Students should have have a basic understanding of probability, classical statistics and hypothesis testing, linear regression, and maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). Students should be familiar or proficient with the R programming language.
| Primary | Jeffrey Arnold | jrnold@uw.edu |
| Sheridan Grant | slgstats@uw.edu |
| Jeff | M | 11:00 am–1:00 pm | SMI 221B |
| Sheridan | M 3:30-4:20 | F 2:30-3:20 | CMU B023 |
Instructions for Jeff’s office hours:
Sign up for a 30-minute slot using the Google Calendar appointments link emailed to the class.
Email me 24 hours prior to your appointment with what you would like to discuss.
These instructions will ensure that our time is efficiently spent and I can be of the most help to you.
In this course we will be using Slack for online class discussion. You will not be required to post, but the system is designed to get you help quickly and efficiently from classmates, and the instructors. Rather than emailing questions to the instructors, post your questions to the course Slack. You should have received an invitation to join this team, if not contact us to receive an invite.
Evaluation will consist of problem sets and participation.
These will be assigned on Tuesday and due the following Tuesday prior to class. They will consist of both applied and theoretical questions. Evaluation of the problem set will consist of three components.
Solutions: The initial answers to problem sets will be graded as “excellent”, “satisfactory”, or “unsatisfactory.”
Peer Evaluations: Each student will be randomly assigned two other students’ assignments to grade. The peer evaluations themselves will receive grades of “satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory”.
Corrections: After receiving the solution key and comments on their initial submission, students must correct their problem sets. These corrections will take the form of an updated assignment which (1) indicates where mistakes were made, (2) indicates the correct answer, (3) and demonstrates an understanding of how these mistakes were made and how those mistakes differ from the correct answer.
Students must actively participate in all parts of the course. This will consist of pre-lecture assignments in which students will be asked to contribute questions or content, as well as participation on Slack. The details of how this will be evaluated will evolve over the course.
BDA3 is is optional, but will go into more depth than Stat Rethinking and will be used if we get through the material in Stat Rethinking quicker than expected.
Additional readings are on the schedule.
For computation, this course will rely upon
Both R and Stan are free and open-source.
I expect that students will already be familiar with R, so class time will not be spent introducing it in order to familiarize students with Stan.
Though not necessary, you are encouraged to use RStudio Desktop integrated development environment (IDE) for R.