SDS 322 Schedule - Spring 2025

Instructor: Likai Chen (likai.chen[at]wustl.edu)

This a temporary schedule and will be updated as the semester goes.

Most marterials are borrowed from Mladen Victor Wickerhauser

Materials related to Bayesian analysis are borrowed from Matthew Stephens

Week Topic Chapters Homeworks Handouts
Week 1: 1/13, 01/15, 01/17 Probability, Discrete Probability Distributions MeanandVariance.txt
Plot.txt
Rmarkdown_demo
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Week 2: MLK, 01/22 , 01/24 Continuous Probability Distributions Lecture 3
MultipleNormal
Week 3: 01/27, 01/29, 01/31 Point Estimation, CI hw1_solution.Rmd
hw1_solution.pdf
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Week 4: 02/03, 02/05, 02/07 CI, Hypothesis Testing Lecture 6
t_test.R
Week 5: 02/10, 02/12, 02/14 Hypothesis Testing, Non-parametric test Lecture 7
NoteforTesting
signedtest.R
Week 6: 02/17, 02/19, 02/21 Chisquare test, Survival analysis hw2_solution.pdf
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Week 7: 02/24, 02/26, 02/28 Survival Analysis hw3_solution.pdf
2018 year midterm
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Power
Week 8: 03/03, midterm (03/05), 03/07 2019Midterm_Solution
2018Midterm_Solution
(The remaining questions in the 2018 exam are beyond the scope.)
Week 9: Spring Break
Week 10: 03/17, 03/19, 03/21 Introduction to Bayesian Analysis, Prior distribution BayesianIntro
BayesianPrior
Week 11: 03/24, 03/26, 03/28 Prior distribution, Posterior distribution BayesianPost
Week 12: 03/31, 04/02, 04/04 MarkovChain introduction, MCMC MarkovChain
Week 13: 04/07, 04/09, 04/11 MCMC, importance sampling MarkovChain
MCMC
ImportanceSampling.Rmd
Week 14: 04/14, 04/16, 04/18 nci.data.txt
nci.names.txt
clustering.r
classtree.r
bootstrap.r
isomap.r
Week 15: 04/21, 04/23, 04/25
Week 16: Final Week Final TBD