidence intervals
Fri Feb 13 Assignment 3 Due
6 Tue Feb 17 Introduction to hypothesis testing Hypothesis Testing
Thu Feb 19 Test 1 on Probability Review, Estimators, & Confidence Intervals for Means
7 Tue Feb 24 Hypothesis testing framework and examples
Thu Feb 26 Hypothesis testing examples

March

Week Date Topic Slides
8 Tue Mar 3 Hypothesis testing examples, likelihood ratio tests
Thu Mar 5 Likelihood ratio tests
Fri Mar 6 Project Submission Due
9 Tue Mar 10 Linear models Linear Models
Thu Mar 12 Ordinary least squares
Fri Mar 13 Assignment 4 Due
Tue Mar 17 No Class, Spring Break
Thu Mar 19 No Class, Spring Break
10 Tue Mar 24 Ordinary least squares and inference
Thu Mar 26 Ordinary least squares inference and diagnostics
11 Tue Mar 31 Ordinary least squares diagnostics

April

Week Date Topic Slides
Thu Apr 2
12 Tue Apr 7
Thu Apr 9 Test 2 on Confidence Intervals for Variance, Hypothesis Testing, and Ordinary Least Squares Through Inference
Fri Apr 10 Assignment 5 Due
13 Tue Apr 14
Thu Apr 16
14 Mon Apr 20 Project Presentation in Galvin Tower 14th Floor West Side Conference Room
Tue Apr 21 Project Presentation in Galvin Tower 14th Floor West Side Conference Room
Wed Apr 22 Project Presentation in Galvin Tower 14th Floor West Side Conference Room
Thu Apr 23
15 Tue Apr 28
Thu Apr 30

May

Week Date Topic Slides
16 Mon May 4 Final Exam in PH 108