Course Calendar
All class sessions will be held from 1:00 to 2:15 PM in Room E321-323 on the third floor of the Robbins building at CWRU’s School of Medicine.
Readings come from:
- Spiegelhalter: David Spiegelhalter’s The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data originally published in 2020 and available at all major book retailers.
- R4DS: R for Data Science (2nd edition), found at https://r4ds.hadley.nz/.
- TEL: Dr. Love’s Course Book
December 1-5
Class | Day | Date | Additional Information |
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– | SU | 2024-12-01 | TA office hours resume. |
reading | – | by Class 25 | Spiegelhalter: rest of book (chapters 6 and 14) |
Class 25 | TU | 2024-12-03 | Ask Me Anything / Project B Session over Zoom |
deadline | W | 2024-12-04 | Quiz 2 due at noon Lab 7 due at noon |
Class 26 | TH | 2024-12-05 | Final Class over Zoom |
December 6-11
Day | Date | Additional Information |
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F | 2024-12-06 | Project B Presentations |
M | 2024-12-09 | Last Day for TA office hours. Project B Presentations |
TU | 2024-12-10 | Project B Presentations |
W | 2024-12-11 | Project B Presentations |
W | 2024-12-11 | Deadline is NOON Project B Portfolio submitted to Canvas (Optional) Lab Regrade Request Form submitted. |
August
Class | Day | Date | Additional Information |
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Class 01 | TU | 2024-08-27 | Getting Started (TEL 1-2) |
deadline | W | 2024-08-28 | Lab 0: Welcome to 431 Survey due at noon |
Class 02 | TH | 2024-08-29 | Data Visualization and Summary (TEL 2-3) |
reading | – | by Class 3 | Spiegelhalter: Introduction and Chapter 1 R4DS: Introduction and as much of “Whole game” as possible skim through the Project A instructions |
September
Class | Day | Date | Additional Information |
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Class 03 | TU | 2024-09-03 | Data Wrangling (TEL 4) |
deadline | W | 2024-09-04 | Minute Paper 09-04 due at noon |
Class 04 | TH | 2024-09-05 | Comparing Paired Samples (TEL 5) |
reading | – | by Class 5 | Spiegelhalter: Chapters 2 and 3 R4DS: remainder of “Whole game” (Sections 1-8) get going on Project A Data work |
Class 05 | TU | 2024-09-10 | Comparing Independent Samples (TEL 6) |
deadline | W | 2024-09-11 | Lab 1 due at noon Minute Paper 09-11 due at noon |
Class 06 | TH | 2024-09-12 | Transformation (TEL 7) |
reading | – | by Class 7 | Spiegelhalter: Chapter 5 R4DS: “Visualize” sections, especially sections 10 and 11 finish the Project A Data work and start the Plan. |
Class 07 | TU | 2024-09-17 | Comparing Multiple Groups (TEL 9) |
deadline | W | 2024-09-18 | Lab 2 due at noon Minute Paper 09-18 due at noon |
Class 08 | TH | 2024-09-19 | Transformations and One-Factor ANOVA (TEL 10) |
reading | – | by Class 9 | Spiegelhalter: Chapter 7 R4DS: Sections 16 (Factors) and 28 (Quarto) Complete the Project A Plan: due Wednesday! |
Class 09 | TU | 2024-09-24 | Association and Correlation (TEL 11-12) |
deadline | W | 2024-09-25 | Project A Plan due at noon |
Class 10 | TH | 2024-09-26 | Simple Linear Regression (TEL 11-12) |
October
Class | Day | Date | Additional Information |
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reading | – | by Class 11 | Spiegelhalter: Chapter 8 |
Class 11 | TU | 2024-10-01 | CIs for Proportions, Two-by-Two Tables (TEL 13) |
deadline | W | 2024-10-02 | Lab 3 due at noon Minute Paper 10-02 due at noon Revisions for Project A Plan (for some groups) due at noon |
Class 12 | TH | 2024-10-03 | Larger Two-Way Cross-Classifications (TEL 14) |
reading | – | by Class 13 | Spiegelhalter: Chapter 9 get started on Project A Analyses |
