Today was the first day of inferential statistics1 — a.k.a., the beginning of the final forty percent of the course.
This campaign has not been without its challenges, but as I got ready to teach today’s classes I wondered about how we got through the first sixty so briskly.2
We’re into the 18th week of the new school year, and I’m at the point now where every morning when I arrive at work, it almost seems strange to me that the new place feels normal.3
Surely, there is a ways to go, but I’m going to wake up exactly four months from now,4 and it’ll feel like tomorrow.
For now, however, today marked the start of the most brutal three-and-half weeks of the course.5
- we start with one sample confidence intervals for large samples — a.k.a., 1-prop z-intervals [↩]
- Incidentally, I probably also had my worst teaching day of the year this morning. Just goes to show, we all have our off-days. [↩]
- Yet ironically, I still have days where we’ll get to 4:05pm and I’ll wonder why the bell isn’t ringing. [↩]
- on Exam Day number five [↩]
- If you’re curioous: intro to confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, type I/II errors, and power. [↩]