Statistics and Statistical Programming (Spring 2019)/Session plan: Week 1

• Note Cards!
  • Preferred name
  • Anything else you want me to know (e.g., preferred pronouns)
• Quick introductions: please tell us about...
  • Your progress in your degree program
  • Your research interests (in a couple sentences)
  • Dataset you will be working with (or searching for)
  • Your prior experience with statistics and/or programming
• Go over syllabus
  • Note: programming challenges (should) address previous week's statistical material and weekly R "lecture"
• Week 1 Problem Set and R lecture materials
  • Note/correction about the R lecture (Rmd → HTML vs. PDF)
  • Discuss Statistics questions
  • Discuss Empirical paper questions
  • Discuss/complete Programming challenges
• [If time allows] Discuss/start programming challenges for next week