1 August 18
1.1 Welcome
- About the instructor
- Course website
- Syllabus
- Is the course right for you?
- Recommended books and software
- Reproducibility requirement (data analysis can be successfully repeated by someone other than you)
- Academic Honesty: working in groups, sharing code, etc.
- Exam 1 and 2
1.2 Course format
- Previous course format and changes
- My philosophy and what I can offer
- Will this course be better online?
- Course design
- Phase 1-Crash course in spatio-temporal statistics (~1.5 months)
- Standard lectures with lots of reading
- Goal is to get to phase 2 as soon as possible
- Phase 2-Problem based learning
- Phase 2 is designed to mimic research
- Data/question motivated applications
- Contact tracing
- Estimating and predicting community spread
- Earthquake prediction in space and time
- If you have a data set or problem you would like me to consider using in class please send me an email with a short description
- Phase 3-Class project of your choice
- Phase 1-Crash course in spatio-temporal statistics (~1.5 months)
- How to best interact with me
- Depends on your career path
- Easy to access online
- Please make good use of our time
1.3 Reading Assignment
- Read pgs. 1-15 in Wikle et al. (2019)
- Test poll feature in zoom
- I may use the polling feature in zoom to test you over the readings this semester
1.4 Assignment 1
- Assignment 1
- In-class demonstration of R Markdown