Handling data
Projects for Block 1
Lessons in Statistical Thinking
Preface
Preface
Preface
Handling data
1
Data frames
2
A pattern for data analysis
3
Data graphics
4
Computing with functions and arguments
5
Data wrangling
6
Databases
7
Reading R
Projects for Block 1
Describing relationships
8
Statistical thinking & variation
9
Accounting for variation
10
Model patterns
11
Linear regression
12
Adjustment
Randomness and the unexplained
13
Signal and noise
14
Simulation
15
Probability models
16
Covariance and extremes
17
Measuring and accumulating risk
Understanding modeling
18
Sampling and sampling variation
19
Confidence intervals
20
Effect size
21
Predictions
22
Causality and DAGs
23
Confounding
24
Experiment and random assignment
25
Spurious correlation
26
Covariates and adjustment
27
R-squared and covariates
Hypothetical thinking
28
Competing hypotheses
29
Null hypothesis testing
Appendices
Software used in the Lessons
Important word pairs
30
Project: Transcribing Data
Table of contents
Geographic data
Census data
Literature
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Projects for Block 1
Geographic data
See blog post <blog.rwhitedwarf.com> for April 19, 2023.
Census data
Literature
7
Reading R
8
Statistical thinking & variation