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BYU | STATS 221
Introduction To Stats
Professors
- Nielson,
- Carlson,
- Hurber,
- Louis,
- Mckell
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E V E R Y T H I N G V A R I E S ! UNIT 8 1 Homepage Introduction Exercise 1: Recognizing Individuals as Unique Exercise 2: Matching Leaves Exercise 3: Using Math to Make Decisions about Variation Exercise 4: Matching Shells Exercise List continued 2
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Session 1: April 17 Introduction development of JSOs Initial assessment considerations & procedures Session 2 Treatment planning What does and doesnt work Treatment approaches Sessio
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OrganizingData Chapter2Section3 October4,2010 Mr.KennethHorwitz 1 BarGraphs 2 FactsaboutBarGraphs Bargraphscanbeverticalorhorizontal.With spacesbetweenthebars. Thelengthorheightofthebarsrepresentthe frequencies. Thedatashowninabargraphcanbeeither qualitat
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Histograms,Frequency PolygonsandOgives Chapter2Section2 September29,2010 Mr.KennethHorwitz 1 Chapter2 FrequencyDistributionsand Graphs Inyournotes CreateaFrequencyDistributionfor p.61#2 2 22Histograms,Frequency Polygons,andOgives 3MostCommonGraphsinResear
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AdditionandMultiplication RulesforProbability HonorsStatistics Mr.KennethHorwitz Lesson4.24.3 4.2AdditionRulesforProbability Twoeventsaremutuallyexclusiveeventsifthey cannotoccuratthesametime(i.e.,theyhaveno outcomesincommon) Addition Rules P ( A or B ) =
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CountingRules HonorsStatistics Mr.KennethHorwitz Lessons4.4and4.5 4.4CountingRules nThefundamentalcountingruleisalsocalled themultiplicationofchoices. nInasequenceofneventsinwhichthefirst onehask1possibilitiesandthesecondevent hask2andthethirdhask3,andsof
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Chapter4 HonorsStatistics ProbabilityandCounting Rules Mr.KennethHorwitz Chapter4Objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. Determinesamplespacesandfindtheprobability ofanevent,usingclassicalprobabilityor empiricalprobability. Findtheprobabilityofcompoundevents,using theaddi
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Chapter6Section3 TheCentralLimitTheorem November1,2010 Mr.KennethHorwitz 1 TheCentralLimitTheorem Inadditiontoknowinghowindividualdatavaluesvary aboutthemeanforapopulation,statisticiansare interestedinknowinghowthemeansofsamplesofthe samesizetakenfromthes
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FACTS Albert Gonzalez (defendant), a twenty-five year old male, drove up to the San Ysidro Port of Entry (California) in an extended-cab pickup on March 23, 2005. Although he told the border inspector he had nothing to declare, the inspector became suspic
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N.GregoryMankiw PowerPoint Slides by Ron Cronovich CHAPTE R 2 The Data of Macroeconomics Modified for EC 204 by Bob Murphy 2010 Worth Publishers, all rights reserved SEVENTH EDITION MACROECONOMICS MACROECONOMICS Inthischapter,youwilllearn: Inthischapter,
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StatisticalModelling (SpecialTopic:SEM) BidinYatim,PhD AssociateProfessor inStatistics CollegeofArtandScience UUM. P h d A p p l i e d Sta t i st i c s ( E xete r U K ) , M S c I n d u st ri a l M a th s ( A sto n , U K ) B S c M a th s & Sta t s ( Not t
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Chapter6Section4 TheNormalapproximationto theBinomialDistribution November3,2010 Mr.KennethHorwitz TheNormalApproximationtothe BinomialDistribution Anormaldistributionisoftenusedtosolveproblems thatinvolvethebinomialdistributionsincewhennis large(say,100)
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Constitution of the United States Article 1 Section 3. Apportionment of Representatives and direct taxes Representatives [and direct taxes] shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included with this Union, according to their respective
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Scientific Communication OswaldVanCleemput FacultyofBioscienceEngineering GhentUniversity Belgium Oswald.Vancleemput@Ugent.be http:/www.isofys.UGent.be Content 1. Introduction 2. Scientificversuspopularsciencewriting 3.Generalinformationonsciencewriting 4
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Chapter6 Section1 TheNormalDistribution Mr.KenHorwitz October27,2010 1 NormalDistributions Manycontinuousvariableshavedistributionsthat arebellshapedandarecalledapproximately normallydistributedvariables. Thetheoreticalcurve,calledthebellcurveorthe Gaussi