Class 13 | TU | 2024-10-08 | What’s wrong with Statistical Significance, 1 (TEL 15) |
deadline | W | 2024-10-09 | Lab 4 due at noon Minute Paper 10-09 due at noon |
Class 14 | TH | 2024-10-10 | What’s wrong with Statistical Significance, 2 (TEL 15) Quiz 1 out to students at 5 PM |
reading | – | by Class 15 | Spiegelhalter: Chapter 10 |
Class 15 | TU | 2024-10-15 | Making Adjustments (TEL 16) |
deadline | W | 2024-10-16 | Quiz 1 due at noon |
Class 16 | TH | 2024-10-17 | Dealing with Missing Data (TEL 17) |
– | M | 2024-10-21 | CWRU Fall Break - TA office hours canceled. |
– | TU | 2024-10-22 | CWRU Fall Break - no 431 class, and TA office hours canceled. |
reading | – | by Class 17 | Spiegelhalter: Chapter 11 complete most of the Project A Portfolio report |
Class 17 | TH | 2024-10-24 | Ask Me Anything / Project A Help Session over Zoom |
reading | – | by Class 18 | Spiegelhalter: Chapter 12 |
Class 18 | TU | 2024-10-29 | Two-Factor Analysis of Variance (TEL 19) |
deadline | W | 2024-10-30 | Project A Portfolio due at noon Minute Paper 10-30 due at noon |
Class 19 | TH | 2024-10-31 | Multiple Linear Regression, 1 (TEL 18) |
November
Class | Day | Date | Additional Information |
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– | TU | 2024-11-05 | Election Day - no 431 class. (TA office hours will be held.) |
deadline | W | 2024-11-06 | Lab 5 due at noon |
Class 20 | TH | 2024-11-07 | Multiple Linear Regression, 2 (TEL 20) |
reading | – | by Class 21 | Spiegelhalter: Chapter 13 |
Class 21 | TU | 2024-11-12 | Multiple Linear Regression, 3 (TEL 20-21) |
deadline | W | 2024-11-13 | Project B Registration Form due at noon Minute Paper 11-13 due at noon |
Class 22 | TH | 2024-11-14 | Multiple Linear Regression, 4 (TEL 20-22) |
– | F | 2024-11-15 | Schedule for Project B Presentations announced |
reading | – | by Class 23 | Spiegelhalter: Chapter 4 |
Class 23 | TU | 2024-11-19 | Multiple Linear Regression, 5 |
deadline | W | 2024-11-20 | Lab 6 due at noon Minute Paper 11-20 due at noon |
Class 24 | TH | 2024-11-21 | Multiple Linear Regression, 6 Quiz 2 out to students at 5 PM |
– | SA | 2024-11-23 | TA office hours canceled 11-23 through 11-30 |
– | TU | 2024-11-26 | Thanksgiving Week - no 431 class. |
– | TH | 2024-11-28 | CWRU Thanksgiving Break - no 431 class. |
Getting Help
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TA Office Hours
TA office hours are held via Zoom, and will begin on Tuesday 2023-09-03 and will continue through Monday 2023-12-09. Our Shared Google Drive (431 Fall 2024 Dr Love and Students) displays Zoom links for all TA office hours in a document called TA office hours schedule and Zoom links. Or see that document (pdf) here. No appointment is necessary. Please just drop in.
TA office hours will be held at the following times.
SUN | MON | TUE | THU | FRI |
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5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM |
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | ||
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM |
- Professor Love will also hold “drop-in hours” for 10 minutes before and for 30 minutes after each class on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- Office hours are canceled on 2024-10-21 and 2024-10-22 (Fall Break) and from 2024-11-23 through 2024-11-30 (Thanksgiving)
We have no scheduled TA office hours on Wednesdays or Saturdays.
Essentially all deliverables for 431 are due at noon on Wednesdays, so that’s why we have our office hours scheduled as they are.
- More information on each of this semester’s TAs is in this section of our Syllabus.