Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
last week and today
Tonight:
Describe how you would take a survey to assess the motivation that students have to get a Renaissance shirt.
How would you collect the data?
What biases would you worry about?
What is the population?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
report
Goal: To show that you understand how to make and describe various
categorical and quantitative graphs and can use those graphs to
discover relationships in a large data set.
Output: A StatCrunch report that is completed and shared/emailed with
me and our RCHS statcrunch group.
Deadlines:
October 26th, Monday: Pick your data set and report it to me.
Note: your data must come from page _____ and can be chosen from the
top/bottom half. Go to Explore—Data to find your page. If that page
does not contain sufficient data, add 35 to your page number.
November 6th, Friday, 7am: Report must be completed, an email sent to
me and shared with RCHS group.
A few details:
*Categorical/quantitative graphs are both required.
*Scatterplots are not required, but are encouraged if they are
appropriate for your data. Likewise with regression equations.
*Your goal is find relationships in the data and describe them. The
most common way to do this is to graph one variable with respect to
another (movie revenue according to rating, pulse rate by gender,
etc…) However, graphs of just a single variable may be important as
well.
*This will count as a test grade.
*I will have a tutoring day in a computer lab for tech fearful!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
End of homecoming week
Due on Monday
Photograph on Monday
Friday: Fix test
Monday: Final questions
Tuesday: Test on:
Ch. 10: transformations
Linear Regression
Normal
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Review answers
b) 233.5: For each year that goes by we predict about 233.5 more aircraft flying.
c) 89.9% of the variation in aircraft flying is explained by regression on year.
d) Plug in 2 (not 1992!): predicted aircraft = 2939.9+233.5*2 = 3406.9 aircraft.
e) residual at 2 = 40, so the actual was 3406.9+40=3446.9 or 3447
f) sqrt(.899) = .948 = strong, positive, linear relationship between year and aircraft.
g) On average, my predicted number of aircraft misses by about 33.43
h) aircraft-hat = 2939.93 + 233.5(year)
i) we predict in 1990 that the number of aircraft flying is about 2939.9
Study hard! I hope this helps!!!
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Regression practice
#28 all + (e) interpret slope
#33 all + (f) interpret r + (g) interpret r^2
Monday, September 21, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
some review ideas, Unit 1
Q1 - 1.5IQR
Q3 + 1.5IQR
sd is always positive
(or zero if all the data is identical)
Categorical graphs:
bar and pie
Quantitative graphs:
stem and leaf (shows data)
boxplot (can hide shape)
ogive/cumulative freq
dotplot
histogram
Independent data makes bar graphs with similar levels
The mean is lower than the median for skewed left data
Measures of spread: IQR, sd and range
Measures of center: mean and median
Which of the above are resistant? med and IQR
Rule of thumb: 68-95-99.7
z-score formula: (x - mu)/sigma
Monday, September 14, 2009
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
normal cdf
Answers:
a) Only 0.07% of tires last longer than 40,000 miles. Not very likely!
b) 21.19% (z score is -0.8)
c) 67.31% (z scores are -0.8 and 1.2)
Tuesday night's HW
Page 113 #36
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