I will ask you to complete five mini-projects during the course, but you may drop your lowest score. These will typically involve your finding and writing a report about applications of statistics that you find in popular media or on the web. These assignments will ask you to demonstrate your abilities to recognize the relevance of statistics to contemporary society, critique media presentations of statistical studies, and perform analyses of data. Detailed instructions and expectations appear can be found from the links below.
Mini-project 1: Sample survey (due Tuesday, April 11)
Mini-project 2: Study comparsion (due Tuesday, April 18)
Mini-project 3: Analyzing numerical data (due Monday, May 8)
Mini-project 4: Bivariate data analysis (due Thursday, May 25)
Mini-project 5: Chi-square data analysis (due
Thursday, June 8)