Mon, Aug 25. Introduction, fundamental concepts including elements, sampling units, populations, samples, sampling designs.

Tue, Aug 27. Introduction to simple random sampling, parameters and estimators, introduction to sampling distributions.

Fri, Aug 29. Sampling distributions — continued, sampling distributions \(\bar{y}\) and \(\hat\tau\) under SRS. A homework assignment on simple random sampling is now available. After today’s lecture you should be able to do the first section titled “Sampling Distributions”.

Mon, Sep 1. Holiday.

Tue, Sep 3. Sampling with replacement, central limit theorem, interpreting normal sampling distributions, standard errors and bounds on the error of estimation, confidence intervals.

Fri, Sep 5. Simulation studies, categorical target variables, domain estimators.

Mon, Sep 8.

Tue, Sep 10.

Fri, Sep 12.

Mon, Sep 15.

Tue, Sep 17.

Fri, Sep 19.

Mon, Sep 22.

Tue, Sep 24.

Fri, Sep 26. First examination.

Mon, Sep 29.

Tue, Oct 1.

Fri, Oct 3.

Mon, Oct 6.

Tue, Oct 8.

Fri, Oct 10.

Mon, Oct 13.

Tue, Oct 15.

Fri, Oct 17.

Mon, Oct 20.

Tue, Oct 22.

Fri, Oct 24.

Mon, Oct 27. Second examination.

Tue, Oct 29.

Fri, Oct 31.

Mon, Nov 3.

Tue, Nov 5.

Fri, Nov 7.

Mon, Nov 10.

Tue, Nov 12.

Fri, Nov 14.

Mon, Nov 17.

Tue, Nov 19.

Fri, Nov 21.

Mon, Nov 24. Fall recess.

Tue, Nov 26. Fall recess.

Fri, Nov 28. Fall recess.

Mon, Dec 1.

Tue, Dec 3.

Fri, Dec 5. Third examination.

Mon, Dec 8.

Tue, Dec 10.

Fri, Dec 12.

Monday, Dec 15. Final examination, 12:45 to 2:45 PM.