Thursday, 18 February 2010

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Test 2 has been moved to Tuesday, 1 March.

Today, we discussed the design of statistical experiments (Section 1.5) and how to improve the design by minimizing bias (random assignment of individuals into the various groups) and by minimizing the effects of lurking variables.

On Tuesday, we will discuss graphing qualitative data (Section 2.1) and scatterplots and least squares regression (Chapter 4).

At this point, you should be able to start working on the following assignments:

Section 1.2 #1-15 odd

Section 1.3 #1-21 odd

Section 1.5 #5, 7, 8, 21

Section 3.4 #1, 3, 5, 15-21 odd

On 1 March, you will submit the following assignment:

Section 1.5 #5, 7, 8, 21

Section 3.4 #7, 9, 11, 17, 19, 21

Chapter 4 and Section 2.1 (to be announced on Tuesday)

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