| Lecture/Lab |
Date |
Topic |
Resources/ Data |
R codes |
| Lecture 1 |
24 Sep |
- Scatter Plots: Mechanics of drawing a scatter plot, summarising the scatter plot
- Computing correlation coefficient
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| Lab 1 |
7 Oct |
- Galton’s Heights: Visualizing and Predicting Traits
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| Lecture 2 |
8 Oct |
- More about correlation
- Changing SDs
- Some exceptional cases
- Ecological correlations
- Association is not causation
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| Lecture 3 |
9 Oct |
- Regression
- General regression model and special cases
- Questions to ask
- Fitting a line using least squares (visual)
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| Lab 2 |
14 Oct |
- Galton Data – From Correlation to Regression
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| Lecture 4 |
16 Oct |
- Finding the intercept and slope using least squares
- Matrix notation
- Multiple linear regression
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| Lab 3 |
21 Oct |
- Shot Put and Straight Lines
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shotput.csv |