Chapter 2 ISCAM Ch. 1 Intro
ANALYZING ONE CATEGORICAL VARIABLE.
In this chapter, you will begin to analyze results from statistical studies and focus on the process of statistical inference. In particular, you will learn how to assess evidence against a particular claim about a random process.
Section 1: Analyzing a process probability
Investigation 1.1: Friend or foe – Inference for a proportion
Investigation 1.2: Can wolves understand human cues? – Binomial random variables
Investigation 1.3: Are you clairvoyant? – Standardizing
Investigation 1.4: Heart transplant mortality – Factors impacting p-values
Investigation 1.5: Butter side down again? – Two-sided p-values
Investigation 1.6: Kissing the right way – Interval of plausible values
Section 2: Normal approximations for sample proportions
Investigation 1.7: Reese’s Pieces – Sampling distribution of sample proportions (Optional)
Investigation 1.8: Halloween treat choices – One sample z-test, continuity correction
Investigation 1.9: Kissing the right way (cont.) – One sample z-interval
Investigation 1.10: Heart transplant mortality (cont.) – Confidence level, Plus Four/Adjusted Wald
Investigation 1.11: Ganzfeld experiments – Power calculations
Section 3: Sampling from a finite population
Investigation 1.12: Sampling words – Biased and random sampling
Investigation 1.13: Sampling words (cont.) – Finite population correction
Investigation 1.14: Teen hearing loss – One sample z-procedures
Investigation 1.15: Counting concussions – Nonsampling errors, hypergeometric distribution
Investigation 1.16: Literary Digest – Issues in sampling
Investigation 1.17: Cat households – Practical significance
Investigation 1.18: Women senators – Cautions in inference
