Tentative Course Outline

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Class	Date	Topic	Assigned Readings (Sokal and Rohlf)	Lecture Notes	Homework Assignments and Answers	Data Files
1	9/24	Introduction Descriptive Statistics	Chapters 1-4	Class_1.pdf		IIT Solid Waste Data
2	10/1	Random Variables and Distributions	Chapter 5-6	Class_2.pdf	Problem Set 2 (pdf)	Arsenic Data (Stata)
3	10/8	Sampling and Estimation	Chapter 7	Class_3.pdf	Problem_Set_3.pdf
4	10/15	ANOVA	Chapter 8 Ch. 9 (9.1 - 9.7),	Class_4.pdf	Problem_Set 4.pdf	Data for Box 9.1 (Stata)
5	10/22	ANOVA	Chapter 11 (11.1-11.6)	Class_5.pdf	Problem Set 5 (note this will be due on 11/5)	Giardia Data Macak Data
	10/29	MIDTERM EXAM
6	11/5	ANOVA	Chapter 13	Class_6.pdf	Problem Set 6	Data for Box 13-1
7	11/12	Linear Regression	Chapter 14 (14.1-14.8; 14.11-14.12) Chapter 15 (15.1-15.5)	Class7.pdf	Problem Set 7	Engine Data Nattress Data Horowitz Data
8	11/19	Multiple Linear Regression	Chapter 16 (16.1-16.2; 16.5-16.6)	Class8.pdf	Problem Set 8	Air Pollution Data Bitter Data Problem 14.12 Data
9	12/3	Count Data	Chapter 17 (17.1-17.2; 17.4)	Class9.pdf		randnum.dta allen.dta allen2.dta 2Distributions.dta
FINALS WEEK	12/10	FINAL EXAM		take home final (pdf)		Data files for the take home portion anova.dta PCB.dta