Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Math 141 Reed College, Spring 2026

Monday, Jan 26
Wednesday, Jan 28
Thursday, Jan 29
Lab: Introduction to R, RStudio, and Quarto
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Lab Instructions
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Friday, Jan 30
Data Visualization: the 5 Named Graphs with ggplot2
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Slides
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Monday, Feb 2
Wednesday, Feb 4
Thursday, Feb 5
Lab: Data Visualization
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Friday, Feb 6
Probability I: Introduction and LLN
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Monday, Feb 9
Wednesday, Feb 11
Thursday, Feb 12
Lab: Data Sampling and Summary Statistics
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Friday, Feb 13
Study Design
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Monday, Feb 16
Wednesday, Feb 18
Thursday, Feb 19
Lab: Linear Regression
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Friday, Feb 20
Linear Models III: Categorical Predictors
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Monday, Feb 23
Wednesday, Feb 25
Thursday, Feb 26
Lab: Multiple Linear Regression
Case Study Demo
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Friday, Feb 27
Sampling Distributions I: Introduction
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Monday, Mar 2
Sampling Distributions II: Properties
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Midterm Review Sheet
Wednesday, Mar 4
Thursday, Mar 5
Lab: Midterm Review
Friday, Mar 6
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Monday, Mar 9
Confidence Intervals I: Introduction
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Wednesday, Mar 11
Thursday, Mar 12
Lab: MIDTERM EXAM
Friday, Mar 13
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Monday, Mar 16
Hypothesis Testing II: Null Distributions and P-Values
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Midterm Revisions
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Wednesday, Mar 18
Thursday, Mar 19
Lab: Sampling and Bootstrap Distributions
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Friday, Mar 20
P-Value Pitfalls
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Saturday, March 21 - Sunday, March 29
No Class
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Monday, Mar 30
Wednesday, Apr 1
Thursday, Apr 2
Lab: Confidence Intervals & Hypothesis Testing
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Friday, Apr 3
Random Variables III: Continuous Distributions & the CLT
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Monday, Apr 6
Theory-based Inference I: Intro
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Wednesday, Apr 8
Theory-based Inference II: Proportions
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Thursday, Apr 9
Lab: The Normal Distribution
Friday, Apr 10
Theory-based Inference III: Means
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Monday, Apr 13
Theory-based Inference IV: Activity
Wednesday, Apr 15
Inference for Regression I: Recap and Introduction to Theory
Thursday, Apr 16
Lab: Theory-Based Inference
Friday, Apr 17
Inference for Regression II: Simulation-Based Methods
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Monday, Apr 20
Inference for Regression III: ANOVA
Wednesday, Apr 22
Inference for Regression IV: Activity
Thursday, Apr 23
Lab: Inference for Regression in R
Friday, Apr 24
Chi-Squared Tests
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Monday, Apr 27
Modeling Categorical Outcomes
Wednesday, Apr 29
Review Day (Conceptual)
Thursday, Apr 30
Lab: Review Day (Coding)
Friday, May 1
The Whole Pipeline: Data to Inference
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