STAT 105: Real Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery)

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...