Key Info and Announcements

Modified

April 14, 2026

Announcements

  • Office hours on instructor page!
    • Mine will be after class on Wednesday’s!
  • Reminder: I am teaching a data science course next year (spring)
    • It’ll be a pilot course and be under BSTA 504

Events in SPH

Key Dates

  • HW 1 due 4/19
  • Quiz 1 opens 4/22

Last class

  • We learned about generalized linear models: umbrella term for a lot of regressions that have different types of outcomes
  • We learned about maximum likelihood estimation
    • Another way to estimate regression parameters that best fit the data
  • We fit a simple logistic regression model!
  • This time: how do we interpret the coefficients from our estimated model?