Intro Stats Rethought

USCOTS 2023 Workshop with Danny Kaplan

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Workshop Schedule

Before the workshop …

Pre-workshop assignments

Session I: May 30 afternoon

1:00pm:

• Welcome and orientation

• High-level outline of course

• Resources

• Hunting for clutter (for reference, participant’s contributions to assignment 1 and assignment 2)

2:30 - 3:00pm: Break (with snacks)

3:00pm: Reconvene

• Statistical objects

• Wrangling, Modeling, Graphics

• Computing practice. All you need is a browser, but you are also welcome to work in RStudio if you have it installed.

4:30: Adjourn

Session II: May 31 morning

8:30am: Back to work

• Optional: Computing set up

• Simulations with DAGs

• Layout of course topics, textbooks, …

• Confidence intervals from the start

• Prediction

• Risk

10:00 - 10:30am: Break (with snacks)

• Adjustment for covariates

• Confounding

• Experiment

12:00pm: Recess for lunch

Session III: May 31 afternoon

1:00pm: Wednesday’s child: Hypothesis testing

2:30 - 3:00pm: Break (with snacks)

• Composing a coherent course

4:30pm Adjourn