This is the website for
Bill Press' web lectures on
statistics, originally given as a course at the
University of Texas at
Austin, where Bill is a professor in computer science. The associated
YouTube channel is called
opinionatedlessons.
If you just want to watch or sample the lectures,
you can go directly to
the
YouTube page. If you want to dig deeper into the course
materials, then use the links to individual lectures below. Each
leads to a page with (usually) problems, solutions, class activities,
and further things to think about. There are also links to the
original lecture slides in PDF and PowerPoint formats.
Yep. When the course was given in 2014, the
enrolled students agreed to make their work (homework, individual
projects, etc.) available on the web to everyone in the world as a
public wiki. The front door for that wiki is
here and explains
everything. The individual student pages are accessed
here.
Some students worked harder than others, you'll see! A few students
provided some really excellent problem solutions. (You'll have
to figure out for yourself which ones.)
OK, apologies! Those pages that are served by the
course wiki are subject to
bit rot, because
the
MediaWiki
software and its underlying
PHP need
to be upgraded from time to time, and Bill doesn't always remember to
do this. If you think this is the problem, Google to find Bill
Press's email and send him a note. (Sorry,
don't send him
your statistics questions!)
If you find that some pages in the course wiki are loading slowly it is
probably because we now use
MathJax for math equation
rendering. This is the most foolproof method and should work on all
browsers, but it can be slow. Be patient. Your reward on a slow page
will be a page with lots of beautiful math! If math is rendering
incorrectly on your browser, we apologize but there isn't much we can
do.
If the course wiki pages are completely broken, including the links
to the individual lecture segments below, then here is your backup:
(1) The YouTube links should still work, so you can still watch the
lectures. (2) A single kludgy PDF file with much (but not all) of the
material available for the individual segments is
linked here.
Some additional lectures made it into
PowerPoint slides, but never got recorded as web lectures.
Here are the links:
