Lecture-04: Probability

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Topics

• Inferential Statistics: Probability and Bayes’ Theorem

Readings

Required

• OpenIntro: Chapter 2, pages 76-102
• Silver, S. (2012). Less and Less and Less Wrong. In The Signal and the Noise (pp. 232-261). New York, NY: Penguin Books. (Electronic Reserves)
• Wheelan: Chapters 5, 5.5, and 6

Assignments

Due Before Class

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

Due Before Next Class

• For This Lecture: Lab 03 - Probability
• For Next Lecture: Lecture Prep 05 - The Normal Approximation