## Session 0: Pre-Course Materials

## Course Structure

- Materials, contacts, exams, etc.

## Introduction

- An Overview of Statistics
- Review material

- Three pages of notes covering in very brief form all that we'll need from probability.

## Pre-Course Mailing

- Cover letter to GK02
- Two-page note on language of estimation

## The Language of Estimation (in greater detail)

- Notes on estimation
- Exercises on estimation with answers

## Sampling

- Notes on sampling; only the material on simple random sampling is required reading
- A Primer on Polls
- A few sampling examples
- Dealing with nonresponse bias

## Why Statistics?

- Some examples of careless "statistics"

## The Whole Shebang

- Click here to download a zipfile of the entire class website (last changed December 29, 2015). Right-click and "extract" to a target folder, and double-click "_Statistics.htm" in that folder to access all of the course materials offline.