Please read the specified sections before class that day.

Part 1: Intro to the Four Basic Designs and ANOVA

Mon, Jan 22

  • NO CLASS

Tue, Jan 23

  • NO CLASS

Wed, Jan 24

  • NO CLASS

Fri, Jan 26

  • No office hours

Mon, Jan 29

Tue, Jan 31

  • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Wed, Jan 31

    • Basic principles of design
    • Factor structures for the four designs
    • Homework due today:
      • Read Ch. 1.1-1.3 + Appendix
      • HW #1 due today

    Fri, Feb 2

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Mon, Feb 5

    • DataCamp
    • Intro to ANOVA
    • The Fisher assumptions
    • Visualization
    • Homework due today:
      • Read Ch. 2.1-2.3

    Tue, Feb 6

    • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

    Wed, Feb 7

    Fri, Feb 9


    Mon, Feb 12

    • FIELD TRIP to Botanic Gardens - meet there!
    • Homework due today:
    • no homework

    Tue, Feb 13

    • Office hours: 9:00pm - 12:00pm

    Wed, Feb 14

    • Decisions about content of an experiment
    • Intro to ANOVA
    • The Fisher assumptions
    • Homework due today:
      • Read Ch 3.1-3.3

    Fri, Feb 16

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm
    • Homework due today:

    Part 2: Working with the Four Basic Designs

    Mon, Feb 19

    • Formal ANOVA: decomposing the data
    • Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals
    • Homework due today:

    Tue, Feb 20

  • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Wed, Feb 21

    • Decomposition and ANOVA for BF[1] design
    • Homework due today:
      • Read 5.1-5.3
      • Extra credit reading: AB Testing
        • Post a comment on the Slack channel called “abtesting” for extra credit.

    Fri, Feb 23

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Mon, Feb 26

    • Analysis of the BF[1] Design in R
    • R Practice
    • Homework due today:
      • Read 5.4, 5.6
      • Project Proposal Due (upload to Moodle by Midnight)

    Tue, Feb 27

    • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

    Wed, Feb 28

    • EXAM 1 HANDED OUT
    • Review
    • Homework due today:
      • HW #4 due today
      • Ch 2.4, 6.1-6.2

    Fri, Mar 2

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Mon, Mar 5


    Tue, Mar 6

    • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

    Wed, Mar 7

    • Factorial crossing and the BF[2] design
    • Formal ANOVA
    • Analysis of the BF[2] Design in R
    • Homework due today:
      • EXAM 1 DUE TODAY
      • Read Ch 6.3, 6.5

    Fri, Mar 9

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Mon, Mar 12

    • NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK

    Tue, Mar 13

    • NO OH – SPRING BREAK

    Wed, Mar 14

    • NO CLASS – SPRING BREAK

    Fri, Mar 16

    • NO OH – SPRING BREAK

    Mon, Mar 19

    • Mid-Semester Assessment
    • Factorial crossing and the BF[2] design
    • Formal ANOVA for the BF[2]
    • Homework due today:
      • Read Ch 7.1-7.2

    Tue, Mar 20

    • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
    • SDS Presentation of the Major, Ford 240, 12-1p
      • Lunch will be served!

    Wed, Mar 21

    • Blocking and the Complete Block design
    • Latin Square design
    • The Split Plot/Repeated Measures design
    • Rachel Shutt’s visit/talk tomorrow
    • Homework due today:
      • Read Ch 7.3-7.4

    Fri, Mar 23

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm
    • DataFest starts today!!
    • Homework due today:
      • HW #5 due today at 5pm

    Part 3: Extensions and Assumptions

    Mon, Mar 26

    • Scatterplots for data sets with blocks
    • Practice recognizing designs
    • Homework due today:
      • No reading

    Tue, Mar 27

    • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

    Wed, Mar 28

    • Chapter 7 catch-up
    • Homework due today:
      • Read Ch 7.5, 7.7

    Fri, Mar 30

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Mon, Apr 2

    • Spilt-Plot Design
    • Crossing vs. nesting
    • Homework due today:
      • Project update/Method draft due (upload to Moodle by Midnight)

    Tue, Apr 3

    • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

    Wed, Apr 4

    • Compound within-blocks factors
    • Visualizing 3-factor interactions
    • Homework due today:
      • HW #7 due today
      • Read Ch 9.1-9.5

    Fri, Apr 6

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Mon, Apr 9

    • Compound within-blocks factors
    • Visualizing 3-factor interactions
    • Homework due today:
      • No reading due today (finish reading Ch 9)

    Tue, Apr 10

    • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

    Wed, Apr 11

    • Compound within-blocks factors
    • Visualizing 3-factor interactions
    • Adjustment for multiple comparisons
    • Homework due today:
      • HW #8 cancelled!
      • Read Ch 11.1-11.3

    Fri, Apr 13

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Mon, Apr 16

    • Compound within-blocks factors
    • Visualizing 3-factor interactions
    • Adjustment for multiple comparisons
    • Fisher Assumptions
    • Homework due today:
      • Read Ch 12.1-12.4

    Tue, Apr 17

  • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
  • Wed, Apr 18

    • EXAM 2 HANDED OUT
    • Review
    • Rachel Shutt’s talk TOMORROW @ 5pm, Stoddard G2
    • Homework due today:
      • HW #9 due today

    Fri, Apr 20

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Part 4: Projects

    Mon, Apr 23

    • Projects

    Tue, Apr 24

    • Office hours: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
    • EXAM 2 DUE TODAY @ 5:45p

    Wed, Apr 25

    • Projects

    Fri, Apr 27

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Mon, Apr 30

    • Projects
    • Finish posters today by Midnight
      • Fill out this form
      • Email PDF of poster to Randi

    Tue, May 1

    • Randi is printing posters all day, find her in Bass 105

    Wed, May 2

    • Poster Presentations
    • LAST DAY OF CLASS

    Fri, May 4

    • Office hours: 10:00am - 12:00pm

    Mon, May 7

    • Reading period

    Tue, May 8

  • No office hours today, email me to set up an appointment
  • Wed, May 9

    • Project Technical Report and Group Dynamic due (upload to Moodle)

    Fri, May 11

    • No office hours