HRP 259, Fall 2009

Instructor:

Kristin Sainani

kcobb@stanford.edu

www.stanford.edu/~kcobb

Office: T211, HRP Redwood Building

Office Hour: 1-2pm Monday

TA

Richard Chiu

richard2@stanford.edu

Office Hour: 10:30-11:30am Wed., T214 HRP Redwood Building

Schedule:

MW 4:15-5:45pm in CCSR 4105

LAB DAYS (M206): Oct. 21, 28; Nov. 4, 11, 18

Syllabus:

• Syllabus

Lectures:

• September 21, 2009: Math Review
• Sept. 23, 2009: Looking at Data
• Sept. 28, 2009: Permutations and Combinations
• Sept. 30, 2009: Conditional Probability
• Oct. 5, 2009: Probability Distributions
• Oct. 7, 2009: Discrete Distributions: the binomial
• Oct. 12, 2009: The Normal Distribution
• Oct. 14, 2009: Statistical Inference
• Oct. 19, 2009: One sample tests
• Oct. 26, 2009: Pitfalls of hypothesis testing
• Nov. 2, 2009: Two-sample Tests I
• Nov. 9, 2009: Two-sample Tests II
• Nov. 16, 2009: More than two samples
• Nov. 30, 2009: Linear regression

Homework:

• H1, due Wed. Sept. 23
• H2, due Mon. Sept. 28
• H3, due Wed. Sept. 30
• H4, due Mon. Oct. 5
• H5, due Wed. Oct. 7
• H6, due Mon. Oct. 12
• H7, due Wed. Oct. 14
• H8, due Mon. Oct. 19
• H9, due Wed. Oct. 21
• H10, due Mon. Nov. 2
• H11, due Wed. Nov. 4
• H12, due Wed. Nov. 11
• H13, due Mon. Nov. 16
• H14, due Wed. Nov. 18
• H15, due Wed. Dec. 2

Labs:

• Oct. 21, 2009: Intro. to SAS and Central Limit Theorem
• Oct. 28, 2009: Intro. to data in SAS; analyzing 2x2 tables
• Data for Lab 2
• Nov. 4, 2009: Ttests and non-parametric equivalents
• Data for Lab 3
• Nov. 12, 2009: linear regression and ANOVA
• Data for Lab 4
• Nov. 18, 2009: linear regression model building
• Data for Lab 5

Extras:

• A caution on interpreting odds ratios (letter)
• Monty Hall problem
• Monty Hall problem in the New York Times
• Dice exercise
• Extra probability problems (optional)
• Extra probability answers
• P-value column
• Statistical Roadmap for two-sample tests
• Handy Reference Sheet I (probability)
• Handy Reference Sheet II (statistics)
• Extra practice problems for final exam
• Answers to extra practice problems

Answers:

• H1, Answer Key
• H2, Answer Key
• H3, Answer Key
• H4, Answer Key
• H5, Answer Key
• H6, Answer Key
• H7, Answer Key
• H8, Answer Key
• H9, Answer Key
• H10, Answer Key
• H11, Answer Key
• H12, Answer Key
• H13, Answer Key
• H14, Answer Key
• H15, Answer Key

Exams:

• Midterm Exam, due Oct. 28