Section Exercises

Section Materials

Section meets Fridays, 9:30AM-10:20AM, in the Ogg Room (North Hall 422). Each meeting typically begins with questions and review, and the remainder is devoted to short, guided exercises that implement the week’s material in .

Links to the section materials on Github are available below. Download the folder (or clone the repository) to access the code yourself in .

Links become active as the materials for each week are posted.

Week 1: Introduction and Foundations of Probability

Friday, September 11

To be posted

Week 2: Conditional Probability and Independence

Friday, September 18

Week 3: Random Variables and Distributions

Friday, September 25

To be posted

Week 4: Joint Distributions and Expectation

Friday, October 2

To be posted

Week 5: Variance, Covariance, and Conditional Expectation

Friday, October 9

To be posted

Week 6: Estimation: Part 1

Friday, October 16

To be posted

Week 7: Estimation: Part 2

Friday, October 23

To be posted

Week 8: Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing

Friday, October 30

To be posted

Week 9: Introduction to Regression

Friday, November 6

To be posted

Week 10: Inference for Regression

Friday, November 13

To be posted

Week 11: Interpreting Regressions

Friday, November 20

To be posted

Week 12: Regression Wrap-up

No section – Thanksgiving recess runs November 26-29

Week 13: Weighting Estimators

Friday, December 4

To be posted

Week 14: Preview: Causal Inference

Friday, December 11

To be posted