Activity-Based Statistics: Student Guide

by Richard L. Scheaffer

Exploring Data.- Getting to Know the Class.- Measurement Bias.- The Shape of the Data.- Matching Graphs to Variables.- Matching Statistics to Graphs.- Let Us Count.- Getting Rid of the Finding the Trend.- Flick the Observing Processes Over Time.- Ratings and Ranks.- Predictable Association in Two Way Tables.- Matching Descriptions to Scatter Plots.- Random Behavior.- What's the Chance? Dependent and Independent Trials.- What Is Random Behavior?.- Streaky Runs in Binomial Trials.- The Law of Averages.- Counting A General Simulation Model.- Waiting for Reggie The Geometric Distribution.- Sampling Distributions.- Spinning Pennies.- Cents and the Central Limit Theorem.- The Law of Large Numbers and the Central Limit Theorem.- Sampling.- Random Rectangles.- Stringing Students Selection Bias.- Estimation.- Sampling Error and Estimation.- Estimating How Accurate Are the Polls?.- What Is a Confidence Interval Anyway?.- Confidence Intervals for the Percentage of Even Digits.- The Rating Game.- Capture/Recapture.- Randomized Response How to Ask Sensitive Questions.- Estimating the Difference Between Two Proportions.- The Bootstrap.- Estimating the Total of a Restaurant Bias in Estimation.- How Many Tanks?.- Estimating a Total.- Hypothesis Testing Experiments.- Statistical Evidence of The Randomization Test.- Is Your Class Differently Aged? The Chi-Square Test.- Coins on Edge.- Experiments.- Jumping Frogs.- How to Ask Designing a Survey.- Gummy Bears in Factorial Designs and Interaction.- Funnel Swirling.- Modeling.- Models, Models, Models....- The Regression Effect.- Is Your Shirt Size Related to Your Shoe Size?.- Relating to Correlation.- Projects.- Exploring Data and Improving Quality.- Improved Payment Processing in a Utilities Firm.- Sample Survey.- Application 1: A Typical Election Poll.- Application 2: The Nielsens.- Experiment.- Does Aspirin Help Prevent Heart Attacks? The Physician's Health Study.- Modeling.- Body Composition.

268 pages, Paperback

First published March 14, 1996