Lecture-03: Describing Distributions

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Topics

  • Inferential Statistics: Mean, Median, Mode, Variance, & Standard Deviation
  • Data Visualization: Exploratory Data Analysis
  • Data Analysis: Describing Distributions
  • Quantitative Research: Getting Organized

Readings

Required

  • Healy, Kieran. 2018. “Keep a Record” In The plain person’s guide to plain text. (Link)
  • OpenIntro: Chapter 1, pages 26-50
  • SSDS: Chapter 8 (Link)
  • R4DS:
    • Print - Chapters 4 through 6 or
    • Web - Chapters 6 through 8 (Link)
  • Wheelan - Chapters 2 and 3

Assignments

Due Before Class

  • From Prior Lecture: Lab 01 - Initial Data Cleaning
  • For Final Project: Memo
  • For This Lecture: Lecture Prep 03 - Interpreting Plots

Due Before Next Class

  • From This Lecture:
    • Lab 02 - Describing Distributions
    • Problem Set 01 - Cleaning and Describing Data
  • For Next Lecture: Lecture Prep 04 - What are the chances?