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Displays
and Analyses
Various displays
and analyses are available for your viewing. Menus given
below lists each document by name, along with a short
description of the data and/or purpose of the analysis.
If you can't find what you're looking for either it hasn't
been placed on the server (sorry! I'll get to it) or I've
made a mistake constructing and/or linking the
information. In either case, please inform me.
Course materials
are currently separated into 5 broad categories. To go
directly to the menu for the topic you are interested in,
choose from the Quick Search options. Or. . .browse the remainder of
this page and see what's available.
Data Set
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Description
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| Longevity
of Syracusans |
A study examining the gender and
age at death of recently departed residents of
Syracuse. |
| Starting
Salaries |
A look at starting salaries for
graduates of two of SUNY Oswego's majors. |
| Foreign Aid |
See some
data I collected from students. How much foreign
aid do they think our government is doling out? |
| Why Pie Charts Stink! |
Looking at a pie chart and a bar
chart and understanding why there's a more
effective alternative. |
| Weights of Adult Males |
How do they vary? Does the
empirical rule (the 68-95-99.7 rule) apply here? |
| Standard Normal Distribution |
Finding relative frequencies for
a standard normal variable. |
| Ages of
Two Groups in a Randomized Experiment |
A study randomly allocates
children into two groups in order to compare two
antibiotics for treating strep throat. How do the
ages of the two groups compare? |
Data Set
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Description
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| Procter &
Gamble |
Measuring risk and performance in
the stock market. |
| Temperature and gas usage |
How my gas use (for heating)
depends on the average monthly temperature. |
| Optimizing crop yield |
An experiment designed to compare
the effect of varying levels of fertilizer
concentration on crop yield. |
| Lawyer's
Salaries |
Does a law firm discriminate by race? |
| Predicting college GPA |
Is SAT score (measured in high
school) a useful predictor of college GPA? |
| AIDS in
Females |
Have there been changes in
patterns of transmission of AIDS in females? |
Data Set
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Description
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| Nothing available yet. |
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Data Set
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Description
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| Weights
of Portuguese Water Dogs |
A
simulation study intended to demonstrate how
statistical inference might work. |
| p Day |
A
very silly little quiz and a trivial application
of a probability distribution for a discrete
random variable. |
| Sampling
Rectangles |
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| Leadfooted
Canadians |
Are
Canadians unfairly targeted for speeding
violations? |
Data Set
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Description
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| Children
of Chernobyl |
Has
the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl had an effect
on the development of children? A confidence
interval is developed to help investigate the
point. |
| Prozac for
Anorexia |
Does
Prozac reduce the frequency of relapses in women
recovering from anorexia nervoa? |
| Burn Time of
Ohio Blue Tip Kitchen Matches |
How
long do they burn? As we'll see, there's quite a
bit a variability. In addition, the distribution
is nonnormal. We'll obtain a confidence interval
for the mean burn time of all such matches. |
| Is the
average fill of the soda bottles too little? |
A
soft drink distributor believes the machine that
fills bottles is out of calibration. Are the
bottles, on average, underfilled? A significance
test is used to answer the question. |
| Determining Statistical Ties |
How and when are poll results
comparing two or more candidates determined to be
a statistical tie? A significance test
is used determine this. |
| Are Marital Status and Job Grade
Associated? |
Using the Chi-square test to
determine whether or not the association between
these two categorical variables is statistically
significant. |
Other topics
not even under construction.
(Blueprints are
being drawn up right now!)
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