STA 035B, Winter 2024

Instructor: Spencer Frei (sfrei@ucdavis.edu)

Lectures: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM, WELLMN 234

Labs: Run by TA, Mengjie Shi, email: mjshi@ucdavis.edu

Final exam: Friday March 22 at 8:00 AM

Office hours:

Syllabus: here

Piazza: here

Textbooks: There will be two textbooks used for the course, both of which are freely available online.

Class Schedule

Lecture Day Topics Slides Additional references HW Lab Notes
Jan 8 (M) Intro, review of R / dplyr Slides R4DS2 Ch3
Jan 10 (W) dplyr, tidy data Slides R4DS2 Ch3
Jan 12 (F) Tidy data and transformations of logical vectors Slides R4DS2 Ch5 and Ch12 No HW
Jan 15 (M) MLK Day, no class Lab 1 released
Jan 17 (W) Transformations of numbers Slides R4DS2 Ch13
Jan 19 (F) Transformations of strings Slides R4DS2 Ch14 HW 1 released [Rmd] [PDF] [Solution]
Jan 22 (M) Regular expressions Slides R4DS2 Ch15 Lab 1 due, 9pm
Lab 2 released
Jan 24 (W) Dates and Times Slides R4DS2 Ch17 HW 1 due 1/25, 9pm
Jan 26 (F) Joins, Visualization 1 Slides 1 Slides 2 R4DS2 Ch19 / Ch9 HW 2 released [Rmd] [PDF] [Solution]
Jan 29 (M) Visualization 2 Slides R4DS2 Ch9 Practice midterm Lab 2 due, 9pm
Lab 3 released
Jan 31 (W) Visualization 3 Slides R4DS2 Ch10 HW 2 due 2/1, 9pm
Feb 2 (F) Visualization 4 Slides R4DS2 Ch11 & 16
Feb 5 (M) Midterm 1 Lab 3 due, 9pm
Lab 4 released
Feb 7 (W) Functions 1 Slides R4DS2 Ch25
Feb 9 (F) Functions 2 / Linear regression Slides R4DS2 Ch25 HW 3 released [Rmd] [PDF] [Solution]
Feb 12 (M) Linear regression Slides IMS Ch7-8, Ch10 Lab 4 due, 9pm
Lab 5 released
Feb 14 (W) Inference - randomization Slides IMS Ch11 HW 3 due 2/15, 9pm
Feb 16 (F) Inference - bootstrapping, mathematical models Slides IMS Ch12-13 HW 4 released [Rmd] [PDF] [Solution]
Feb 19 (M) Presidents' Day, no class Lab 6 released
Feb 21 (W) Inference for proportions Slides IMS Ch15-16 Lab 5 due, 9pm
Feb 23 (F) Inference for comparing 2 proportions Slides IMS Ch17 HW 4 due 2/23, 9pm
Feb 26 (M) No class Practice midterm; [Solution] Lab 6 due, 9pm
Feb 28 (W) Midterm 2
Mar 1 (F) Inference for a single mean Slides IMS Ch19 HW 5 released [Rmd] [PDF] [Solution]
Mar 4 (M) Inference for comparing two means Slides IMS Ch20 Lab 7 released
Mar 6 (W) Inference for comparing many means Slides IMS Ch22 HW 5 due 3/7, 9pm
Mar 8 (F) Inference for comparing mcd any means, regression with single predictor Slides IMS Ch22, Ch24
Mar 11 (M) Logistic regression I Slides OpenIntro Ch9 Lab 7 due, 9pm
Mar 13 (W) Logistic regression II Slides
Mar 15 (F) Review for final exam Old exams below
Mar 22 (F) Final exam: 8:00am-11:00am

Practice exam material:

Professor Frei's office hours during final exam week:

TA Mengjie Shi's office hours during final exam week: