Chapter 3 Information Sheet
| Day Number | Topics Discussed | Relevant Readings, handouts,articles, and activities |
Homework Due Next Time |
| 1 | 3.1: measuring associations with scatterplots |
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7, 10, 12, 17, 62 |
| 2 | 3.2: Correlation |
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25, 31, 32, 30, turn in: 66
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| 3 | 3.3: least-squares regression |
|
35, 40, 41, 51, 52 |
| 4 | 3.3: least squares regression | Read pp 144-159
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43, 45, 53, 60, |
| 5 | 3.3 least-squares regression | *** A Short Quiz on 4-2 reading tomorrow! *** in class: 3.49 |
Read Section 4.2: pp 225-237 Chapter 3: 46, 56, 59, 61 turn in: 68 |
| 6 | 4.2 Interpreting correlation and regression | Chapter 4 : 27, 46, 43-47 all (no turn ins) | |
| 7 | review day | solution-handout problem | Chapter
3: 67-75 all |
| 8 | TEST | Activ Stats: 7-3, Reexpressing Data |
*Boldface problems are TURN INs. They will be graded for correctness and clarity, on a 5 point scale.
| Labs / Activities | Data Sets | Applets / Internet Resources |
| The Butterfly Ballot | Florida Election Data | Knowing how to make a scatterplot can save lives: The Challenger Disaster. |
| Studying Associations with SAT Data | SAT Data | Correlation Applet: |
| Jet Skis | Guess the correlation! | |
| Metabolic Data | Fit a Line to data, understand what "least squares" means | |
| Influential Observations and the regression slope | ||
| Interactive regression residual applet | ||