Welcome to the STAtistics Zone
(AP Statistics, Periods D and F; click here for abbreviations)
Schedule at a Glance (click here for schedule archives) |
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M 5/15/00 |
Work in class on designing the STA student survey for 2000-01. The original Nov. 1999 survey is available in Microsoft Word and HTML formats. We will divide into small groups to generate good ideas. Let’s make a survey that is much better than the one that was administered in November 1999! |
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T 5/16/00 |
Steering committee finalizes criteria for groups to use when writing surveys. Groups will meet for second half of class. |
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W 5/17/00 |
Field trip to National Cryptologic Museum at NSA, Fort Meade, MD. Meet at bus loading area next to the gym at 9:00 a.m. sharp. We will leave at 9:05 a.m., so don’t be late. You will be excused from your B, C, D, and E periods if you come on the field trip. F period class will be held at the normal time for those who do not attend the field trip. In order to avoid an unexcused absence, you must do at least one of the following: |
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Th 5/16/00 |
Work on survey project. Be sure you follow the D period or F period guidelines approved by the steering committee for your group. For your convenience, the original Nov. 1999 survey is available in Microsoft Word and HTML formats. |
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F 5/19/00 |
Last day of class. Final survey project (100 points per person) is due. Grading criteria are as follows and will be equally weighted: |
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Th 5/25/00 |
Final Exam, 2:00 p.m., Trapier Theater. Anyone with a B (or higher) semester average who has already taken the AP exam is exempt from taking the final exam. Seniors with a B semester average are exempt even if they have not taken the AP exam. Anyone with a semester average below B must take the final exam, regardless of AP exam status. If you think you might be in danger of having to take the final exam, send e-mail and I will reply with your scores as soon as they are averaged. |
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F 6/2/00 |
Prize Day: Please turn in your copy of How to Lie With Statistics if you have not already done so. The best time is from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. in Room S. If you prefer to purchase your copy, please bring a check for $9.00 payable to St. Albans School. | ||||
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Essential Links:
-- College Board: AP Statistics Main Menu
-- 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 (for example, click here or here to see balls falling through a grid of nails), and some excellent analysis tools.
-- WebStat 2.0: An on-line statistical computing package (requires Java)
-- How to study statistics (written by an Australian university professor, but the ideas are valid for our class)
TI-83 Links:
-- TI-83 programs from Texas Instruments
-- More TI-83 programs (untested)
Fun Links:
-- Guess the correlation coefficient! My best score so far for 5 scatterplots is 0.9957. Can you beat this?
-- Another correlation game (takes longer to load, but allows you to achieve fame if you score in the top 20 worldwide)
-- Least squares regression game (requires Java): After the Java applet loads, click the "?" icon in lower right corner for instructions.
-- 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?
-- A formal mathematical proof that approximately seven shuffles are required for good randomization of a 52-card deck (note: requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
-- 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)
-- Use of Chips Ahoy cookies in statistics
-- The amazing Banach-Tarski Paradox, which apparently permits any sphere to be cut and reassembled into two spheres, each having the volume of the original sphere
-- More fun links on Mr. Hansen's home page
Serious Links (click here)
Extra Credit (4/15/2000 due date):
-- ASA Project Competition
-- ASA Poster Competition
This Year's Group Projects (1999-2000):
1st Quarter (Exploratory Data Analysis)
-- Assignment
-- Results
2nd Quarter (Survey)
-- Assignment
-- Results
3rd Quarter (Experiment)
-- Assignment
-- Results
Last Year's Group Projects (1998-99):
1st Quarter (Exploratory Data Analysis)
-- Results
2nd Quarter (Experimental Design and Execution)
-- Results
3rd Quarter (Critique of a Scientific Article)
-- Assignment
4th Quarter (AP Review)
-- D period
-- F period
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 (Sections 2.3 through 3.4 of old textbook):
-- 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)
Test #4 (Sections 5.1, 5.2, 6.1 of old textbook):
-- Study guide
-- Test #4D
-- Test #4F
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 #6 (Sections 7.1-7.3 of old textbook):
-- Practice test
-- Answer key for practice test
-- Test #6D, with answer key
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 at 3:30 p.m.
-- Answer key (not yet released)
AP Exam Review
-- TI-83 Function Summary
-- TI-83 STAT TESTS Summary
Question of the day: 12/15/1998
Preview of quiz for Wednesday, 11/18/1998
Return to Mr. Hansen's home page
Last updated: 01 Jun 2000