Editing Statistics and Statistical Programming (Fall 2020) (section)

=== Week 4 (10/6, 10/8) ===
;[[Statistics_and_Statistical_Programming_(Fall_2020)/w04_session_plan|Session plans]]

==== October 6: Emotional contagion and more advanced R fundamentals: import, tidy, transform, and simulate data; write functions ====
'''Required'''
* Read the paper below as well as the attendant [https://www.pnas.org/content/111/29/10779.1 "Expression of editorial concern"] and [https://www.pnas.org/content/111/29/10779.2 "Correction"] that were subsequently appended to it.
:Kramer, Adam D. I., Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock. 2014. “Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks.” ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'' 111(24):8788–90. [[http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full Open access]]
* Complete [[Statistics_and_Statistical_Programming_(Fall_2020)/pset2|problem set #2]] (due Monday, October 5 at 1pm CT)

'''Recommended'''
* [https://communitydata.science/~ads/teaching/2020/stats/r_tutorials/w04-R_tutorial.html Week 4 R tutorial] (as usual, also available as .rmd or .pdf)

==== October 8: Distributions ====
'''Required'''
* Read Diez, Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Barr: §4.1-3 (Normal and binomial distributions). 
* Watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLkIselvEzpM6V9h55s0l9Kzivih9BUWeW&v=S_p5D-YXLS4 normal and binomial distributions] OpenIntro lectures (videos 1-3 in the playlist).
* Complete '''exercises from OpenIntro §4:''' 4.4, 4.6, 4.15, 4.22

'''Resources'''
* [https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html#secondPage/chapter3 Seeing Theory §3 (Probability distributions)]

==== October 9: [[#Research project plan and dataset identification|Research project plan and dataset identification]] due by 5pm CT ====
*'''Submit via [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/122522/assignments Canvas]''' (due by 5pm CT)