15.075J | Fall 2011 | Undergraduate

Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis

Lecture Notes

The course notes correspond to chapters from the course textbook:

Tamhane, Ajit C., and Dorothy D. Dunlop. Statistics and Data Analysis: From Elementary to Intermediate. Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780137444267.

CHAPTERS TITLES NOTES
2 Review of Probability (PDF)
3 Collecting Data (PDF)
4 Summarizing and Exploring Data (PDF)
5 Sampling Distributions of Statistics (PDF)
6 Basic Concepts of Inference

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7 Inferences for Single Samples (PDF)
8 Inferences for Two Samples (PDF)
9 Inferences for Proportions and Count Data

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10 Similar Linear Regression and Correlation (PDF)
11 Multiple Linear Regression (PDF)
14 Nonparametric Statistical Methods (PDF)
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