Schedule
Course calendar
The calendar below represents a broad overview of our course schedule. This will be updated on a week-by-week basis. To incorporate this calendar into your personal Macalester Google Calendar, press the +Google Calendar at the bottom.
NOTE: Religious holidays are not marked on the schedule. However, the instructor supports your personal observances. Please reach out to discuss accommodations around holidays.
Day-by-day schedule
The following schedule outlines a more detailed weekly plan to prepare, practice, and explore. Please note:
- Homework, checkpoints, etc are listed on the day that they’re due though you should certainly start these assignments earlier. To this end, be sure to use the calendar above for longer term planning.
- The videos are accessible on YouTube.
- Rmd templates for the activities are linked here and posted on Moodle.
| Before class: prepare | During & after class: practice & explore | |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 (1/20 - 1/21) | ||
| Thurs | Take it easy | 1: Welcome to class! |
| Week 2 (1/24 - 1/28) | ||
| Tues |
Complete the ‘Get up and running’ activity. Checkpoint 1 |
2: RStudio workshop |
| Thurs |
Video: Univariate viz (slides) Checkpoint 2 |
3: Exploring univariate patterns Open this Rmd |
| Week 3 (1/31 - 2/4) | ||
| Tues |
Video: Intro to modeling bivariate trends (slides) Checkpoint 3 |
4: Bivariate relationships – Part 1 |
| Thurs |
Video: Categorical predictors (slides) Checkpoint 4 |
5: Bivariate relationships – Part 2 |
| Week 4 (2/7 - 2/11) | ||
| Tues |
Homework 1 Video 1: Is the model wrong? (slides) Video 2: Is the model fair? (slides) Checkpoint 5 |
6: Model evaluation – Part 1 (Rmd) |
| Thurs |
Video: Is the model strong? (slides) Checkpoint 6 |
7: Model evaluation – Part 2 (Rmd) |
| Week 5 (2/14 - 2/18) | ||
| Tues |
Homework 2 Video: Multivariate modeling principles (slides) Checkpoint 7 |
8: Multivariate modeling principles (Rmd) |
| Thurs |
2 videos on multivariate intepretations: Part 1 and Part 2 (slides) Checkpoint 8 |
9: Covariates & multicollinearity (Rmd) |
| Week 6 (2/21 - 2/25) | ||
| Tues | Homework 3 | |
| Thurs | (Nothing is due) | Quiz 1 |
| Week 7 (2/28 - 3/4) | ||
| Tues |
Video: Interaction (slides) Checkpoint 9 |
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| Thurs | (Nothing is due) | No regular class! Attend & summarize 2 MSCS Capstone talks (~ 1 hour total). |
| Week 8 (3/7 - 3/11) | ||
| Tues |
Homework 4 Video 1: Measuring uncertainty (slides) Video 2: Logistic regression foundations (slides) Checkpoint 10 |
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| Thurs |
Video: Interpreting logistic regression models (slides) Checkpoint 11 |
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| Week 9 (3/21 - 3/25) | ||
| Tues | Nothing is due |
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| Thurs |
Homework 5 Video 1: exploration vs inference (slides) Video 2: Normal probability model (slides) Checkpoint 12 |
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| Week 10 (3/28 - 4/1) | ||
| Tues |
Video 1: Sampling distributions (slides) Video 2: Central Limit Theorem (slides) Checkpoint 13 |
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| Thurs | Nothing is due today. | Quiz 2 |
| Week 11 (4/4 - 4/8) | ||
| Tues |
Video: Confidence intervals (slides) Checkpoint 14 |
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| Thurs |
Homework 6 Video: Confidence intervals recap (slides) Video: Using CIs to test hypotheses (slides) Checkpoint 15 |
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| Week 12 (4/11 - 4/15) | ||
| Tues |
Mini-project Phase 1 Video: Hypothesis testing concepts (17+ minutes) (slides) Checkpoint 16 NOTE: This checkpoint is very important! |
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| Thurs |
Video: Errors in hypothesis testing (slides) Checkpoint 17 |
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| Week 13 (4/18 - 4/22) | ||
| Tues | Nothing! |
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| Thurs |
Mini-project Phase 2 Homework 7 (last one!) |
Work time! |
| Week 14 (4/25 - 4/29) | ||
| Tues | nothing is due (quiz day) | Quiz 3 |
| Thurs | nothing is due (project day) | Work time! |
More OH opportunities: MAX Center support
The MAX Center also has student staff members that can answer questions on STAT 155 content (though are not affiliated with this course). You can find their hours on the website here.