Schedule

Note: The timeline of topics and assignments might be updated throughout the semester.

week date topic prepare slides exercises
1 27 August Welcome to Linear Models

R and Reproducible Workflows
1 29 August Matrix Refresher
2 3 September Matrix Workshop
2 5 September Linear Regression Fundamentals Faraway Sections 1.3 - 1.4
3 10 September Linear Regression Fundamentals (Workshop)
3 12 September Deriving the Hat Matrix and QR Decomposition Faraway Sections 2.1-2.6
4 17 September No Class (Work on Exercise 4)
4 19 September Properties of Random Vectors Faraway Section 2.8

Gauss Markov Theorem
5 24 September Gauss Markov Theorem (Workshop)
5 26 September Residual Sum of Squares Faraway Sections 2.9, 3.1

Goodness of Fit

Hypothesis Testing
6 1 October Practical Workshop
6 3 October Midterm review
7 8 October Midterm (In Class)
7 10 October Midterm (Out of Class)
8 15 October Midterm Recap
8 17 October Confidence Intervals Faraway Sections 3.4-3.6
9 22 October Confidence Intervals (Workshop)
9 24 October Diagnostics Faraway Chapter 6
9 24 October Transformations Faraway Chapter 9
10 29 October Diagnostics + Transformation (Workshop)
10 31 October Prediction & Prediction Intervals Faraway Chapter 4
11 5 November Prediction (Workshop)
11 7 November FWL
12 12 November FWL (Workshop)
12 14 November Explanation Faraway Chapter 5
13 19 November Causal Inference (Workshop)
21 November Robust Standard Errors
13 21 November Final Project
14 26 November Thanksgiving
14 28 November Thanksgiving
15 3 December Final Presentation (Out of Class)
15 5 December Final Presentation (Out of Class)