Course Schedule
Chapter refers to chapters in Design of Experiments and Observational Studies . The schedule below is tentaive and may be revised during the course.
| Week | Class Dates | Topics | Chapter | Practice problems, tests, project |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sept. 5 | Introduction to course and study design | 2 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| 2 | Sept. 10/12 | Review of mathematical statistics, Comparing two groups via the randomization distribution | 3, 4 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| 3 | Sept. 17/19 | Comparing two groups via the randomization distribution Power and sample size | 4, 5 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| 4 | Sept. 24/26 | Power via simulation Introduction to causal inference in randomized experiments | 5, 6 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| 5 | Oct. 1/3 | Causal inference/ Tutorial Class | 6 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| 6 | Oct. 8/10 | Midterm test, Introduction to causal inference in randomized experiments | 7 | Midterm test #1 Oct. 8, 14:00 – 16:00 (covers material up to and including Oct. 1 class) |
| 7 | Oct. 15/17 | Causal inference | 7 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| 8 | Oct. 22/24 | ANOVA - Comparing more than two groups, multiple comparisons | 8.1 - 8.8 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| 9 | Oct. 29/31 | Introduction to factorial designs | 10.1 - 10.10 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| Nov. 5/8 | No classes - Fall Reading week, Nov. 4 Last day to drop F section code courses from academic record and GPA. | |||
| 10 | Nov. 12/14 | Factorial designs, ANOVA Multiple Comapisons, ANOVA Sample Size, Randomized block designs, Latin Squares, Balanced Incomplete Block Designs/Tutorial Class | 10.11 - 10.13, 8.10, 8.11, start chapter 9 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| 11 | Nov. 19/21 | Midterm test, Sample size for ANOVA, Multiple Comparisons | 8 | Midterm test #2 Nov. 19, 14:00 – 16:00 (covers material up to and including Nov. 12 class) |
| 12 | Nov. 26/28 | Blocking, Blocking in factorial designs | 9, 11 | Exercises and end of chapter problems |
| 13 | Dec. 3/5 | Fractional factorial designs | 12 | Exercises and end of chapter problems, project (Dec. 5) |
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