Lecture Slides for the Case Study 1 / Homework 1 can be found here chp2
Please read in details the lecture notes presenting the first project, its research question, and suggestions as to how to start the analysis. Statement of the Homework 1 is also presented within the lecture slides (section Investigations) and will be presented in lecture. Topics covered are
- Simple estimation: sample mean, sample standard deviation, sample quantiles
- Histograms
- Boxplots
- Comparing distributions: quantile-quantile plot
- Central Limit Theorem and normal approximations
- Simple Monte Carlo procedures
Two datasets related to this project can be found at babies.txt and babies23.txt.
In order to explore some additional hypothesis please download an additional dataset of your choice from the following website:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm