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ApplicationsoftheNormal Distribution Chapter6Section2 October27,2010 Mr.KennethHorwitz 1 ApplicationsoftheNormal Distributions Thestandardnormaldistributioncurvecanbeused tosolveawidevarietyofpracticalproblems. Theonlyrequirementisthatthevariablebe normal
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MeasuresofPosition Chapter3Section3 DataDescription Mr.KennethHorwitz October13,2010 1 33MeasuresofPosition Zscore Percentile Quartile Outlier 2 MeasuresofPosition:Zscore Azscoreorstandardscoreforavalueisobtained bysubtractingthemeanfromthevalueand dividi
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Chapter3 DataDescription 1 3.4ExploratoryDataAnalysis TheFiveNumberSummaryis composedofthefollowingnumbers: Low, Q1, MD, Q3, High TheFiveNumberSummarycanbe graphicallyrepresentedusinga Boxplot. 2 ProcedureTable ConstructingBoxplots 1. Findthefivenumbersum
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MeasuresofVariation Chapter3 Section2 Mr.KennethHorwitz October13,2010 1 MeasuresofVariation HowCanWeMeasureVariability? Range Variance StandardDeviation CoefficientofVariation ChebyshevsTheorem EmpiricalRule(Normal) 2 MeasuresofVariation:Range Ther
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MeasuresofCentralTendency Chapter3 MAT150 SECTION1 Mr.KennethHorwitz 1 Introduction TraditionalStatistics Average Variation Position 2 Statisticvs.Population Astatisticisacharacteristicormeasureobtained byusingthedatavaluesfromasample. Aparameterisacharac
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Chapter8Section6 AdditionalTopics RegardingHypothesis Testing Mr.KennethHorwitz AdditionalTopicsRegarding HypothesisTesting Thereisarelationshipbetweenconfidenceintervalsand hypothesistesting. Whenthenullhypothesisisrejectedinahypothesistesting situation,
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Chapter1 Review Mr.KennethHorwitz September15,2010 DoNow Applyingtheconceptsp.56, CheckyourworkonP.33 Applyingtheconceptsp.9, CheckyourworkonP.33 Applyingtheconceptsp.13, CheckyourworkonP.33 Applyingtheconceptsp.16 CheckyourworkonP.33 Questions? Then P.29
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Chapter8Section5 TestforaVarianceora StandardDeviation Mr.KennethHorwitz TestforaVarianceora 2 StandardDeviation Thechisquaredistributionisalsousedtotestaclaimabouta singlevarianceorstandarddeviation. Theformulaforthechisquaretestforavarianceis n 1) s 2 (
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Chapter8Section4 ZTestforaProportion Mr.KennethHorwitz zTestforaProportion Sinceanormaldistributioncanbeusedtoapproximatethe binomialdistributionwhennp 5andnq 5,thestandard normaldistributioncanbeusedtotesthypothesesfor proportions. Theformulafortheztestf
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Chapter8 Section1 StepsInHypothesis TestingTraditional Method Mr.KennethHorwitz HypothesisTesting Threemethodsusedtotesthypotheses: 1.Thetraditionalmethod 2.ThePvaluemethod 3.Theconfidenceintervalmethod StepsinHypothesisTesting TraditionalMethod Astatisti
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Chapter8 Section2 ZTestforaMean Mr.KennethHorwitz December1,2010 zTestforaMean Theztestisastatisticaltestforthemeanofapopulation.Itcan beusedwhenn 30,orwhenthepopulationisnormally distributedands isknown. Theformulafortheztestis X z= n where X =samplemea
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Chapter8Section3 tTestforaMean Mr.KennethHorwitz 8.3tTestforaMean Thettestisastatisticaltestforthemeanofapopulationandis usedwhenthepopulationisnormallyorapproximately normallydistributed,isunknown. Theformulaforthettestis X t= sn Thedegreesoffreedomared
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Confidenceintervalsand Samplesize Chapter7Section4 Mr.KennethHorwitz November22,2010 1 Whydoweneedconfidence intervalsforvariancesand Whenproductsthatfittogether(suchaspipes)are standarddeviations? manufactured,itisimportanttokeepthevariationsofthe diamet
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Chapter7 Section1 ConfidenceIntervalsand SampleSize Mr.KennethHorwitz November10,2010 1 ConfidenceIntervalsforthe MeanWhens IsKnownand A point SampleSize estimate is a specific numerical value estimate of a parameter. The best point estimate of the popul
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Chapter7 Section2 ConfidenceIntervalsand SampleSize Mr.KennethHorwitz November15,2010 1 ConfidenceIntervalsforthe MeanWhens IsUnknown Thevalueofs ,whenitisnotknown,mustbeestimatedby usings,thestandarddeviationofthesample. Whensisused,especiallywhenthesamp
