Statistics

Syllabus: 2014 SBG handout: Standards: Stats homework: Stats videos

8-15: Africa is not a country

Experiments Ebola treatment and The unnamed treatment

Articles for analyzing experiments and studies: Option 1: Summarize and Defend what type of study it is Option 2: Electrical shocks and math or shocks 2Summarize and name the 4 parts of an experiment. They may not directly state it. If you are making an assumption, make sure you tell your partner that.

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Read before Moneyball Moneyball

Homework: Choose one of the articles and answer the questions on the articles. If you do not like sports, you may choose a chapter from this book (as a collective group): Freakonomics

1-4 Monty Hall

Feb 3 Assignment: Watch the two videos here and answer question 1 below. []

The results of the study are here. Use this for questions 2-7. [] 1. Write 2 questions you had after watching video 2. State who was sampled. Be specific 3. Read the summary of the results on pages 41-43. Write one that surprised you/you found interesting. Skim the results from the bottom of page 7 through the chart on page 9. (Hint: the key is on the bottom of page 9) 4.What are some of the key statistical terms mentioned in this section? 5.What p-values did they find? 6. Based on the chart, were there any results that were not significant? 7. I know that you may be slightly confused by the results, but I want you to tell me 1 thing that you understand from the reading now that you didn’t know when you started statistics. Due Friday at the start of class. (10 points)

Option 1: Sports Read Analytics in sports and then Data in sports. While reading the 2nd article, look for terms we have talked about in this class. Option 2: Happy States: Read Summary report and then Happiness Index report. While skimming the 2nd article, think about concepts we have talked about in class. Where is the connection?