| wk of | Tuesday |
Thursday |
| 9/1 | #0: Introduction and Advising | No Class--FY Orientation |
| 9/8 | #1: What's in the News? "Chance Encounter" paper due |
#2: Shapes of Distributions |
| 9/15 | #3: 1 in 7 New Hampshire
Women Raped? "Chance Encounter" revision due |
#4: Populations and Samples. Sampling Error. |
| 9/22 | #5: Interpreting Polls |
#6: Poll wrap-up. Writing samples. |
| 9/29 | #7: Benford's Law
"Polling" paper due |
#8: Coin Tossing Activity. Peer Writing Review Workshop. |
| 10/6 | #9: US News College Ranks | #10: Average Class Size "Polling" paper rewrite due |
| 10/13 | #11: Mean, Standard Deviation and the Bell Curve | No Class--Fall Break |
| 10/20 | #12: CEOs and Golf
Handicaps (Correlation) |
#13: "Star Mates" (Regression to the Mean) |
| 10/27 | #14:
Do daughters cause divorce?! "College Ranks" paper due |
#15:
Data Graphics in the Press |
| 11/3 | #16:
Data Graphics, cont. |
#17:
An Error Free Death Penalty? Winter Term Registration--7:00 AM!! |
| 11/10 | #18:
Graphics Paper: Peer Review Workshop |
#19:
Two-Way Tables Simpson's Paradox |
| 11/17 | #20:
Are 7-Game World Series too Common? |
#21:
Chi Square Goodness of Fit Test "Letter to the Editor" due |
| 11/24 | #22: China's One-Child Policy Final paper proposal due |
No Class--Thanksgiving |
| 12/1 | #23:
The Monty Hall Problem
|
#24: Rapid HIV Tests |