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STAT8801, Spring 2014

Jan 24: Introduction and Example Consultation | handout
Links to: Completely Sufficient Statistician | Traits of a Successful Statistician
Jan 26: Case Study: Storm Damage | handout
Jan 29: The Process of Writing | handout
Jan 31: Writing a Protocol for Data Collection | handout | the tea story
Feb 3: Videos: Nonverbal Communication | handout
Feb 5: Writing: Plagiarism | handout
Feb 7: Case Study: Eagle Wing Flapping | handout
Feb 10: Videos: Asking Good Questions | handout
Feb 12: Guest: Travelers Insurance | handout
Feb 14: Writing: Subjects and Actions | handout
Feb 17: Videos: Setting Expectations | handout
Feb 19: Writing: Cohesion, Coherence, and Emphasis | handout
Feb 21: Case Study: Baking Bread / Type III and IV errors | handout
Feb 24: Writing: Conciseness and Simplicity | handout
Feb 26: Guest: Eric Vance | handout
Feb 28: Case: Chronic Wasting Disease | handout
Mar 3: Videos: Presenting Information | handout
Mar 5: Introduce Roleplaying Cases | handout
Mar 7: Better Meetings - The POWER process | handout
Mar 10: Writing: Consulting Proposals | handout
Mar 12: Videos: Disaster Ensues... | handout

Mar 24: Discussion: Cleveland and Tufte | handout
Mar 26: Article Discussion: Data Visualization and Statistical Graphics | handout | article | excerpt
Mar 28: Case: Dog Itching | handout
Mar 31: General Ethics | handout
Apr 2: Intellectual Property and Authorship | handout
Apr 4: Conflicts of Interest | handout
Apr 7: Data Management | handout
Apr 9: Human/Animal Subjects | handout
Apr 11: Advice on Statistics and Ethics | Vardeman/Morris TAS article
Apr 14: Improving Tables | handout
Apr 16: Tables into Graphs | handout | article
Apr 18: Useful R packages | handout | code
Apr 21: Case Study: MPCA Water Quality | handout
Apr 23: Guest: Dr. Jennings / Workflow in R | handout
Apr 25: Statistical Analogies | article
Apr 28: Writing Statistical Reports | handout
Apr 30: Code Style | handout
May 5: Giving Better (or Worse) Talks | slides | handout
May 7: Jobs/Elevator Speech | handout
May 9: Last Day! | handout | Unofficial Evaluation