Week 2

Overview

Caution📚 HW1 (Deadline 1pm Tues Jan 20)

Github Classroom Assignment

Learning Goals

• Developing statistical intuitions
• Bridging the two cultures of statistics
• Getting familiar with plotting & EDA in Python

Slides

TipSlides Mon Jan 12th

TipSlides Wed Jan 14th

Materials

Caution📚 Lab 02 - Data visualization & EDA intro

Github Classroom Assignment

Caution📝 HW 1 - Data Exploration with Python and Polars

HW 1 notebook

Mentioned References

NoteStatistical Thinking (Chap 1) - What is statistical thinking?

NoteYarkoni & Westfall (2017) - Prediction vs Explanation

NoteBreiman (2001) - Two Cultures

NoteGelman & Vehtari (2021) - Most important statistical ideas

NoteBzdok (2017) - Classical Statistics & Statistical Learning

NoteBzdok & Ioannidis (2019)

NoteJolly & Chang (2019)