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