PSU 016, Section 550: Statistics First-Year Seminar

Fall 2006

Weekly Assignments

  1. Essay about yourself (due on Sept. 13)
  2. Library open house (due on Sept. 27. Note: Two weeks until due date)
  3. Fantasy resume (due on Sept. 27)
  4. News/journal article about a statistical study (due on Oct. 4)
  5. Installing R (due by Oct. 11)
  6. Penn State PULSE surveys (due on Oct. 18)
  7. Simulate rolling two dice (due by Oct. 25)
  8. Simulate from a distribution you choose (due on Nov. 1)
  9. Explain two statistically significant results (due on Nov. 8)
  10. Normal distribution calculations (due on Nov. 15)
  11. A simple hypothesis test on a coin (due on Nov. 29)
  12. Confidence interval for a proportion (due on Dec. 6)
  13. Mendel's peas and the chi-square goodness-of-fit test (due on Dec. 13)