Statistics and Statistical Programming (Fall 2020)/w01 session plan

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Agenda

• Introductions
  • (Preferred) names, pronouns, details.
  • Why are you here?
  • What background, if any, do you have with statistics and/or statistical programming?
• Meta-curricular concerns
  • High-level goals
  • Why this approach to this material? (Aaron's pedagogical philosophy and motives)
  • Course format, channels of communication, and aspirational norms
• Stuff that's not on the syllabus (yet)
  • Ongoing assessment and iteration
  • Modest "microlectures"
  • NU Research computing and other sources of outside support.
• Week 1 material
  • Pre-course assessment of statistical concepts
  • Setup
  • Working groups
  • Problem set #0