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Statistics Play-by-Play: Laboratory Experiments for Elementary Statistics features twelve comprehensive laboratory experiments for the increasingly popular laboratory-based introductory statistics course.
Statistics Play-by-Play includes classroom tested and proven experiments ranging from sampling a population to using regression for prediction to inference for a population proportion.
Available in print and eBook formats, Statistics Play-by-Play: Laboratory Experiments for Elementary Statistics:
- Includes introductions, questions for thought, materials, methods, results, and references for all laboratory exercises.
- Integrates Reality Check vignettes that reinforce important concepts and help apply concepts to real life for today’s students.
- Features perforated results and discussion questions sheets to notate the results of laboratory exercises and encourages students to apply the results to real-world scenarios.
Are You Smarter Than a Random Number Generator?
Lab 1: Sampling a Population
Got Data?
Lab 2: Exploring Data with Graphical Displays and Numerical Summaries
A Foodie's Dilemma
Lab 3: Variability Due to the Measuring Instrument
You Seem So Distant
Lab 4: Using Regression for Prediction
Will I Stay or Will I Go?
Lab 5: An Application of Probability Distributions
Just Bead It
Lab 6: A Binomial Experiment
Some "Mean" Distributions
Lab 7: The Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean
Purely a Matter of Taste
Lab 8: Inference for a Population Proportion
Exercise ... a Tribute to the Heart
Lab 9: Inference for a Population Mean
Are You Giving Me the Silent Treatment?
Lab 10: Comparing Two Population Means with Dependent Samples
So Strong and Yet so Soft
Lab 11: Comparing Two Population Means with Independent Samples
Is That Fair Play?
Lab 12: Randomization Test to Compare Population Proportions