Calendar

The calendar below lists the tentative course topics. The dates listed are subject to change at the instructor’s discretion.




Day Date Reading Topic/Slides Materials
  1 Sept. 05 Welcome to EPsy 5261  
Unit 01: Statistical Computation
  2 Sept. 07 Introduction to Coding
  3 Sept. 12 Ch. 1–2 Introduction to R and RStudio
Unit 02: Summarizing and Visualizing Data
  4 Sept. 14 Ch. 4–6 Visualization and Numerical Summaries
  5 Sept. 19 Visualization and Numerical Summaries
  6 Sept. 21 Visualization and Numerical Summaries
Unit 03: Hypothesis Testing
  7 Sept. 26 Ch. 7–8 Estimating Uncertainty
  8 Sept. 28 Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
  9 Oct. 03 Simulation-Based Hypothesis Testing
  10 Oct. 05 Ch. 9–11 Hypothesis Testing with the t-distribution
  11 Oct. 10 Ch. 12 Hypothesis Testing for Proportions
  12 Oct. 12 Ch. 13–14 Hypothesis Testing for Comparing Two Means
  13 Oct. 17 Ch. 15 Hypothesis Testing for Comparing Two Proportions
  14 Oct. 19 Ch. 17 Study Design: Generalizability
  15 Oct. 24 Ch. 18 Study Design: Causal Claims
  16 Oct. 26 NO CLASS—Mental Health Day 🛌 🍷
Unit 04: Effect Size
  17 Oct. 31 Ch. 19–21 Introduction to Confidence Intervals
  18 Nov. 02 Confidence Intervals for a Single Mean
  19 Nov. 07 Confidence Intervals for a Single Proportion
  20 Nov. 09 Confidence Intervals for Comparing Two Means
  20 Nov. 09 Confidence Intervals for Comparing Two Proportions
  21 Nov. 14 More Confidence Intervals
  22 Nov. 16 Ch. 22–23 Standardized Effect Size
  23 Nov. 21 NO CLASS—Mental Health Day 🛌 🍷
  24 Nov. 23 NO CLASS—Thanksgiving Break 🦃 🌽 🥧
Unit 05: Correlation and Regression
  25 Nov. 28 Ch. 24 Introduction to Correlation
  26 Nov. 30 Ch. 25 Introduction to Simple Linear Regression
  27 Dec. 05 Ch. 26 Simple Linear Regression (Continued)
  28 Dec. 07 Ch. 27 Simple Linear Regression (Continued)
  29 Dec. 12 TBD Review Day