Statistics

Watch the following videos and take some notes. We will do the problems in class... Not homework.

Take Notes in your notebook on all the lessons as well as answering the questions I've put in between... many things are "said" and not written, so I will be looking for notes added in your own words, not only copying the screen in the video.

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In the video, he mentions "inferential statistics"... what does that mean? Make up your own definition after looking up the word "infer" (since that's the base of inferential).

Briefly explain: What is the difference between difference between Descriptive and Inferential Statistics?

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In the example he's giving at the bottom... what is the population being discussed? Why was choosing the row of girls not ok?

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What is "mutually exclusive"? What is "homogeneous"?

Explain, in your own words, the difference between Simple Random Sampling and Stratified Random Sampling. Use the example of a group of animals seen out on a safari. In this wildlife park, there are 100 elephants, 250 zebras, 13 ostrich, and 25 lions.

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Flight Info: We need to survey a random sample of the 300 passengers on a flight form San Francisco to Tokyo. Name each sampling method described below AND state how you know it is this type of sampling. 1. Pick every 10th passenger as people board the plane. 2. From the boarding list, randomly choose 5 people flying first class and 25 of the other passengers. 3. Randomly generate 30 seat numbers and survey the passengers who sit there. 4. Randomly select a seat position (right window, right center, right aisle, etc.) and survey all the passengers sitting in those seats.

Making Claims: Why is each of the following claims not correct? 1. It is always better to take a census than to draw a sample. 2. Stopping students on their way out of the cafeteria is a good way to sample if we want to know about the quality of the food there. 3. A poll taken on a statistics support website garnered 12.357 responses. The majority said they enjoy doing statistics homework. With a sample size that large, we can be pretty sure that most statistics students feel this way too.

Chicken Noodle Soup: Chicken noodle soup can demonstrate what it means to be a good "representative sample". From your first spoonful of soup, you make a judgement on whether you like the soup or not. 1. Describe a spoonful of soup that you might take that would NOT be a good representation of the soup (and therefore NOT a "representative sample"). 2. Describe the spoonful that you would take that WOULD BE a good "representative sample".

Cafeteria: The Food Service staff need to find out some information on how students feel about the importance of the salad bar at school. Is it important that students have eaten at the salad bar to participate in this survey? Thinking of a high school cafeteria in the movies, where everyone eats at the same time (like in Mean Girls or The High school Musical), describe how would you conduct a survey using each of the following types of sampling. 1. Simple Random Sampling 2. Stratified Random Sampling 3. Cluster Sampling 4. Systematic Random Sampling 5. The Food Service staff believe that men and women typically have different opinions about the importance of the salad bar. Which sampling strategy would be best to allow for this difference between men and women?

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School Uniforms: 1. What is wrong with the way the student initially chose to do his survey? Give at least three reasons why this was not a successful collection of data to help him argue his point to the School Governing Board. 2. Why did they need to use a stratified sampling in this situation? 3. When choosing the individual people to participate in the survey, he gave two methods (first was drawing numbers form a bag). What type of sampling would the second method be considered? Explain.

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media type="custom" key="28561083" Freshmen and Food: You are trying to find out what freshmen think of the food served on campus and have thought of a couple of sampling methods... How do you feel about these options? Explain what is wrong with these ideas and what kind of sampling is being used. 1. First set up a "Tell Us What You Think" website and invite freshmen to visit the site to complete a questionnaire there. 2. Just stand outside the school cafeteria at lunchtime and stop people to ask them the questions on your survey.

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Dots, Dots, and more Dots: Once you're on this site, if you can, enlarge the screen so you have a good view of the circle activity. Click "Start" Interactive Activity and follow the directions on the first tab. Interactive Activity What do you notice about your result (the average diameter of the circles) vs. the results you see from the other two tabs? Why do you think this is the case? What is this an example of? What type of sampling did you use here?

Take the quiz on the following site: Multiple Choice Quiz on Sampling Randomly and Non-Randomly Record your score after you submit your answers AND record the numbers of all the questions you answered incorrectly!!