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In the schedule below, readings are annotated as in the following example: M(1)~McElreath chapter 1. Assigned readings should be completed by the end of the week on which they appear in the schedule.


Schedule Statistics R Evaluation
Week Date Readings Videos Examples Videos Discussion Exercises Quizzes
1 Jan 17 M(1) The Golem of Prague (18 pages)
Slides Lecture 1
Lecture 1: The Golem of Prague (0:41 hours) History of R (16:07 mins)
Optional: R Introduction/Tutorial
Questions Ch1 Assignment Week 1
Solutions: Exercise Week 1
Information on quizzes
2 Jan 24 M(2) Small worlds and large worlds (21 pages)
M(3) Sampling the imaginary (23 pages)
Slides Lecture 2 (M 2 & 3)
Lecture 2: Bayesian Inference (1:13 hours) R data types (1) (9:26 mins)
R data types (2) (9:45 mins)
Questions Ch 2 & 3 Exercise 2
Solutions: Exercise Week 2
Quiz
3 Jan 31 M(4) Geocentric Models (55 pages)
Slides Lecture 3
Slides Lecture 4
Lecture 3: Geocentric Models (1:22 hours)
Lecture 4: Categories, Curves & Splines (1:17 hours)
Good Explanation of Splines
R data types (3) (11:51 mins)
Subsetting (1) (7:01 mins)
Questions Ch 4 Exercise 3
Solutions: Exercise Week 3
Quiz
4 Feb 7 No new readings this week Binomial Likelihood
Code: Likelihood Function core code
Video: Likelihood Function core code
Subsetting (2) (10:18 mins)
Vectorization (3:46 mins)
Questions Exercise 4
Solutions: Exercise Week 4
Quiz
5 Feb 14 M(5) The many variables & the spurious waffles (39 pages)
Slides Lecture 5
Lecture 5: Elemental Confounds (1:09 hours) Code: Likelihood and linear regression
Video: Likelihood and linear regression
Reading and Writing (1) (12:55 mins)
Reading and Writing (2) (9:30 mins)
Questions Ch 5 Exercise 5
Solutions: Exercise Week 5
No Quiz
6 Feb 21 M(6) The haunted DAG and the causal terror (31 pages)
Slides Lecture 6
Lecture 6: Good and Bad Controls (1:28 hours) Code: DAG examples
Video: DAG examples
Control Structures (1) (7:10 mins)
Control Structures (2) (8:11 mins)
Questions Ch 6 Exercise 6
Solutions: Exercise Week 6
Quiz
7 Feb 28 M(7) Ulysses' compass (47 pages)
Slides Lecture 7
Lecture 7: Overfitting; (1:13 hours) Code: Model Selection
Video: Model Selection
Writing first function (10:29 mins)
Functions (1) (9:17 mins)
Questions Ch 7 Exercise 7
Solutions: Exercise Week 7
Quiz
8 Mar 7 M(8) Conditional manatees (27 pages) Lecture 8: Markov Chain Monte Carlo (1:19 hours) Code: Posterior Estimation
Video: Posterior Estimation
Functions (2) (7:13 mins)
Scoping rules (1) (10:32 mins)
Questions Ch 8 Exercise 8
Solutions: Exercise Week 8
Quiz
Mar 14 Spring Break
9 Mar 21 M(9) Markov Chain Monte Carlo (37 pages)
Slides Lecture 8
Lecture 9: Modeling Events (1:11 hours) Code: Metropolis-Hastings
Video: Metropolis-Hastings
Scoping rules (2) (8:34 mins)
Scoping rules (3) (9:21 mins)
Questions Ch 9 Exercise 9
Solutions: Exercise Week 9
Quiz
10 Mar 28 No new readings this week Code: Interactions
Video: Interactions
Coding standards (8:59 mins)
Dates and times (10:29 mins)
Discussion Questions No new Exercise Quiz
11 Apr 4 M(10) Big entropy and the generalized linear model (25 pages)
Slides Lecture 9
Lecture 10: Counts & Confounds (1:15 hours) Coding standards (8:59 mins)
Dates and times (10:29 mins)
Questions Ch 10 No Exercise for chapter 10 No Quiz
12 Apr 11 M(11) God spiked the integers (47 pages)
Slides Lecture 10
Lecture 11: Ordered Categories (1:21 hours) Code: Poisson Regression
Video: Poisson Regression
lapply (9:23 mins)
apply (7:21 mins)
Questions Ch 11 Exercise 11
Solutions: Exercise Week 11
Quiz
13 Apr 18 M(12) Monsters and mixtures (31 pages)
Slides Lecture 11
Lecture 12: Multilevel Models (1:06 hours) mapply (4:46 mins)
tapply (3:17 mins)
split (9:09 mins)
Questions Ch 12 Exercise 12
Solutions: Exercise Week 12
Quiz
14 Apr 25 M(13) Models with memory (32 pages)
Slides Lecture 12
Slides Lecture 13
Lecture 13: Multi-Multilevel Models (1:02 hours)
Lecture 14: Correlated Varying Effects (1:12 hours)
Debugging (1) (12:33 mins)
Debugging (2) (6:25 mins)
Debugging (3) (8:21 mins)
Questions Ch 13 Exercise 13
Solutions: Exercise Week 13
Quiz
15 May 2 No new readings this week. Quiz
16 May 11 Link to Final Exam: due by 1:15 pm 11 May 2023