We shall cover chapters 1 through 8 of the textbook (the entire Queen's University Custom Edition), with a few omissions posted below. The following outline is an approximate timeline of when we'll cover the various material; some small variation may occur from week to week.

The "applets" linked below give you an interactive demonstration of the concents covered in the course material.

Outline and Schedule

The following chapters are for the 2016 textbook edition.
View 2012 chapter numbers instead.

The following chapters are for the 2012 textbook edition.
View 2016 chapter numbers instead.

Week and Topic Chapter (2012e) 2016? Chapter (2016e) 2012? Applets Additional Material
1: Graphs and sample statistics 1.1-1.2 1.1-1.3 onevar, meanmedian summation, pie chart comic
2: normal densities, scatter plots, correlation, two-way tables 1.3, 2.1–2.2, 2.5 1.4, 2.1–2.2, 2.5 normalcurve, twovar mode, weighted mean, grouped data, uniform density, covariance
3: data sources, samples, experiments 3 3 randomsample BC pre-election poll, post-election explanation
4: probability 4.1–4.2, 5.1–5.2 4.1–4.3 probability summation, variance, CLT example
5: random variables; (exercise 1 due) 4.3 4.4–4.5 simulation, lawoflargenumbers, clt_samplemean
6: binomial distribution; (midterm 1) 5.3 5.1 simulation, clt_binomial
7: sampling distributions 4.4 5.3, 6.1 confidenceinterval, statsig Adding random variables slides (Central Limit Theorem)
8: inference 6 6.2–6.3 reasoning, statsig, pvalue, power XKCD comic on p=0.05, Notes on hypothesis testing, Sampling distribution graphs
9: (exercise 2 due); inference (cont'd) 6 6.4–6.5
10: inference for means; (midterm 2) 7 7 ciprop
11: inference for proportions 8 8 correlationregression, twovar Fitted values & residuals graphs
12: least-squares regression 2.3–2.4 2.3–2.4 Regression notes

Omissions

The material from the following sections of the textbook will not be covered in lectures or on the assignments/tests.

The following chapters are for the 2016 textbook edition.
View 2012 chapter numbers instead.

The following chapters are for the 2012 textbook edition.
View 2016 chapter numbers instead.

Topic Pages (2012e) 2016? Pages (2016e) 2012?
Assessing Normality 54–57 51–54
Poisson distributions 319–324 (section 5.4) 267–274 (section 5.2)
BEYOND THE BASICS: The Bootstrap 346–347 372–373
Option topics in comparing distributions 439–445 (section 7.3)
BEYOND THE BASICS: Relative Risk 480–481 447–448

Academic Integrity

You are expected and required to conduct yourself with academic integrity in this course (and all others at Queen's). See the Academic Integrity page.

Grades, Assignments, Tests, etc.

See the Assignments, Tests & Grades page.