Note: This page shows an overview of the topics and assignments in this course. Click on the tab for each week to see a detailed view of the readings, videos, slides, and other information.

This schedule may be updated as the semester progresses, with all changes documented here. Dates for the quizzes will not be changed.

Slides Labs HW Quiz Project
Week 01 Mon, Aug 17 Welcome to STA 210!
Wed, Aug 19 Meet the toolkit
Motivating regression
Thu, Aug 20 Lab 01: Practice with R
UNIT 01 CONTINUOUS RESPONSE VARIABLES
Week 02 Mon, Aug 24 Simple linear regression (SLR)
Wed, Aug 26 SLR: Foundation
SLR: Inference
HW 01 assigned
Thu, Aug 27 Lab 02: SLR
Week 03 Mon, Aug 31 SLR: Conditions
SLR: Prediction
Wed, Sep 02 SLR: Partitioning variability
HW 02 assigned
Thu, Sep 03 Lab 03: Airbnbs in Nashville, TN
Week 04 Mon, Sep 07 Comparing means with ANOVA
Wed, Sep 09 Multiple linear regression (MLR)
Thu, Sep 10 No Lab: Take Quiz 01
Fri, Sep 11 Quiz 01 due
Week 05 Mon, Sep 14 MLR: Inference
Wed, Sep 16 MLR: Types of predictors
HW 03 assigned
Thu, Sep 17 Lab 04: Candy!
Week 06 Mon, Sep 21 Variable Transformations
Wed, Sep 23 Model comparison
HW 04 assigned
Thu, Sep 24 Lab 05: Stockpiling toilet paper
Week 07 Mon, Sep 28 MLR: Model selection
Wed, Sep 30 MLR: Conditions
MLR: Model diagnostics
Thu, Oct 01 No lab: Take Quiz 02
Fri, Oct 02 Quiz 02 due
UNIT 02 CATEGORICAL RESPONSE VARIABLES
Week 08 Mon, Oct 05 Logistic: Odds + probabilities
Wed, Oct 07 Logistic: Odds ratios
Thu, Oct 08 Lab: Project proposal work day
Fri, Oct 09 Projet proposal due
Week 09 Mon, Oct 12 Statistics experience
Wed, Oct 14 Logistic regression: Inference
HW 05 assigned
Thu, Oct 15 Lab 06: Logistic regression
Week 10 Mon, Oct 19 Logistic regression: Prediction
Wed, Oct 21 Logistic regression: Conditions
Thu, Oct 22 No lab: Take Quiz 03
Quiz 03 assigned
Fri, Oct 23 Quiz 03 due
Week 11 Mon, Oct 26 Multinomial logistic regression
Wed, Oct 28 Multinomial logistic regression, Pt2
Draft report due
Thu, Oct 29 Lab: Project peer review
UNIT 03 LOOKING AHEAD
Week 12 Mon, Nov 02 Log-linear models
Wed, Nov 04 Statistics experience
Thu, Nov 05 No Lab: Take Quiz 04
Quiz 04 assigned
Peer review due
Sun, Nov 08 Quiz 04 due
Week 13 Mon, Nov 09 Dealing with missing data
Wed, Nov 11 Communicating results
Thu, Nov 12 Lab: Project work day
Week 14 Mon, Nov 16 Project meetings
Tue, Nov 17 Final report due
Fri, Nov 20 Video + slides + repo due
Week 15 Sun, Nov 22 Presentation comments due