Schedule

Below is the schedule for the semester. You can find the materials for each course meeting under the “Content” links for that week. You should generally:

• complete the readings by Tuesday;
• complete the tutorials by Tuesday (if any); and
• complete the problem set by Wednesday (before or after the class) (if any)
• Problem set answers will be posted either Thursday or Friday (if any)

Here’s a guide to the schedule:

• Materials (): This page contains the readings, slides, and recorded lectures (if any) for the topic. Read/watch these first.
• Tutorial (): locally hosted tutorial.
• Assignment (): This page contains the instructions for each assignment.

The readings refer to following texts:

• QSS: Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction in tidyverse by Kosuke Imai and Nora Webb Williams
• MD: Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse by Chester Ismay and Albert Y. Kim
• IMS: Introduction to Modern Statistics by Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel and Johanna Hardin.

Date	Title	Reading	Materials	Tutorial	Assignment
Week 1
3/1/23	Introduction to the course
3/1/23	R, Rstudio, and data visualization	MD Ch 1-2
3/1/23	Tutorial 1 (R basic)
Week 2
3/8/23	Tutorial 2 (Data wrangling)
3/8/23	Data wrangling	MD Ch 3
3/8/23	Problem Set 1 due
Week 3
3/15/23	Tutorial 3 (Causality)
3/15/23	Causal inference, randomized experiments, and observational studies	QSS Ch 2.1-2.5
3/15/23	Problem Set 2 due
Week 4
3/22/23	Tutorial 4 (Summarizing data)
3/22/23	Summarizing data & Survey sampling	QSS Ch 2.6-3.4
3/22/23	Problem Set 3 due
Week 5
3/29/23	Tutorial 5 (Correlation and Tidying)
3/29/23	Summarizing relationships in our data	QSS Ch 3.5-3.6 & MD Ch4
3/29/23	Data importing and tidy data	MD Ch4
3/29/23	Problem Set 4 due
Week 6
4/5/23	Prediction & Iteration	QSS 4.1 (except 4.1.2)
4/5/23	Tutorial 6 (Loops)
4/5/23	Regression	MD Ch 5 or QSS 4.2 (except 4.2.5)
Week 7
4/9/23	Final Project Milestone 1
4/26/23	Multiple regression	MD Ch 6.1-6.2 or QSS 4.3.1-4.3.2, 4.4.1
4/26/23	Interpreting regression
4/26/23	Tutorial 7 (Regression)
Week 8
4/30/23	Final Project Milestone 2
5/3/23	Heterogenous effects in Regression	QSS 4.4.2
5/3/23	Problem Set 5 due
Week 9
5/10/23	Tutorial 8 (Bootstrapping)
5/10/23	Sampling and sampling distribution	MD Ch 7
5/10/23	The bootstrap and confidence intervals	MD Ch 8/IMS Ch 12
Week 10
5/17/23	Hypothesis testing	MD Ch 9/IMS Ch 11
5/17/23	Problem Set 6 due
5/24/23	Final Project Milestone 3
5/24/23	Problem Set 7 due