Summer@Brown is a pre-college program for industrious high school students eager to sample undergraduate-level academics.
Statistics is the science of collecting and interpreting data. The Summer@Brown course has been designed exclusively so that students can learn statistics, be able to present their work to their peers, and have fun doing so. The points of this course include: 1. The development and understanding of the most common statistical tools, including confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.
2. To be able to distinguish real world relevance of terms like statistical significance, experiment design, and interpretation of results.
3. Apply statistical tools to answer questions in whatever topics the students are interested in.
4. Develop skills such as reading statistics in the news, presenting using Microsoft PowerPoint, and computing using R.
I floated around the classroom providing hands-on assistance with statistical concepts and R programming. I graded five problem sets for eleven students. Class was held daily for three weeks.