PSU 016, Section 550: Statistics First-Year Seminar

Fall 2009

Weekly Assignments

  1. Install R and write an essay about yourself (due on Sept. 2)
  2. Create a weekly schedule to turn in (due on Sept. 9)
  3. Create a fantasy resume (due on Sept. 16)
  4. Read and report on an article in The American Statistician (due on Sept. 23)
  5. Learn and answer questions about academic integrity, plagiarism, and copyright (due on Sept. 30)
  6. Simulate rolling two dice (due on Oct. 7)
  7. Create an academic plan (due on Oct. 14)
  8. Make simple calculations with normal distributions (due on Oct. 21)
  9. Choose and summarize a PULSE survey (due on Oct. 28)
  10. Recreate a confidence interval for a proportion (due on Nov. 4)
  11. Describe a p-value in a research article (due on Nov. 11)
  12. Obtain p-values for Gregor Mendel's pea data (due on Nov. 18)