Schedule
All assignments, videos, and readings should be completed prior to each class session.
Class 1 (Wednesday, May 31)
- Course Logistics, Introductions
- Get familiar with our virtual environment and tools
- Setting up your computer
- During Class Work: access to course resources and files
- Access to the file server course directories (\\dragon\courses aka P drive)
- Our stat computing tools through our virtual environment at https://myapps.wesleyan.edu/
- Course Introduction
- During Class Work: Project Component A
Class 2 (Thursday, June 1)
- Codebooks and Data Architecture
- During Class Work: Project Component A due, Mini-Assignment 1
(Friday, June 2)
- continue developing your research questions
- start literature search (see Class 3)
Class 3 (Monday, June 5)
- Literature Review and Writing about Empirical Research
- During Class Work: Project Component B/C
Class 4 (Tuesday, June 6)
- Working with Data
- During Class Work: Project Components B/C/D, and Mini-Assignment 2
Class 5 (Wednesday, June 7)
- Project Components D and Mini-Assignment 2 due
(Friday, June 8)
- Project Components B/C/D due
Class 6 (Monday, June 12)
- Data Management
- During Class Work: Project Component E and Mini-Assignment 3 due
Class 7 (Tuesday, June 13)
- Graphing Variables
- Graphing Relationships
- During Class Work: Project Component F due and Mini-Assignment 4 (continue to next meeting)
Class 8 (Wednesday, June 14)
- Exam 1
- During Class Work: Project Component G and finish Mini-Assignment 4
Class 9 (Thursday, June 15)
- Hypothesis Testing and ANOVA
- During Class Work: Mini-Assignment 5
(Friday, June 16)
- Project Component G, and Mini-Assignment 5 due
Class 10 (Monday, June 19)
- Chi-Square
- Correlation
- During Class Work: Project Component H Mini-Assignment 6 due
Class 11 (Tuesday, June 20)
- Regression and Study Design
- During Class Work: Mini-Assignment 7
Class 12 (Wednesday, June 21)
- Exam 2
- Multiple Linear Regression
- During Class Work: Mini-Assignment 8
Class 13 (Thursday, June 22)
- Confounding and Multivariate Models
- During Class Work: Mini-Assignment 9
(Friday, June 23)
- Start work on your poster
- Making Posters
Class 14 (Monday, June 26)
- Logistic Regression
- During Class Work: Mini-Assignment 10, Project Component J due
Class 15 (Tuesday, June 27)
- Continue work on your poster
- Making Posters
Wednesday, June 28
Poster Presentations
Thursday, June 29
Final Exam