04. Course Structure
Schedule
| Week | Date | Topic |
| 1 | Tuesday, September 9, 2025 | What is probability? |
| 2 | Tuesday, September 16, 2025 | Aspects of normal distributions – checking normality, frequentist approach |
| 3 | Tuesday, September 23, 2025 | Bayes theorem |
| 4 | Tuesday, September 30, 2025 | Introduction to Bayesian data analysis |
| 5 | Tuesday, October 7, 2025 | Bayesian estimation of a parameter in a sequence of Bernoulli trials |
| 6 | Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | Frequentist simple & multiple linear regression: least squares & least absolute deviation |
| 7 | Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | Mid-semester write-up: in class |
| 8 | Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | Statistical significance and effect size |
| 9 | Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | Logistic regression |
| 10 | Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | Veterans Day – no class today |
| 11 | Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | K-nearest neighbor classification |
| 12 | Tuesday, November 25, 2025 | K-means clustering |
| 13 | Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | Cross validation for multiple linear regression |
| 14 | Tuesday, December 9, 2025 | End-of-semester write-up in class |