Assignments and grading :

• ~ 8 problem sets (35%) ( lowest score will be dropped)
• article review (5%)
• midterm (15%)
• final (20%)
• mini-project (20%)
• in-class participation (5%)

Problem sets are typically due Thursdays before class (9:00 am) and can be submitted either electronically via cTools or on paper in class. If submitting electronically, all code, plots, etc. must be included in a single PDF file.

Late policy: Assignments may be submitted up to 2 days after they are due (e.g. Saturday at midnight if the assignment was due on Thursday) and suffer a 10% penalty. No late assignments will be accepted past this point.

	Problem sets
	PS 1 due 9/14 Descriptive statistics with R PS 2 due 9/21 Probability and discrete distributions PS 3 due 9/28 Discrete and continuous distributions PS 4 due 10/5 Experiments and observations PS 5 due 10/12 Inference, outliers PS 6 due 10/26 t-tests PS 7 due 11/2 Simple linear regression and correlation due 11/9 article review PS 8 due 11/21 Analysis of variance PS 9 due 11/28 Tabular data