Tentative Schedule

Week 1: August 25-29, 2025

• Dr. Seals out sick :(

Week 2: September 1-5, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Labor Day holiday - campus closed.
• Meeting 2:
  • Topic(s):
    • Very Brief Review of Probability
  • Slides:
    • .html: view slides here
    • .qmd: see underlying code here

Week 3: September 8-12, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Schedule a meeting with your EES collaborator.
  • Worksheet: see Canvas.
• Meeting 2:
  • Topic(s):
    • Discrete distributions
    • Continuous distributions
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:

Week 4: September 15-19, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Assignment 1: Using Distributions
    • .html:
    • .qmd:
• Meeting 2:
  • Topic(s):
    • Thinking like a Bayesian
    • Bayes’ Rule/Theorem
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:

Week 5: September 22-26, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Topic(s):
    • Beta-Binomial
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:
• Meeting 2:
  • Topic(s):
    • Balance and Sequentiality
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:

Week 6: September 29-October 3, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Topic(s):
    • Gamma-Poisson
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:
• Meeting 2:
  • Topic(s):
    • Normal-Normal
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:

Week 7: October 6-10, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Topic(s):
    • Approximating the posterior
    • MCMC
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:
• Meeting 2:
  • Topic(s):
    • Posterior inference
    • Posterior prediction
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:

Week 8: October 13-17, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Columbus Day holiday - campus closed.
• Meeting 2:
  • Assignment 2: Basic Bayesian Analysis
    • .html:
    • .qmd:

Week 9: October 20-24, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Topic(s):
    • Regression under the normal distribution
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:
• Meeting 2:
  • Topic(s):
    • Evaluating the model
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:

Week 10: October 27-31, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Topic(s):
    • Poisson/negative binomial regressions
    • Logistic regression
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:
• Meeting 2:
  • Topic(s):
    • How to “read” research papers outside of statistics.
  • Project 1a: Reviewing literature (complete in class)
    • .html:
    • .qmd:
  • Project 1b: Reviewing literature (complete at home)
    • .html:
    • .qmd:

Week 11: November 3-7, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Assignment 3: Regression Analysis
    • .html:
    • .qmd:
  • Check in with Project 1b
• Meeting 2:
  • Meet with your EES collaborator on your own to discuss methodology.
  • Your annotations (Project 1b) will be completed, which will help guide the discussion.
  • Project 2: Discussion worksheet

Week 12: November 10-14, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Work on analysis
• Meeting 2:
  • Work on analysis
  • Project 3: Analysis worksheet/check in

Week 13: November 17-21, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Topic(s):
    • General guidelines for writing about statistical methodology.
      • Ethical considerations.
    • General guidelines for providing results.
      • Tables.
      • Visualizations.
      • Written summaries.
  • Slides:
    • .html:
    • .qmd:
  • Project 4a: Methods paragraph
  • Project 4b: Tables
  • Project 4c: Graphs
• Meeting 2:
  • 2 minute presentation of your methodology/results

Week 14: November 24-28, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • Meet with your EES collaborator on your own to discuss results.
  • Project 5: Worksheet for discussion
• Meeting 2:
  • Thanksgiving holiday - campus closed.

Week 15: December 1-5, 2025

• Meeting 1:
  • No meeting.
  • Take home final opens.
• Meeting 2:
  • No meeting.
  • Final draft of research due.

Week 16: Exam Week!

• Final exam due this week.