For October 31

For next week:

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Unit 1, Mod 2: Examining Relationships

Causation and Lurking Variables

Lab exercise: Body Image and Academic Performance of College Students

This is the end of module 2. Hopefully everyone is coming along with this and will finish this week or shortly thereafter.

In class on Thursday 

• we will talk about stats in the big outside world. Paul S. just gave me a good example which I can share with you.
• Discuss your graphs from last week and decide what else we want to do by way of exploring the m&m data

Alison

For Oct 24

Here's the next bit to get done for this week.

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Unit 1, Mod 2: Examining Relationships

Linear Relationships

--Calculate Correlation Coefficient

--Calculate & Plot a Linear Regression Line

In class on Thursday we will begin with a discussion of statistics in the big outside world. You know the drill.....

Following that you will work on analyzing and graphing the m&m data in response to one of the questions we identified last week. Feel free to add any additional questions to our planning document.

Alison

For Oct 17

Hopefully you all are moving ahead with the OLI work. Here's what you should try to get done for this Thursday:

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Unit 1, Mod 2: Examining Relationships

Role-Type Classification

Case I One Categorical & One Quantitative Variable

Case II Two Categorical Variables - Calculate Two-Way Table

Case III Two Quantitative Variables: Scatterplots - Create a Scatterplot

In class on Thursday we will begin with a discussion of statistics in the big outside world. Bring to class any uses of statistics which you come across in your daily life, so we can discuss how the statistic(s) is being used.

Following that we will discuss graphs, both problematic ones and good ones. Be on the lookout for a graph which you would like us to discuss and bring the graph to class. We will also be planning the next steps with the m&m data.

Alison

For Oct 10

Here's what you should try to get done in OLI before next Thurs:

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Continuing with Examining Distributions and One Quantitative Variable

Numerical Measures: Measures of Spread (IQR)

Numerical Measures: Boxplot - (1) Calculate 5-Number Summary; (2) Create Side-by-Side Boxplots

Numerical Measures: Standard Deviation

Wrap-Up (Distributions) - Lab exercise: Drinking habits and integrity of college students

In class on Thursday, we will begin with a discussion of statistics in the big wide world. Bring to class any uses of statistics which you come across in your daily life, so we can discuss how the statistic(s) is being used.

Following that we will discuss graphs, both problematic ones and good ones. Be on the lookout for a graph which you would like us to discuss.

Alison