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

==== Working groups ==== 

At the start of the course you will be assigned to a small working group. This will be a group of 2-3 students (exact numbers will depend on the final enrollment) with whom you may meet outside of class time to discuss, complete, and/or review your weekly assignments (as well as some of the research project assignments). The groups will rotate at least once during the quarter to ensure that you get to work with different members of the class. The main idea is to support collaborative learning, peer support, and accountability. While the specifics of exactly when and how you work with your working group will largely be up to you, the teaching team will provide [[Statistics_and_Statistical_Programming_(Fall_2020)/Working_groups_template|suggestions in the form of a template]] that you can use as a starting point.

As a general rule, we strongly encourage you to collaborate with members of your working group on any/all weekly (minor) assignments. You may, if you choose, also collaborate with others in your group or the class on your research project (major) assignments; however, collaborative research projects should be discussed with a member of the teaching team and all research project assignment submissions should include the names of all collaborators. 

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Although the day-to-day routine will vary, each class session will generally include the following:
* Quick updates about assignments, projects, and meta-discussion about the class.
* Discussion of '''programming challenges''' due that day (and related to the previous week's R lecture materials).
* Discussion of  '''statistics questions''' related to new material in Diez, Barr, and Çetinkaya-Rundel.
* Discussion of any exemplary empirical paper we have read and the '''empirical paper questions'''.
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