Statistics

This in-class activity is part of a public health course that incorporates assessment questions throughout the lecture as an activity-based learning technique. Activity: Intro to Data Science Lecture Goal/s: To allow both the student and the teaching...

This particular single-class activity got students acquainted with confidence intervals using a simple iPad and the attached handout. Activity: Complex Stats, Simple Tech Goal/s: The goal of the activity was to get the students comfortable with...

This activity uses a bag of differently-sized candies to get at the concept of bias in sampling. This activity comes to us from Andrew Gelman. The original activity text is below, and a link to the activity is here. ---------------------------------------...

Students used an ipython notebook to teach students about Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines, and Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering. This project was created by Giridhar Gopalan for his CS109 class to teach students about Neural Networks...

For the STAT104 first class of the semester, Lecturer Michael Parzen throws an inflatable globe of the world into the class audience to get the class excited about learning future topics of experimentation, randomness, and estimation. Parzen begins every...

EMR16: Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery) is taught around real-life modules, and all major assignments apply statistical topics directly to the real-life topics. The modules are Romance, Finance, Medical, Elections, and Wine &...

In EMR16, students design their own wine or chocolate-tasting experiment in order to use the principles of experimental design and data analysis. Students are actually given money to purchase chocolate or wine (depending on their age). They then have to...

In past offerings of EM-16: Real-Life Statistics, students virtually invested in the stock market in order to apply statistics concepts. After learning concepts like expected value, variance, and regression toward the mean, students formed teams and...

In EMR16, for the midterm and the final project, students have the choose of creating a 2 minute video that explains three statistical concepts to a novice. Students have the option to either create a video or do a 10 minute oral presentation extending or...

In EMR16 and Stat139, students periodically do very brief "mini-assignments" which require them to submit or consider something that the instructor incorporates into lecture. For example, one mini-assignment involves finding a plot of data on the internet...