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Chapter7 Section3 ConfidenceIntervalsand SampleSizefor Proportions Mr.KennethHorwitz November17,2010 1 SymbolsUsedinProportion Notation p=populationproportion p (readphat)=sampleproportion Forasampleproportion, X p= n and nX q= n or q =1 p whereX=numberof
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Differentiation Revealed: A Systematic Approach for Addressing Critical Differences Among Students Jeanne H. Purcell, Ph.D Connecticut State Department of Education jeanne.purcell@po.state.ct .us 1 Curriculum Differentiation: Todays Agenda Is curriculum
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HonorsStatistics Chapter2Section1 Mr.KennethHorwitz Lesson2.1 Youhavegathereddata.Now what? Youneedtoorganizethedatainsomemeaningful way. Thisorganizationwillhelpyoudotheappropriate computationalprocedures. Itwillhelpyoudrawchartsandgraphstoillustrate con
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Usecomputerspeakersor Telephone:(312)8780211 AccessCode:206468740 Ifyoudonthearaudio,openthepanelintheupper rightcornerofyourscreenandchecktheaudio settings.Ifonphone,trycallinginagain. TeachingManagement Sciencein2011 UsingSpreadsheetModeling andDecision
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MAT150StatisticsI Lesson1 Mr.Horwitz September8,2010 Whatisthiscourseabout? Whatisstatistics? WhyshouldIstudystatistics? Howcanstudyingstatisticshelpmeinmy profession? TheTruth Youareexposedtostatisticseveryday. Tidevs.Theleadingbrand 4of5dentistssurveyed
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MAT150StatisticsI Lesson2 Mr.Horwitz September13,2010 Chapter1Sections35 Designastatisticalstudy Whattypeofstudyareyougoingtodo? Identifythevariablesofinterestandthepopulation ofthestudy. Developaplanforcollectingdata.Ifyouusea sample,makesurethesampleisr
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Generalizations to Complete Demand Systems (1) Socio-Demographic Variables The treatment of demographic effects in the context of demand systems dates from Barten (1964) and more recently from Parks and Barten; Lau, Lin, and Yotopoulos; Muellbauer; and Po
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Apportionment Honors Statistics Mr. Horwitz 10/25/2009 Lets say we have We need to apportion representatives for student council for grades 10-12. Grade Total population 10 464 11 240 12 196 Reps for 10th grade =10 Reps for 11th grade = 5 Reps for 12th gr
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QualityControl Chapter4Fundamentals ofStatistics PowerPointpresentationtoaccompany Besterfield QualityControl,8e PowerPointscreatedbyRosidaCoowar Besterfield: Quality Control, 8th ed. 2009 Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458. All rights reser
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OSHA Update and Safety and Health Management Systems 2009 DOL Forum Jim Shelton, Houston North Topic Areas OSHA Update and Emphasis Areas Business Case Elements of an Effective Safety Program OSHA Compliance Assistance Overview Finding Safety Resourc
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Using Institutional Effectiveness to Build a Culture of Performance Improvement Department of Institutional Research and Effectiveness St. Petersburg College P.O. Box 13489 St. Petersburg, FL 33733 (727) 341-3059 FAX (727) 341-5411 2007 SACS-COC Annual Me
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Chapter 2 Patterns of Crime CRIMINOLOGY TODAY An Integrative Introduction, 4/E by Frank Schmalleger PRENTICE HALL 2006 Pearson Education, Inc. Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458 Learning Objectives Explain the history of statistical crime data collection and a
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Chapter One: An Introduction to Business Statistics Statistics Applications in Business and Economics Basic Vocabulary Terms Populations and Samples Dr. Constance Lightner- Fayetteville State Univ 1 Applications in Business and Economics Accounting Public
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the s tatis tic al analys is o f data by Dr. Dang Quang A & Dr. Bui The Hong Hanoi Institute of Information Technology 1 Preface Statistics is the science of collecting, organizing and interpreting numerical and nonnumerical facts, which we call data. T
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Copyright 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley Slide 25- 1 Chapter 25 Paired Samples and Blocks Copyright 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley Paired Data Data are paired when the observations are
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Chapter 2: The Normal Distributions Section 2.1: Density curves and the Normal Distributions rom chapter 1 we have a strategy for exploring data on a single quantitative variable: lot your data: make a graph, usually a histogram or a stemplot. ook for the
