| Week | Subject | Text |
| 1 | Introduction: US presidential polls Quebec Referendum Polls US Energy Datai Simple Random Samples |
Chapter 1, Ch 2.1-5 |
| 2 | Estimation, Standard Errors Simple Random Sampling Expected value of the Sample Mean Confidence Intervals, Central Limit Theorem Standard Error and Estimated Standard Error of the sample mean Assignment 1 Due Friday | 2.1-9 | Chapter 1, Ch 2.1-5 |
| 3 | Examples, ratio estimation, Taylor expansions
Standard Errors for Ratio estimates Subpopulation means |
Chapter 1, Ch 2.1-5 |