Here you will find all lectures posted ahead of time, typed in pdf. I will go over the material in class mostly using the chalkboard and the computer from time to time. In my experience, students that get the most out of the class read the coming lectures BEFORE coming to class, pay attention and write notes from the board in class (writing the material actually helps our brain process it) and review what they wrote in their notebooks.
| Week |
Monday Lecture | Wednesday Lecture | Friday Lecture | Lab programs | Assignments |
| Week 1 8/22-8/26 | –Introduction: Genetics of quantitative traits and the Central Limit Theorem
–Simple mark recapture experiment and the binomial distribution (pdf notes pages 3-5) |
–Maximum Likelihood and the estimation of the total population size for a simple mark recapture experiment (sampling with replacement -notes pages 3-5) | –Mark recapture experiment 2.0: The hypergeometric distribution, sampling without replacement and ML estimation (pdf notes pages 6-7) | -Profile Likelihood estimation | HW 1 |
| Week 2
8/29-9/2 |
-Motivating question: If both estimators are identical, which model is better? Sampling without replacement or sampling with replacement?
–Ans (pages 8-14): Use what you learned from the appendix about expected values!!!! |
-Expected values: algebraic manipulations for expected values. Page 69-72 of the class notes |
-Variances and covariances -Conclude week by stating that literally ALL the inferential tools from this point on are special forms of expected values!!! We need to learn Expectations well! |
-lab before due date:
Q&A session where I will work one on one (or in groups)!! |
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| Week 3
9/5-9/9 |
Holiday, no class | HW 1 due today in class | HW 2 | ||
| Week 4
9/12-9/16 |
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| Week 5
9/19-9/23 |
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| Week 6
9/26-9/30 |
HW 2 due today in class | HW 3 | |||
| Week 7
10/3-10/7 |
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| Week 8
10/10-10/14 |
HW 3 due today in class | Homecoming
No class (Don’t drive around campus, just walk or bike!) |
HW 4 | ||
| Week 9
10/17-10/21 |
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| Week 10
10/24-10/28 |
HW 4 due today in class | HW 5 | |||
| Week 11
10/31-11/4 |
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| Week 12
11/7-11/11 |
HW 5 due today in class | Holiday, no class | HW 6 | ||
| Week 13
11/14-11/18 |
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| Week 14
11/21-11/25 |
HW 6 due today in class | HW 7 | |||
| Week 15
11/28-12/2 |
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| Week 16
12/5-12/9 |
HW 7 due today in class | ||||
| Finals week
12/12-12/16 |