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(d) The CRMDA has some “remote desktop accessible” Microsoft Windows workstations. You can<br />
use a remote desktop client program to access those systems and try them out. We are improving<br />
the documentation at (http://quant.ku.edu/mw1).<br />
2. Jan 19. Describing One Variable (primarily numeric variables)<br />
Read: Verzani, Ch. 1 & 2, Fox, Chapter 3.1<br />
Priorities: histogram, kernel density, mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance, scaling<br />
Lecture: /stat/Descriptive/CentralTendencyAndDispersion<br />
http://pj.freefaculty.<strong>org</strong>/guides/stat/Descriptive/CentralTendencyAndDispersion/CentralTendencyAndDi<br />
pdf<br />
3. Jan 24. Describing Two Variables<br />
Read: Verzani, Ch. 3, Fox, Chapter 3.2, 3.3<br />
Priorities: scatterplot, barplot, boxplot, correlation<br />
Lecture: /stat/Descriptive/ScatterBoxBarPlots<br />
http://pj.freefaculty.<strong>org</strong>/guides/stat/Descriptive/ScatterBoxBarPlots<br />
4. Jan 26. Regression Survey: The “Big Picture” For This Course<br />
Read: Fox, Ch. 2<br />
Math Refresher: If you have f<strong>org</strong>otten college algebra, please consider the Emergency Math Review<br />
of material in Stuff Worth Knowing. I’d suggest Chapter 10 “Summation Signs” & 11 “Curves in<br />
Theory”.<br />
Lecture: stat/Regression/Overview<br />
http://pj.freefaculty.<strong>org</strong>/guides/stat/Regression/Overview/Regression-Overview-Lecture.pdf<br />
5. Jan 31. Statistical Distributions<br />
Read: Verzani, Chapter 5 & 6<br />
<strong>Paul</strong> E. <strong>Johnson</strong>, “Distribution Overview: Probability by the Seat of the Pants,” http://pj.freefaculty.<br />
<strong>org</strong>/guides/stat/Distributions/DistributionOverview/DistributionReview.pdf<br />
an essay I have created just for this purpose!<br />
Browse through this: Regress+ Compendium of Statistical Distributions http://www.causascientia.<br />
<strong>org</strong>/math_stat/Dists/Compendium.pdf<br />
Math Refresher: If you never took calculus–or f<strong>org</strong>ot–I suggest you review “Integrals are not Scarey”<br />
http://pj.freefaculty.<strong>org</strong>/guides/stat/Math/Integrals/Integrals-guide.pdf. There is<br />
a more extended discussion of integrals in Stuff Worth Knowing.<br />
Lecture: /stat/Distributions/DistributionOverview/ http://pj.freefaculty.<strong>org</strong>/guides/stat/Distributions/<br />
DistributionOverview/DistributionReview-1-lecture.pdf<br />
6. Feb 2. Statistical Distributions (continued): Using R to Explore Distributions:<br />
Read: Catch up on what I assigned before.<br />
Lecture: /Rcourse/rRandomVariables<br />
http://pj.freefaculty.<strong>org</strong>/guides/Rcourse/rRandomVariables/rRandomVariables.pdf<br />
7. Feb 7. Central Limit Theorem and Sampling Distributions<br />
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