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Required Readings

Title Author Journal Year Quiz
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: An Empirical Assessment of Quantitative Colormaps Yang Liu & Jeffrey Heer Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings 2018 08/31
Science and Statistics George Box Journal of the American Statistical Association 1976 09/30


Exam

It’ll be the full 80 minutes. You may bring a notecard and a calculator. If you do not have a calculator you may leave your answer unsimplified. Eg predicted price = $ e^2.19.

Exam Study Guide Date
Exam 1 Study Guide Sept 18th
Exam 2 - TBD
Final - December 4th at 1pm


Syllabus

Welcome to the course website for Math 104! To begin, you can find the course syllabus linked below:

You can locate course content by scrolling, or by using the outline in the upper left. Please note: material will not be posted until we’ve reached that point in the course.




Schedule

Week 1 (Introduction)

Date Lecture Lab Suggested Reading
Aug 17 Basics of Statistics + 5 number summary
Aug 19 5 Num. Summary + Boxplots
Aug 21 Boxplots and Histograms

Week 2 (Histograms and Numeric Summaries)

Date Lecture HW Due Other
Aug 24 Histograms and Numeric Summaries HW 1 due 08/28 at 4:00pm at my office door (a drop off box/folder will be made for it) HW 1 solutions
Aug 26 Scatterplots and Correlation Histogram Practice Worksheet Histogram Practice Solutons
Aug 28 Scatterplots and Correlation Histogram, Boxplot, Scatterplot Practice Worksheet Solutions

Week 3 (Correlations and Barplots)

Date Lecture HW Due Suggested Reading
Aug 31 Quiz Day and Correlations HW 2 due at 4pm on Sept 4 at my office (RSS 333) HW 2 Solutionw
Sept 2 Barplots
Sept 4 Probability

Week 4 (Probability and Normal)

Date Lecture HW Due Suggested Reading
Sept 7 Finish Probability HW due 4pm on Friday Sept 11 HW 3 Solutions
Sept 9 Probability Continued + Dice Activity
Sept 11 Normality if time Probability Practice Practice Solutions


Week 5 (Normality and Exam)

Date Lecture HW Due Suggested Reading
Sept 14th Normality Continued NA
Sept 16th Review for Exam
Sept 18th Exam


Week 6 (Sampling Distributions)

Date Lecture HW Due Useful Stuff
Sept 21st Practice Normal and Prep for Sampling Dists HW 4 due Friday Sept. 25th. link to Normal Dist. Calculator
Sept 23rd Finish Sampling Distributions and introduce Permutation Testing
Sept 25th Practice Permutation Tests and beging Z-tests


Week 7 (Z-tests and Confidence Intervals)

Date Lecture HW Due Useful Stuff
Sept 28 Z-tests continued HW 5 due Friday at 4pm at my office worksheet on hypothesis statements
worksheet on hypothesis statements solutions