Week/Date

Course Theme

Content and Reading Assignment

Homework

Estimated time devoted to coursework per week

1. Sep 20

Introduction

Chapter 1

2. Sep 27

Describing Data: Graphical Presentations

Chapter 2

HW1

5

3. Oct 4

Describing Data: Numerical Measures/ Displaying/Exploring Data

Chapter 3, 4

HW2

5

4. Oct 11

Probability Concepts

Chapter 5

HW3

5

5. Oct 18

Probability Concepts

Chapter 5

HW3

5

6. Oct 25

R Programming

R Chapter 1

HW4

5

7. Nov 1

Midterm

Chapter 1-5

5

8. Nov 8

Discrete probability distributions

Chapter 6

HW5

5

9. Nov 15

Continuous probability distributions

Chapter 7

HW6

5

10. Nov 22

Continuous probability distributions

Chapter 7

HW6

5

11. Nov 29

Sampling methods and the Central Limit Theorem

Chapter 8

HW7

5

12. Dec 6

Estimation and confidence intervals

Chapter 9

HW8

5

13. Dec 13

Hypotheses Testing

Chapter 10

HW9

5

14. Dec 20

Hypotheses Testing

Chapter 10

HW9

5

15. Dec 27

R Programming

R Chapter 2

HW10

5

16. Jan 3

Final

Chapter 6-10

5

17. Jan 10

Review

Review

HW1-HW10

5

18. Jan 17

Review

Review

HW1-HW10

5