2 Getting Started
Your first few steps in this course are to:
- Register and enroll via the CWRU Student Information System (SIS).
- Section 100 of PQHS 431, CRSP 431 and MPHP 431 are identical.
- Review the main course website, and be sure to visit the Course Calendar.
- Skim through each chapter of the Course Syllabus (this document.)
- Obtain the texts required for the course. The book you need to purchase is David Spiegelhalter’s The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data, originally published in 2020 and available at all major book retailers for around $20. All other required texts are free. See Chapter 5 for details on how to get the other required texts.
- Complete the Welcome to 431 survey - see below for details.
- Get started installing the software you’ll need for the course. See Chapter 6 and the Software link on our main website for more details.
- Sign up for the (free) Campuswire discussion forum.
2.1 Welcome to 431 Survey
Please fill out the survey at https://bit.ly/431-2023-welcome-survey to help us get to know you a little better.
- Note that you must log into Google via your CWRU account in order to access the survey.
- The survey should take 15-20 minutes to complete, and we encourage you to complete it as soon as you can.