Data Analysis (Stat 206)
Brad Hartlaub
Spring 2022
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Math Science Skills Center
- Abby McCarty will be available to help you on Sunday from 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm and Thursday from 8:00 pm until 10:00 pm.
Daily Agendas
- January 17
- January 19
- January 21
- January 24
- January 26
- January 28
- January 31
- February 2
- February 4 - Quiz #1 (covering Chapters 0, 1, and 2) - You may use one 8.5"x11" sheet of notes, our course web page, our R scripts, our R Markdown files, and an R script or R Markdown file that you create during the quiz.
- February 7
- February 9
- February 11
- February 14
- February 16
- February 18 - Quiz #2 (covering Sections 2.4, 2.5, and Chapter 3) - You may use one 8.5"x11" sheet of notes, our course web page, our R scripts, our R Markdown files, and an R script or R Markdown file that you create during the quiz.
- February 21
- February 23
- February 25 - R Lab for Unit A projects
- February 28 - Unit A Presentations (1/2 of the class)
- Elijah - overfitting
- Chris and Will - MLB salary models
- Cathy and Jess - Education models
- Khue - Movie models
- Anthony and Nick - NBA models
- March 2 - Unit A Presentations (the other 1/2 of the class)
- Beimeng and Katie - NHL models
- Caitlyn and Tori - Premier League models
- Viet - Survey models
- Noah and Vaughn - NBA models
- Cem - Car price models
- March 4 - Exam #1 covering Chapters 0-4. You may use five 8.5"x11" sheets of notes, our course web page, our R scripts, our R Markdown files, and an R script or R Markdown file that you create during the exam.
- March 21
- March 23
- March 25
- March 28
- March 30
- April 1 - Quiz #3 (covering the material in Chapters 5 and 6) - You may use two 8.5"x11" sheet of notes, our course web page, our R scripts, our R Markdown files, and an R script or R Markdown file that you create during the quiz.
- April 4
- April 6 - Problem Session and Rlab
- April 8 - Problem Session and Rlab
- April 11
- April 13 - Unit B Presentations
- Caitlyn, Khue, and Tori - ANOVA and ANCOVA models for NHL data
- Elijah Day - ANOVA and ANCOVA models for beer tasting
- April 15 - Unit B Presentations
- Viet - ANOVA and ANCOVA models for happiness and well being
- Chris - ANOVA and ANCOVA models for flight prices
- Cem - ANOVA and ANCOVA models for video game sales
- April 18
- Katie and Bemeng - ANOVA and ANCOVA models for NHL data
- Anthorny and Nick - ANOVA and ANCOVA models for concussion data
- Noah and Vaughn - ANOVA and ANCOVA models for NCAA basketball
- April 20
- Cathy and Jess - ANOVA and ANCOVA models for bmi data
- April 22 - Complete Chapter 9 ppt and RLAB on logistic regression - see Murder Mystery Handout
- April 25
- April 27
- April 29 - Exam #2 covering Chapters 5-9. You may use five 8.5"x11" sheets of notes, our course web page, our R scripts, our R Markdown files, and an R script or R Markdown file that you create during the exam.
- May 2 - Lab time for final projects
- May 4 - Lab time for final projects
- May 6 - Individual consulations and lab time for final projects
- May 11 - Your final projects must be uploaded to your Google Drive HW folder before 1:30 PM
Homework Assignments
- Your solutions must be submitted electronically to your Google Drive folder. You must submit a PDF of your solutions. For example, the name of the file for the first homework assignment should be HW1-yourname.PDF
- HW #1 - due on Wednesday, January 26
- HW #2 - due on Wednesday, February 2
- HW #3 - due on Monday, February 7
- HW #4 - due on Wednesday, February 15
- HW #5 - due on Wednesday, March 2
- Unit A Project Proposal - In your Unit A project, you should compare and contrast at least three possible models for a response variable of interest. After you describe the problem of interest and your data, you should use the choose, fit, assess, and use steps to make appropriate inferences and comparisons. Your analysis should include at least one formal inference (hypothesis test) and appropriate confidence intervals or prediction intervals. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Your proposal should be sent to me via email and include a short statement about your problem of interest, a description of your data, and a proposed date for your presentation to the class. Presentations will begin on Monday, February 28.
- HW #6 - due on Wednesday, March 30
- HW #7 - due on Monday, April 4
- HW #8 - due on Monday, April 11
- Unit B project proposal - due before Wednesday, April 6 - Your group presentation should compare and contrast ANOVA or ANCOVA models we have discussed in class to a real data set or data from an experiment of interest to you. After you describe the problem of interest and your data, you should use the choose, fit, assess, and use steps to make appropriate inferences and comparisons. Your analysis should include formal inferences (hypothesis tests) and appropriate multiple comparisons procedures. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Please send me your proposals via email and include the names of the people in your group and a preferred date for your presentation (on or before April 15, if possible).
- HW #9 - due on Wednesday, April 27
Sample Exams
- See !Exam and Quiz Samples on our Google Drive folder.
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