This page contains an outline of the topics, content, and assignments for the semester. Note that this schedule may be updated as the semester progresses, with all changes documented here.

Prepare Slides AE Labs HW Exam Project
Week 01 Mon, Aug 23 Welcome to STA 210!
Wed, Aug 25 Meet the Toolkit
Exploring multivariable relationships
Thu, Aug 26 Lab 01: Getting Started with R!
Week 02 Mon, Aug 30 Simple linear regression (SLR)
Wed, Sep 01 SLR: Inference for coefficients
SLR: Foundation for inference
Thu, Sep 02 Lab 02: Simple linear regression
Week 03 Mon, Sep 06 SLR: Conditions
Wed, Sep 08 SLR: Prediction
HW 01 released
Thu, Sep 09 Lab: Work on HW 01
Week 04 Mon, Sep 13 SLR: Partitioning variability
Wed, Sep 15 SLR: Model diagnostics
HW 02 released
Thu, Sep 16 Lab 03: Coffee ratings
Week 05 Mon, Sep 20 ANOVA
Mutliple comparisons
Wed, Sep 22 Exam 01 review
Thu, Sep 23 NO LAB: Work on Exam 01
Exam 01 released
Week 06 Mon, Sep 27 Multiple linear regression (MLR)
MLR: Inference
Wed, Sep 29 MLR: Types of predictors
Thu, Sep 30 Lab 04: ANOVA with Palmer Penguins
Week 07 Mon, Oct 04 NO CLASS: Fall break
Wed, Oct 06 MLR: Transforming the response variable
HW 03 released
Thu, Oct 07 Lab: Project topic ideas
Week 08 Mon, Oct 11 Variable transformations cont’d
Comparing models
Project topic ideas due
Wed, Oct 13 MLR: Model selection
Thu, Oct 14 Lab 05: MLR with candy rankings
Week 09 Mon, Oct 18 MLR: Model conditions & diagnostics
Wed, Oct 20 Exam 02 review
Thu, Oct 21 NO LAB: Work on Exam 02
Exam 02 released
Week 10 Mon, Oct 25 Probabilities & odds
Wed, Oct 27 Odds ratios
Thu, Oct 28 Lab: Model diagnostics activity
Week 11 Mon, Nov 01 Logistic regression: Inference
Wed, Nov 03 Logistic regression: Prediction
Logistic regression: Conditions
HW 04 released
Thu, Nov 04 Lab 06: Logistic regression
Week 12 Mon, Nov 08 Multinomial logistic regression
Wed, Nov 10 Multinomial logistic regression
Thu, Nov 11 Lab 07: Multinomial logistic regression
Week 13 Mon, Nov 15 Exam 03 Review
Tue, Nov 16 Project draft due in GitHub
Wed, Nov 17 NO LECTURE: Project Peer Review
Thu, Nov 18 NO LAB: Work on Exam 03
Exam 03 released
Week 14 Mon, Nov 22 Project meetings
Wed, Nov 24 NO LECTURE: Thanksgiving break
Thu, Nov 25 NO LAB: Thanksgiving break
Week 15 Mon, Nov 29 Writing reports and presentations in R Markdown
Wed, Dec 01 Model validation
Thu, Dec 02 Project work day
Fri, Dec 03 Statistics experience due
Project written report due (accepted until Dec 05)
Exam period Thu, Dec 09 Video presentation, slides, & repo due
Sat, Dec 11 Video comments due