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THIS SCHEDULE IS STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Here’s the schedule for the first half of the semester (subject to change — last updated 8/19/18):
| Week | Date | Topics Covered | Assignment or Exam |
| 1 | Mon., Aug. 20 | Intro, histograms | |
| Wed., Aug. 22 | Measures of center | ||
| 2 | Mon., Aug. 27 | Measures of variation, boxplots | |
| Wed., Aug. 29 | Probability intro, counting techniques | Homework 1 Due | |
| 3 | Mon., Sept. 3 | Labor Day: No Class | |
| Wed., Sept. 5 | Conditional probability, independence | ||
| 4 | Mon., Sept. 10 | Random variables, discrete distributions, probability mass functions, expected values | Homework 2 Due |
| Wed., Sept. 12 | Bernoulli and binomial distributions, geometric distributions | ||
| 5 | Mon., Sept. 17 | Poisson distribution | |
| Wed., Sept. 19 | Continuous distributions, probability density functions | ||
| 6 | Mon., Sept. 24 | Expected values, uniform distribution | |
| Wed., Sept. 26 | Cumulative distribution functions | ||
| 7 | Mon., Oct. 1 | Exponential distribution | |
| Wed., Oct. 3 | Normal distribution | ||
| 8 | Mon., Oct. 8 | ||
| Wed., Oct. 10 |
| Week | Date | Topics Covered | Assignment or Exam |
| 9 | Mon., Oct. 15 | ||
| Wed., Oct. 17 | |||
| 10 | Mon., Oct. 22 | ||
| Wed., Oct. 24 | |||
| 11 | Mon., Oct. 29 | Independent random variables, linear combinations of random variables | |
| Wed., Oct. 31 | Sampling distribution of the sample mean, Central Limit Theorem | ||
| 12 | Mon., Nov. 5 | Confidence interval for a mean | |
| Wed., Nov. 7 | Confidence interval for a proportion | ||
| 13 | Mon., Nov. 12 | Intro to hypothesis testing, hypothesis test for a mean | |
| Wed., Nov. 14 | Hypothesis test and confidence interval for two means — independent samples | ||
| 14 | Mon., Nov. 19 | Fall Break: No Class | |
| Wed., Nov. 21 | Fall Break: No Class | ||
| 15 | Mon., Nov. 26 | Hypothesis test and confidence interval for two means — paired samples | |
| Wed., Nov. 28 | Correlation | ||
| 16 | Mon., Dec. 3 | Linear regression | |
| Wed., Dec. 5 | Linear regression | ||
| 17 | Mon., Dec. 10 | Final Exam Week | |
| Wed., Dec. 12 | Final Exam Week |