Math 102 / Core 143: List of displays from class

General

• Some quotations

Unit 1

• "Ann Landers" column on single parents
• Examples of bad experiments
• "Don't do online surveys!"
• Toy examples of Simpson's paradox

Unit 2

• Graph: Growth of e-shopping
• Graph: Men as % of women at various ages
• Skewed histogram of weekly salaries
• How changes in a list affect average and SD
• Effect of outliers on average, etc.
• A regular icosahedron (20-sided solid)
• 1000 (simulated) rolls of a 20-sided die

Unit 3

Unit 4

• Computing the correlation coefficient
• Examples contrasting the standard and covariance methods of computing the correlation coefficient
• Effect of outliers on the correlation coefficient, SD-line and regression line
• Local SAT scores (ecological correlation)

Unit 5

• Path of a ball (residues)
• Multiple regression in MSExcel

Unit 6

• How do binomial probabilities arise?
• Ways to order 3 things out of 5
• Table of probabilities for the birthday-matching problem
• Monty Hall: Staying wins
• Monty Hall: Switching wins

Unit 7

• Non-logarithmic graph of Kerrich's data
• List of games, examples of EV and SE

Unit 8

• Probability histograms, p. 316, not in standard units
• Probability histograms, p. 320, not in standard units
• Probability histograms, p. 322, not in standard units

Unit 9

• Toy examples of polls, for computations

Unit 10

• Examples for significance tests

Unit 11

• List of formulas in this course
• Introduction to one-way ANOVA

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