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Stats & Probability:
Spring Class Notes
Hello all you Manual Mathletes! I will try to upload notes at least once each week. If you do not find what you are looking for, please let me know and I'll try to include it.
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Review Material
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Jan 4: REVIEW & Preview
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Survey Question - Have you heard of...?
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New Year's Resolutions - Life KIT Link
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Social Media - Dynamic Time plot (1997-2020)
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Social Dilemma Preview
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? Topic
Week of Jan 9 to 13
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Jan 10: Review Material Video: Density Curves, Empirical Rule & Normality
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What is the Normal Distribution? Video
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Jan 12: Bivariate Data & Correlation
Week of Jan 16 to 20
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Jan 18: Addition & Multiplication Rules
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Jan 20: Backpack Artifacts -overview and create
Week of Jan 23 to 27
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NCTM Applet for Linear Regression**
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Linear Regression 1: Why is it called "Least Squares" regression line?
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Linear Regression 2: Centroid, Predicting r and slope
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** Must use Mozilla (Firefox) to support Applet**
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Statistics on Jobs: Obama's Jobs Statistics
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Jan 19: Intro to Least Squares Regression Line (LSRL)
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Video Help - Here is a link to a set of 4 videos that detail linear regression. Specifically, videos 3 & 4 Clarifying SS Total vs SS Residual
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Video 1 - Simple Linear Regression
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Video 2 - Clarifying form of LSRL equation
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Video 3 - Least Squares criterion
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Video 4 - How good is the fit (r squared)
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Correlation vs causation examples:
Week of Feb 6-10
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Conditional Probability
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Probability of Successive events
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Feb 10 - Probability practice Warm-UP
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Test review time in class
Week of Feb 13-17
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Test Review on Feb 14 (HW 8 DUE)
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Test Review Answers
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TEST 1 - Probability on Feb 16
Week of Feb 20-24
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Feb 20 & 21: NO School for students
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Feb 22: Backpack Defense!
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Feb 24 - Intro to Experimental Design
Week of Feb 27 to March 3
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Steps for Research Design
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Understanding p-values
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TED-Ed: What is a p-value?
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(Never saw the Fugitive?)
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Understanding Null Hypothesis Testing
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Understanding Inferential Processes
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April & May Notes
FUTURE TOPICS
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MARCH - Experimental Design
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Class Notes Chapter 2 PPT
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Overview of Experimental Design
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Difference b/t confounding and lurking variables
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MARCH ? Surveys and Sampling
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Sampling Bias: What problems arise with surveys? Selection bias vs. response bias
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What is a point estimate?
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What is hypothesis testing?
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Video Link: Intro to Hypothesis Tests
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Review: Video for calculation of Standard Deviation
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Video explaining Standard Deviation
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Apr 4-8: Review Distributions
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Apr18-22: Probability Intro: Basics & Notation
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Links to...
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Apr 20-29:
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30 Day Project RUBRIC
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Sample 30 Day Project Reports
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May 9/10: Chapter 7 - Random Variables 7.1 & 7.2
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Variables vs. Random variables? See here for more..
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or this short video overview
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Extra Credit: Random Variables: Notation