Assignments and grading :

• ~ 9 problem sets (25%) (lowest score will be dropped)
• article review (5%)
• midterm (20%)
• final (25%)
• mini-project (20%)
• in-class & cTools participation (5%)

Problem sets are typically due Tuesdays before class (9:00 am) and should be submitted either electronically via cTools.
All work, including 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. Thursday at midnight if the assignment was due on Tuesday) and suffer a 10% penalty. No late assignments will be accepted past this point.

Assignments & exams

PS 1 due 1/15 Descriptive statistics with R PS 2 due 1/22 Probability and discrete distributions PS 3 due 1/29 Discrete and continuous distributions PS 4 due 2/5 Experiments and observations PS 5 due 2/12 Inference, outliers PS 6 due 2/19 t-tests 2/21 midterm 3/4 project progress report PS 7 due 3/11 Simple linear regression and correlation due 3/18 article review PS 8 due 3/25 Analysis of variance PS 9 due 4/1 Tabular data due 4/8 project final report due 4/18 take-home final