Because this is the first time the class is being offered, this schedule is subject to change!
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 9/26 | What is Statistics? | A Gentle Introduction to R Join the class Discord! |
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| Wed | 9/27 | Icebreaker and the Wisdom of Crowds | ||
| Thu | 9/28 | What is Probability? |
Monty Hall Problem (video) Leibniz's Error (reading) |
Housing Lottery |
| Fri | 9/29 | Probability and Cognitive Biases |
Cardano and Games of Chance (reading) Linda: Less is More from Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (reading) |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 10/3 | Coincidences |
What a coincidence! (reading) Methods for Studying Coincidences (Diaconis and Mosteller, 1989) |
Intel Processor Bug |
| Wed | 10/4 | Point Processes and Caesar's Last Breath | Glow, Big Glowworm from Bully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay Gould (reading) | |
| Thu | 10/5 | Binomial Coefficients | Random Bits | |
| Fri | 10/6 | The Binomial Model |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 10/10 | Hypothesis Testing |
How lucky is too lucky? (video) Dream Investigation Results (reading) |
Do You Have ESP? |
| Wed | 10/11 | Bob or Tim? | Schedule Interview 1 | |
| Thu | 10/12 | The Hypergeometric Model | Randomization and social affairs: The 1970 draft lottery |
Vietnam War Draft Lottery [Quarto source file] |
| Fri | 10/13 | Practice for Interview 1 |
Mon 10/16: Interview 1
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 10/17 | Multiple Testing | The Problem of Multiple Comparisons (video) |
Install RStudio Should You Guess B? (you will need RStudio to open this file) |
| Wed | 10/18 |
Rock, Paper, Scissors [Quarto file] |
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| Thu | 10/19 | Survey Sampling |
The First Measured Century - The Gallup Poll (video) Who Are The People Who Don't Respond To Polls? (reading) |
Critiquing a Stanford Daily Article |
| Fri | 10/20 | More Survey Sampling |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 10/24 | The Normal Approximation | Political Polling | |
| Wed | 10/25 | Quality Control | ||
| Thu | 10/26 | Insights from the Normal Approximation | Can Robots Replace Humans? | |
| Fri | 10/27 | Sample Size |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 10/31 | The Central Limit Theorem and Inference for a Mean | "Normal body temperature is personal, Stanford Medicine researchers find" (reading) | No Case Study |
| Wed | 11/1 | Sampling Words | ||
| Thu | 11/2 | Confidence Interval for a Mean | Should You Eat Farmed Salmon? | |
| Fri | 11/3 | Confidence Interval for a Proportion |
Mon 11/6: Project 1 Due on Canvas
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 11/7 | No Class - Democracy Day | No Case Study | |
| Wed | 11/8 | Practice for Interview 2 | ||
| Thu | 11/9 | Observational Studies and Randomized Experiments | Ultrasound and Birthweight | |
| Fri | 11/10 | The Story of the Polio Vaccine |
The rollout of the polio vaccine (video) The Power of the Placebo Effect (reading) |
Mon 11/13: Interview 2
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 11/14 | Potential Outcomes Model | Does Cloud Seeding Increase Rainfall? | |
| Wed | 11/15 | Sleep Deprivation and Learning | ||
| Thu | 11/16 | Normal Approximation for the Treatment Effect | Is the IKEA Effect Real? | |
| Fri | 11/17 | Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals for Treatment Effects |
No class!
Fri 12/1: Project 2 Due on Canvas
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 11/28 | Randomized Experiments with Binary Outcomes | Can Automated Reminders Reduce Incarceration? (optional) | |
| Wed | 11/29 | Analyzing the Polio Vaccine Field Trials | "Evaluation of the 1954 Poliomyelitis Vaccine Field Trial" (1955) by Thomas Francis, Jr. | |
| Thu | 11/30 | Fisher's Exact Test | Is Yawning Contagious? (optional) | |
| Fri | 12/1 | Does Gender Influence Promotion Decisions? |
| Date | Class Materials | Supplemental Materials | Case Study | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 12/5 | Data Visualization and the Grammar of Graphics | Chapter 1 on "Data Visualization" from R for Data Science by Wickham et al (reading) | |
| Wed | 12/6 | More on the Grammar of Graphics | Quarto file for section | |
| Thu | 12/7 | Review and Design Principles | "Make a Good Poster" by Stanford Undergraduate Research | |
| Fri | 12/8 | Work on Posters and Get Feedback |
The poster session will take place on 12/14 from 3:30 - 6:30 PM.