Welcome
to the STAtistics Zone
(AP
Statistics, Period B)
Web address shortcut for this page: www.modd.net/56stat
Are
you nervous when you see NCWEE? concerned when you see CIRC? perturbed when you
see PBC? Visit Mr. Hansen’s fabled abbreviations
page to make sense of those cryptic markings you see on your papers.
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Schedule
at a Glance (see archives for older entries) |
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T 5/16/06 |
HW due: Work with your study buddy for at least 15 minutes
outside of class. If you do not have a study buddy, come to Math Lab Monday afternoon
to work with me. Keep a written time log. |
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W 5/17/06 |
First
half: Mr. Joe Morris of the MITRE Corporation will speak on the history of
computers. This is a fascinating talk, covering many of the technologies that
we take for granted today. |
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Th 5/18/06 |
HW due: Read Lessons
from the Pentagon if you have not already done so. Then, as you did
earlier in the week, work with a study buddy (either as a person seeking
help, or as a person providing help) for at least 15 minutes outside of
class, and keep a time log of your efforts. Students who still need help
getting over the hurdle are Ben, Clay, Chris, Greg, Jeffrey, Kenny, Paul, and
Will. |
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F 5/19/06 |
Last
day of class. I know many of you still have a cut remaining, but it would
mean a lot to me if you would come to class today. I will waive the exam
requirement if 100% of students pass the Must-Pass Quiz by the end of the
day Monday, May 22. (That is an extension because of the late start we had to
yesterday’s class.) |
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M 5/22/06 |
. . . and there was much mirth and
merriment throughout the Close. All 17 students have now passed the Must-Pass
Quiz! Check out the tote board. This means, per our agreement,
that the final exam requirement is waived for everyone. |
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Essential Links:
-- College
Board: AP Statistics Course Description
-- Our textbook’s site has
online quizzes and some useful links
-- RVLS (Rice Virtual Lab in
Statistics): One of the best sites anywhere for statistics! Here you’ll
find a complete college statistics course (complete with clickable glossary and great
case studies), simulations, and some excellent analysis tools.
-- Virtual Laboratories in Probability
and Statistics (University of Alabama at Huntsville)
-- StatCrunch 3.0 (formerly WebStat):
An on-line statistical computing package (requires Java)
-- How to study
statistics (written by a professor at the University of Central Florida,
but the ideas are valid for our class)
-- Eric Weisstein’s World of
Mathematics: a monstrously huge hyperlinked reference
TI-83 Links:
-- CINT (converts confidence interval from
interval notation to the more convenient “estimate ± m.o.e.” format)
-- INVT (inverse t) program
written by Mr. Hansen and the Class of 1999
-- CHISQGOF (Chi-Square Goodness
of Fit) program also written by Mr. Hansen and the Class of 1999
-- CSDELUXE (Chi-Square Deluxe):
combines CHISQGOF and STAT TESTS C into one package; written by Mr. Hansen for
the Class of 2003
-- Modifications to SCATRBOX program
so that it returns the LSRL equation at the end (follow-on to a stat teacher
workshop I attended on 12/5/2001)
-- David Pachner’s statistical test and
confidence interval files for the
TI-83 (added 4/16/2001; not reviewed by Mr. Hansen for accuracy)
-- TI-83 programs
from Texas Instruments
Philosophical Links:
-- In praise of
Bayes: a very readable overview of the tension between the standard
(“frequentist”) approach to probability and the Bayesian view
Controversial Links:
-- Does
an elite college really pay? Article addresses the issue of whether you
would do better financially if you simply invested the difference in tuition
price.
Fun Links:
-- Least
squares regression game (requires Java): After the Java applet loads, click
the “?” icon in lower right corner for instructions.
-- Guessing
correlation coefficients by eye
-- Another
correlation game (takes longer to load, but allows you to achieve fame if
you score in the top 20 worldwide)
-- Photos from our 5/20/99 field
trip to the National Cryptologic Museum
at the NSA
-- Huge Internet gallery of statistics jokes
(warning: many are excellent, but some are dangerously lame)
-- Average age at death for rock
stars is 36.9 (vs. 75.8 for the overall population). . . this site is
religiously oriented (and apparently sincere), but the reasoning process is
seriously flawed. Can you find the problem?
