Week 8: The Poisson distribution
Wed, Mar 28, 2018Understanding the Poisson distribution and testing randomness.
Week 7: Goodness of fit
Wed, Mar 14, 2018Understanding goodness of fit. Working with the chi^2 distribution as a null distribution for goodness-of-fit tests.
Week 6: Analyzing proportions
Wed, Mar 7, 2018Understanding and working with the binomial distribution and statistical power.
Week 5: Hypothesis testing
Wed, Feb 28, 2018Simulations, probability calculations and a little bit of hypothesis testing.
Week 4: Probability
Wed, Feb 21, 2018Calculating probabilities by hand. Deriving the expectation and variance of random variables.
Week 3: Sampling distributions
Wed, Feb 14, 2018Computing sampling distributions. Quantifying the uncertainty of estimates (standard error and confidence intervals).
Week 2: Summary statistics
Wed, Feb 7, 2018Calculating and visualizing summary statistics (mean, median, standard deviation, interquartile range). Simulating data.