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Statistics: A Math Unifier

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Course Outline

Cooperative Group Activities

Unit 1: Visual Display of Data
    Prerequisites and Objectives
    Activity 1: Dot Plots and Stem Plots
    Activity 2: Histograms
    Activity 3: Beyond the Stat Packs
    File containing all unit activities

Unit 2: Describing Data Numerically
    Prerequisites and Objectives
    Activity 1: Measures of Center
    Activity 2: The Spread of a Distribution
    Activity 3: Measures of Spread - Variance and Standard Deviation
    File containing all unit activities

Unit 3: Automating Descriptive Analysis
    Prerequisites and Objectives
    Activity 1: Mean-Based Statistics with Technology
    Activity 2: Analyzing Used Car Prices
    Activity 3: Tossing Cotton Balls
    File containing all unit activities

Unit 4: Linear Regression - Paired Data and Line Fitting
    Prerequisites and Objectives
    Activity 1: Scatter Plots and the Median Fit Line
    Activity 2: The Least Squares Line
    Activity 3: Correlation - How Linear is the Data?
    File containing all unit activities

Unit 5: The Sampling Distribution of the Mean
    Prerequisites and Objectives
    Activity 1: The Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean and the Central Limit Theorem
    Activity 2: Point Estimation of the Mean and Standard Deviation from Large Samples
    Activity 3: Putting Bounds on the Error of Estimation
    File containing all unit activities

Minitab Data Files:
abs-mtem.mtw, mileage.mtw, SAT88_89.mtw, SAT89_90.mtw

 

 


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