Statistics

Math 121 - Fall 2022

• Examples
• Schedule & Syllabus
• Software
• Tables

Wednesday, August 24

• Class Data (section 02, section 04)
• Histograms & Stemplots Workshop

Friday, August 26

• US Census Bureau 2021 household income data

Monday, August 29

• Men’s heights in USA
• Farmville annual rainfall totals

Wednesday, August 31

• 68-95-99.7 Rule

Monday, September 5

• Example R values.
• Guess the Correlation Game: guessthecorrelation.com
• Blood Alcohol Content vs. Number of Beers
• Spurious correlations
• Marriage ages

Wednesday, September 7

• Midterms and regression to the mean

Thursday, September 8

• Lightning regression workshop

Wednesday, September 14

• Gallup polling & sample bias

Friday, September 16

• Bias vs. random error workshop

Monday, September 19

• Polio vaccine trials

Wednesday, September 21

• Exercise 2.22 data

Friday, September 23

• Probability models workshop

Monday, September 26

• Basic probability rules workshop

Friday, September 30

• Counterintuitive probability examples

Wednesday, October 5

• Expected value & weighted averages workshop

Friday, October 7

• Examples of random variables
• 2019 NFL kickoff distances

Monday, October 10

• Gettysburg Address sampling distribution
• Sampling distributions for weight
• Sampling distributions for NFL kickoffs

Wednesday, October 12

• Binomial distribution workshop

Monday, October 17

• Gallup poll on evolution

Monday, October 31

• Drug testing in high schools workshop

Friday, November 4

• Matched pairs questions

Monday, November 7

• Men vs. women words per day
• Cloud seeding

Wednesday, November 9

• Garcinia cambogia workshop

Thursday, November 10

• Helium filled footballs

Monday, November 14

• Choosing the right technique

Friday, November 18

• Effect size & power workshop

Monday, November 21

• Inference for linear regression
• Linear regression inference workshop

Monday, November 28

• Gender vs. self-image
• Gender vs. happiness

Thursday, December 1

• Major concepts in statistics