Week 4 – Least Squares, Percentiles, and Regression

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Lecture (Monday, April 18th) 👨‍🏫

• blank slides 😶
• annotated slides 😊
• recording 🎥

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Readings 📖

• Rose, How the Idea of a ‘Normal’ Person Got Invented
• Clayton, How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
• Sonabend, Statistics, Eugenics, and Me
• Rosenfeld, The invention of correlation.

Optional:

• YouTube: Least Squares as a Maximum Likelihood estimator (highly recommended)
• MathIsFun, Quincrux Explained
• Galton, Kinship and Correlation
• Rehmeyer, Darwin: The reluctant mathematician
• PSU, Maximum Likelihood Estimation
• The Normal Share of Paupers

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Homework 4 (due Sunday, April 24th at 11:59PM) 📝

Click here to access the homework on DataHub.

Click here to access the solutions.