assignments
One
due Thursday January 21
- Read
- chapters 1 and 2 in Elementary Statistics
- Read chapters 5 and 6 in How to Lie with Statistics
- Do
- Exercises 14 and 24 from chapter 1 on pgs 27,28
- Number 3 on pg 30. Discuss the pros and cons of
what's a "cause" and what's a "correlation" here.
What details of the study would you want to hear about
to decide whether piano lessons cause math profiency?
- Plot two sets of data on a histogram, using Excel.
- Exercise section 2-2, #11 on pg 43
- Data Analysis 1 on pg 89
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