-- Chance Database Welcome Page
(this is the link cited in the 4/4/99 Washington Post Unconventional Wiz
column)
-- Accident statistics (the taxicab
problem)
-- Psychological
probability quiz
-- Marilyn is Wrong! (a truly
great site, even though it doesn’t seem to include Dr. Morse’s response to
Marilyn yet)
-- Male sweat may be good for women’s health (a scholarly
article with p- and t-values)
-- Lying with statistics
-- One of the biggest marketing blunders of all time: the New Coke fiasco
-- More fun links on Mr. Hansen’s home page
Serious Links (click here)
Extra Credit (due date 4/1/2006 for
poster, 4/15/2006 for project):
-- Please speak to me if you wish to enter the ASA (American Statistical
Association) poster or
project competition
Group Projects (1998
onward):
Exploratory Data Analysis
-- Assignment (2005-06)
-- Results (1998-99)
-- Results (1999-2000)
-- Results (2000-01)
-- Results (2005-06)
Opinion Survey
-- Assignment (2000-01)
-- Results (1999-2000)
-- Results (2000-01)
Experimental Design and Execution
-- Assignment (2000-01)
-- Results (1998-99)
-- Results (2000-01)
Pairs Project on How to Lie With Statistics and P-value
Calculations
-- Assignment (2000-01)
-- List of Partners (2000-01)
Critique of a Scientific Article
-- Assignment
AP Review
-- D period (1998-99)
-- F period (1998-99)
Test #1 (Chapters 1-2 plus §3.1 of new
textbook), Sept. 2000:
-- Test #1
Old Test #1 (Introduction
through Section 2.2 of old textbook):
-- Study guide
-- Test #1D--has a residual plot question
not found in the F period version
-- Test #1F
Test #2, Oct. 1998:
-- Mr. Hansen’s study guide
-- Eric Love’s study guide
(1/12/1999 revised version)
-- Test #2 (merged version, with
comments)
Test #3 (Chapter 5) for 1999-2000
-- Answers to practice test (the practice
test was handed out in hard copy form on 11/15/1999)
-- Take-home portion distributed
11/16/1999, due 11/17/1999
Old Test #3 (Chapter 4 of old textbook):
-- Study guide
-- Test #3 (merged version)
-- Answer key
Test #4 (Sections 5.1, 5.2, 6.1 of old
textbook):
-- Study guide
-- Test #4D
-- Test #4F
Test #4 (Chapters 7 and 8 of new textbook:
random variables, binomial & geometric distributions):
-- Actual test, 1/29/2004
Test #5 (Sections 6.2, 6.3, 7.1 of old
textbook):
-- Study guide
-- Practice test
-- Answer key for practice test
(incl. correction to #18 suggested by C. Muller)
-- Test #5 (merged version)
Test #5 (Sections 7.2 through 9.1 of new
textbook):
-- Actual test, 2/6/2002
Test #6 (Sections 7.1-7.3 of old textbook):
-- Practice test
-- Answer key for practice test
-- Test #6D, with answer key
Test #6 (Chapters 9 and 10 of new textbook):
-- Actual test, 3/7/2002
Test #7 (Sections 8.1-8.3 of old textbook,
plus Chi-Square GOF):
-- Answer key for sample test problems
-- In-class portion
-- Take-home portion
Test #8 (Section 9.1 of old textbook, plus
Geometric Probability Distributions):
-- Take-home test due Wednesday
4/28/1999
-- Answer key (not yet released)
AP Exam Review
-- Real
sample AP questions from the College Board
-- TI-83 Function Summary
-- TI-83 STAT TESTS Summary,
including the assumptions you need to check
-- PHA(S)TPC procedures, a
systematic way of performing statistical tests and calculating confidence
intervals
-- LSRL Top Ten
-- Normal vs. Binomial: What are
the hallmarks and differences? (Includes many example problems, with
solutions.)
-- Formula sheet markup guide
Question of
the day: 12/15/1998
Preview of
quiz for Wednesday, 11/18/1998
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