Module 7 - Probability and Statistics

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Activity 1:  Key Terms and Concepts

As you progress through module 7, pay particular attention to the following terms and concepts.

Key Terms

• Measures of Central Tendency: mean, median, mode
• random
• control (control group)
• replication
• association
• causation
• correlations
• Law of Large Numbers
• Confidence Interval
• simple random sampling, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, multi-stage sampling
• standard deviation
• one-tailed test, two-tailed test
• null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis
• Type I error
• level of significance
• z-score
• critical value
• stem & leaf plots

• Pareto chart

• Histogram

• Scatterplot

• Type I & II Errors

Key Concepts/Skills

• Explain various statistical procedures and theories
• Interpret statistical data
• Identify common misconceptions in statistics
• Calculate probabilities
• Explain various sampling techniques
• Construct hypothesis tests
• Identify assumptions and evaluate validity of statistical analyses

Finding the Vocabulary in the e-text:
You should go into MML Part III, and on the left menu bar is a button E-text—Agresti text. Click this button, and then click into any of the chapters.  From there you can click into the Chapter Opener or any section on the list.  A new window will pop-up and then you should see a page number on the top of the page.  In order to search for terms go into the Index, by typing IND into the box with the page number.  A search box will pop up and you will be able to type in any key words you want to look up.

All students should go to the community and participate in the exercises of the week.

In your notebook, create a glossary section for quick reference. 

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