Note that labs don't start until the second week of term. Lab "weeks" run Thursday through Wednesday.

Labs will be conducted in the StatsLab, Biosci 2004.

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The StatsLab has computers you can use ,but we highly recommend that you bring your own laptop. If you have your own computer, you can download a full copy of the statistical software R for free (Highly recommended). Follow the instructions here. You should also download the data sets and scripts used in these labs.

Schedule

Dates Subject (click for lab manual) Links Assignment (due by following lab)
Sept. 7-14 NO LABS
Sept. 15-21 Week 1: Introduction to R -- part 1

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Week 4a: Making data files		 Data sheet 1 and OpenOffice Calc
Sept. 22-28 Week 2: Introduction to R -- part 2 Data sheet 1 and OpenOffice Calc
Sept. 29 – Oct. 5 Week 3: Graphics Bat tongue photo
Oct. 6-12 Week 5: Describing Data Sampling from a normal distribution
Confidence intervals of means 		Monday (Thanksgiving Oct. 10) labs will need to be done at home, or people from those sections can join another section this week.
Oct. 13-19 Week 6: Frequency data
Oct. 20-26 Week 7: Contingency analysis Contingency analysis
Key for scoring Origin paragraph
Oct. 27- Nov. 2 Week 8: Normal distribution and sampling means Data sheet 7
Sampling from a normal distribution
Central limit theorem app
Nov 3-4; Nov 14-16 Week 9: Comparing means of two groups Robustness of t app No labs the week of Fall Break, Nov 7-11.
Nov. 17-23 Week 10: Analysis of variance
Nov. 24-30 Week 11: Correlation and regression Guessing correlation coefficients
Residuals
Dec. 1-7 Lab exam In StatsLab Sci 2004 In person exam