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Chapter 3: Examining Relationships Intro: This section is going to focus on relationships among several variables for the same group of individuals. In these relationships, does one variable cause the other variable to change? In this relationship we can
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Copyright 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley Slide 2- 1 Chapter 2 Data Copyright 2007 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley What Are Data? Data can be numbers, record names, or other labels. Not all da
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Chapter 1 Exploring Data Intro: Statistics is the science of data. We begin our study of statistics by mastering the art of examining data. Any set of data contains information about some group of individuals. The information is organized in variables. 2
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Chapter 4: More on TwoVariable Data Section 4.1: Transforming Relationships Nonlinear relationships between two quantitative variables can sometimes be changed into linear relationships by transforming one or both of the variables. When the variable bein
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Chapter21 Simulation toaccompany OperationsResearch:ApplicationsandAlgorithms 4theditionbyWayneL.Winston Copyright(c)2004Brooks/Cole,adivisionofThomsonLearning,Inc. Description Simulation is a very powerful and widely used management science technique for
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Chi-square test Chi-square or 2 test Whatifweareinterestedinseeing ifmycrazydiceareconsidered fair? WhatcanIdo? Chi-square test Chi-square Usedtotestthecountsofcategorical data Threetypes Goodnessoffit(univariate) Independence(bivariate) Homogeneity
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Regression Regression y = + x t hg e W i What would you expect How much for weigh This She ouldother distributionadult w could an heights? v ormally is narying amounts if female weigh 60 60 60 60 62 62 62 64 64 64 66 66 68 68 Height in other words, distr
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Two-Sample Inference Procedures with Means Suppose we have a population of adult men with a mean height of 71 inches and standard deviation of 2.6 inches. We also have a population of adult women with a mean height of 65 inches and standard deviation of 2
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Two-Sample Two-Sample Proportions Inference Inference Sampling Distributions for the Sampling difference in proportions difference Whentossingpennies,theprobabilityofthecoinlandingonheadsis0.5.However, whenspinningthecoin,theprobabilityofthecoinlandingonh
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Errors in Hypothesis Tests Errors When you perform a hypothesis test you make a decision: you reject H0 or fail to reject H0 When you make one of these decisions, there is a possibility that you could be wrong! That you made an error! There are two decisi
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Inference on Proportions Assumptions: SRS Normal distribution np > 10 10 Population is at least 10n Formula for Confidence interval: CI = statistic critical value( SD of statistic ) Normal curve p z* p (1 p ) n Note: For confidence interval
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Sampling Distributions of Proportions Proportions The dotplot is a partial graph of Tosshe sampling distribution of all a penny 20 times and record t the number of heads. sample sample proportions of size 20. If I found all the possible Calculate the prop
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Power of a test Power The power of a test (against a power specific alternative value) Istheprobabilitythatthetestwillrejectthe nullhypothesiswhenthealternativeistrue Inpractice,wecarryoutthetestinhopeof showingthatthenullhypothesisisfalse,so highpoweri
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Hypothesis Tests Hypothesis OneSampleMeans HowcanItelliftheyreallyare Example2:Agovernmentagencyhas underweight? receivednumerouscomplaintsthata particularrestauranthasbeenselling Hypothesis test underweighthamburgers.Therestaurant will help me advertises
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Confidence Intervals Rate your confidence Rate 0 - 100 Name my age within 10 years? within 5 years? within 1 year? Shooting a basketball at a wading pool, will make basket? Shooting the ball at a large trash can, will make basket? Shooting the ball at
