Course Schedule

Week Topic Lab Exercise
1 Observational Errors
2 Summary Statistics The Hubble Law
3 Probability Distribution Functions
4 Cumulative Distribution Functions Radioactive Decay
5 Normal Distribution
6 Correlation and Covariance Weighing the Earth
7 Sampling Distributions
8 Midterm The HR Diagram
9 Estimation
10 Hypothesis Testing Discovery of the Atomic Nucleus
11 Linear Least Squares
12 Regression Discovery of the Higgs Boson
13 Liklihood
14 Bayes Theorem Lab 7
15 Final Exam Oral Presentations