October 2, 2017

Today

Lecture

  • Course overview
  • Warming up
  • Probabilities
  • Probability distributions
  • Cooling down

Tutorial

  • R Markdown mini-tutorial
  • Assignment 1

Schedule

Date Time Subject Lecturer
2/10 9-13 Probability Abe & Alexander
4/10 9-13 Inference Abe & Alexander
6/10 9-13 Validity Abe & Alexander
9/10 9-13 Regression Abe & Alexander
10-13/10 Self-study
11/10 9-11 Question time Abe & Alexander
16/10 9-13 Exam

Goals

Refreshment

  • first- and second-year statistics
  • but different!

Foundation

  • play with fundamental concepts
  • create a basis for independent learning
  • recognize statistical terminology

Intuition

  • think like a statistician
  • avoid common pitfalls and fallacies

Assessment

Assignments

Exam

  • 1 hour
  • 2 parts: pen&paper and R
  • 2/3 of grade Basic Skills in Statistics

Grade must be ≥ 4

Literature

Teaching assistant

Sophie Berkhout

Syllabus

Dunglish