Day 1 Welcome to STAT 720

1.1 About this course:

1.1.1 Logistics

  • Website
  • Syllabus
  • Statistical programming
  • Rough draft of the course
  • Semester project
  • Grades

1.1.2 Philosophy

1.1.2.1 Statistics

  • Statistical thinking
  • Think of data generating processes
  • Writing out statistical models
  • Fitting the model using R

1.1.2.2 Teaching

  • Applied problems
  • Kahoot

1.2 Learning goals

By the end of this course, you should be able to:
- Be able to identify the treatment design and experiment design.
- Be able to write out the statistical model.
- Know the benefits/disadvantages of

1.3 Why do we design experiments?

1.4 For next class