Math W50
How Do They Know My Opinion?
Interim 2000

"Overhead" Index

Don't forget to also look at the Links to Other Sites page. Thursday, January 6

• What is statistics?
• Seven Critical Components that determine the soundness of statistical studies. (J. Utts)
• Did the Holocoust really happen?

• Random Digits
• How to Evaluate a Study
  • Common Pitfalls

• Where are we now?
• Researcher to use death camp data

• Checklist for Statistical Pictures
• Golf Balls in the Yard

• Probability Basics

• Sampling Distributions

• Biased Questions designed by the class
• Old Faithful Eruption Times
• Histogram Bin Sizes

• Two Basic Inference Procedures
• You may find it handy for your projects to have a list of random integers. This may be faster and easier than using random digits.
• Reports of Hypothesis Tests

• Consumer Price Index .

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Calvin College
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