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Chapter 7 Chapter Special Discrete Distributions Binomial Distribution B(n,p) Binomial Each trial results in one of two mutually exclusive outcomes. (success/failure) There are a fixed number of trials Outcomes of different trials are independent The
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Sampling Distributions Parameter A number that describes the population Symbols we will use for parameters include - mean standard deviation proportion (p) y-intercept of LSRL slope of LSRL Statistic A number that that can be computed from sample d
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Chapter 2 Chapter ExperimentalDesign Definitions: 1)Observationalstudyobserveoutcomes withoutimposinganytreatment 2)Experimentactivelyimposesome treatmentinordertoobservetheresponse Ivedevelopedanewrabbitfood,HippityHop. Makes fur soft & shiny! Rabbit Foo
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Continuous Distributions Distributions Continuousrandomvariables Continuousrandomvariables Are numerical variables whose values fall within a range or interval Are measurements Can be described by density curves Density curves Density Are always on or ab
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Discrete Distributions Random Variable Random A numerical variable whose value depends on the outcome of a chance experiment Two types: Two Discrete count of some random variable Continuous measure of some random variable Discrete Probability Distributi
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Sampling Design Design How do we gather data? How Surveys Opinionpolls Interviews Studies Observational Retrospective(past) Prospective(future) Experiments Population Population the entire group of individuals that we want information about Censu
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Correlation Suppose we found the age and weight of a sample of 10 adults. Create a scatterplot of the data below. Is there any relationship between the age and weight of these adults? Age 24 30 41 28 50 46 49 35 20 39 Wt 256 124 320 185 158 129 103 196 11
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Chapter 5 Residuals, Residual Plots, the LSRL the sum of the residuals is always zero always error = observed - expected residual = y y Residual plot Res
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Probability Denoted by P(Event) favorable outcomes P( E ) = total outcomes This method for calculating probabilities is only appropriate when the outcomes of the sample space are equally likely. Experimental Probability The relative frequency at which a
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Chapter 5 LSRL Bivariate data x variable: is the independent or explanatory variable y- variable: is the dependent or response variable Use x to predict y y = a + bx y - (y-hat) means the predicted y b is the slope it is the amountBe sure to increases
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Sample space the collection of all possible outcomes of a chance experiment Roll a die S=cfw_1,2,3,4,5,6 Event any collection of outcomes from the sample space Rolling a prime # E= cfw_2,3,5 Rolling a prime # or even number E=cfw_2,3,4,5,6 Complement
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Counting, Permutations, & Combinations A counting problem asks how many ways some event can occur. Ex. 1: How many three-letter codes are there using letters A, B, C, and D if no letter can be repeated? One way to solve is to list all possibilities. Ex.
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Why is the study of variability important? important? Allows us to distinguish between usual & unusual values In some situations, want more/less variability scores on standardized tests time bombs medicine Measures of Variability Measures range (max
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Density Curves Can be created by smoothing histograms ALWAYS on or above the horizontal axis Has an area of exactly one underneath it Describes the proportion of observations that fall within a range of values Is often a description of the overall distri
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Why use boxplots? ease of construction convenient handling of outliers construction is not subjective (like histograms) Used with medium or large size data sets (n > 10) useful for comparative displays Disadvantage of boxplots does not retain the in
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Means50th percentile Observationsmustbeinnumeric
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Chapter 1 summarizing data Inferential statistics involves making generalizations from a sample to a population Popul
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