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

=== Week 7 (10/27, 10/29) ===
;[[Statistics_and_Statistical_Programming_(Fall_2020)/w07_session_plan|Session plans]]
==== October 27: Applied inference for categorical data ====
'''Required'''
* Read Reinhart, §4 and §5 (both are quite short).
* Skim the following (all are referenced in the problem set)
**  Aronow PM, Karlan D, Pinson LE. (2018). The effect of images of Michelle Obama’s face on trick-or-treaters’ dietary choices: A randomized control trial. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0189693. [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189693 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189693]
** Buechley, Leah and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2010. “LilyPad in the Wild: How Hardware’s Long Tail Is Supporting New Engineering and Design Communities.” Pp. 199–207 in ''Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems.'' Aarhus, Denmark: ACM. [[https://mako.cc/academic/buechley_hill_DIS_10.pdf PDF available on Hill's personal website]]
** Shaw, Aaron and Yochai Benkler. 2012. A tale of two blogospheres: Discursive practices on the left and right. ''American Behavioral Scientist''. 56(4): 459-487. [[https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0002764211433793 available via NU libraries]]
* Complete [[Statistics_and_Statistical_Programming_(Fall_2020)/pset5|problem set #5]]
'''Resources'''
* [https://communitydata.science/~ads/teaching/2020/stats/r_tutorials/w06-R_tutorial.html Week 06 R tutorial] (it's very short!)

==== October 29: Inference for numerical data (part 1) ====
'''Required'''
* Read Diez, Çetinkaya-Rundel, and Barr: §7.1-3 (Inference for numerical data: differences of means). 
* Watch [https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLkIselvEzpM5G3IO1tzQ-DUThsJKQzQCD&v=uVEj2uBJfq0 inference for numerical data] (videos 1-4 in the playlist) OpenIntro lectures (and featuring one of the textbook authors!).
* Complete '''exercises from OpenIntro §7:''' 7.12, 7.24, 7.26

'''Resources'''
* [https://gallery.shinyapps.io/CLT_mean/ OpenIntro Central limit theorem for means demo].

==== October 30: [[#Research project planning document|Research project planning document]] due 5pm CT====
* Submit via [https://canvas.northwestern.edu/courses/122522/assignments/787297 Canvas] (due by 5pm CT)