| Date |
Agenda |
Reading Assignment |
| January 14 |
Overview and activities
to get started |
Innumeracy Chapter 1 SCC Chapters 1&2 How polls are conducted |
| January 16 |
Producing Data and
Counting |
Innumeracy Chapter 2 SCC Chapters 3, 4, 10, 11, & 12 |
| January 21 |
Graphical Displays and Descriptive
Statistics |
Innumeracy Chapter 3 SCC Chapters 5 & 6 Asthma Attacks More Common on Foggy Nights |
| January 23 |
Graphical and Numerical Summaries
with Minitab and Design of Experiments |
Innumeracy Chapter 4 SCC Chapters 7, 8, & 9 ThinkFive Project The Unkindest Cut Placebos Prove So Powerful Even Experts Are Surprised |
| January 28 |
Design and Data |
Innumeracy Chapter 5 |
| January 30 |
Conditional Probability, Simpson's Paradox,
and Bayes' Rule |
SCC Chapter 13 |
| February 4 |
Normal Distributions and Statistical
Controversies |
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
Section 1 |
| February
6 |
Capture-Recapture |
Prepare
for Quiz 1 |
| February
11 |
Quiz 1 (Word document) |
SCC
Chapters 14 & 15 Bring two hardcopies of an article dealing with correlation and/or regression to class on Thursday |
| February
13 |
Association,
Causation, and Regression |
SCC
Chapter 16 |
| February
18 |
Regression Models and Causation |
SCC
Chapter 20 The Regression Effect The Regression Effect in Hockey |
| February
20 |
Regression Effect and Government Statistics |
Skim SCC
Chapters 17-19 Census Sampling Confusion With statistical sampling off-limits, the Census Bureau turns to 'imputing' |
| February 25 |
Problem Session, Class Discussion, and Class
Debate |
Prepare for Quiz
2 |
| February 27 |
Quiz 2 (Word document) |
|
| March 18 |
Inferences for A Population Proportion |
SCC Chapters
20 and 21 Postmenopausal Hormones - Therapy for Symptoms Only Effects of Estrogen plus Progestin on Health-Related Quality of Life |
| March 20 |
Hypothesis Testing for a Population Proportion |
SCC Chapters
22 and 23 Bad Medicine: Why data from drug companies may be hard to swallow |
| March 25 |
Hypothesis Testing for a Population Mean |
SCC Chapter 25 The Canadians Should Have Won!? |
| March 27 |
Deciding
Who is Number One |
SCC Chapter 24 |
| April 1 |
Two-Way
Tables and Testing for Association with Categorical Variables |
Fairness
or favoritism? |
| April 3 |
Inferences
based on the chi-square test statistic Student Presentation - Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli p:\data\math\QR\CSS-Class.MPJ |
|
| April 8 |
Problem Session
and Review |
Prepare for Quiz 3 |
| April 10 |
Quiz 3 |
Prepare for Presentations |
| April 15 |
Student Presentations Cyrstal Chinn Claire McGinnis Beth Kozlowski - Table Meg Seitz |
|
| April 17 |
Student Presentations Courtney Snow Tyler Bullen - Page 2 Rebecca Frank Elizabeth Gutting Kristen Orlando Samantha duPont |
|
| April 22 |
Preparing Posters with Power Point - Final
Project |
|
| April 24 |
Student Presentations Britta Dulac Andrea Daly Dabney West Catherine Welch Greson Torchio Eric Raicovich - Power Point Presenation |
|
| April 29 |
Student Presentations Anna Curtis Josh Venter Elliot Grossman Natalie Stack Quiz 4 |
Preparation for final project |
| May 1 |
Final Project Course and Instructor Evaluations Individual conversations about overall percentages |
|
| May 7 |
Poster Session |
Resources at Other Institutions
Cases Studies for Teaching QL/QR
QL/QR Bloopers
QR Resources
Publications
Chance
Journal of Statistics Education
Science Magazine
Polls and Surveys
The Gallup Organization
Current Population Survey
Nielsen Media Research
NORC (A National Organization for Research at the University of Chicago)
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Public Policy
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Research Areas and ReportsThe National Center for Public Policy Research
Public Agenda Online
RAND
Online RAND Research DocumentsPioneer Institute for Public Policy Research
White Papers and Other Publications
Medical Reports
The Journal of the American Medical Association
The New England Journal of Medicine
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Scientific Data
Government Resources
Bureau of Labor Statistics
FedStats (U.S. Federal Agencies)
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Census Bureau
Tools
Research Randomizer
Drug Testing
Stock Scams