Long Answer Questions

QuestionTopics
Acid RainExperimental design; tesing a single mean; ci on a single mean
Acid Rain #2Experimental design; tesing a single mean; ci on a single mean
Admission RatesContingency tables; Simpson's paradox
Aids survival timesExperimental design; ci single means; ci difference; two-sample t-test
Aspirin and heart attacksExperimental design; segmented bar charts
Baby birthweightsDescriptive statistics
BioremediationConfidence intervals; one sample t-test
Blood levels of caffeine Experimental design; CRD-ANOVA
Car insuranceProbability; expected value; law of large numbers
Clear cutting Experiment design; side-by-side box plots
Coffee drinking and alertness Experimental design; two sample t-test; CRD-ANOVA;
Coffee drinking and alertness #2 Experimental design; paired t-test; RCB-ANOVA;
Cola filling Mu vs Xbar; s vs sigma vs se; def of median
Cola testingBinomial distribution; empirical rule
Color association and emotionContingency table; mosaic plot; segmented bar chart; Simpson's paradox
Corn growth Experimental design, CRD-ANOVA
Discrimination in hiringChi-square tests; Simpson's paradox
Discrimination in salarySimpson's paradox; problems of aggregation
Fish weights and acid rainEmpirical interval; ci for a single mean
Fish weights and acid rain #2Experimental design; ci for a single mean; ci for diff of means
Food packagingNormal distribution; sampling distribution; control charts
Food packaging #2Normal distribution; sampling distribution; ci for single mean; empirical interval
Gravel trucksci for a single mean; testing a single mean
Guinea Pigsci for a single mean
Light bulb testinghypothesis testing for a single mean
Mileage ratingsdescriptive statistics
Pig feeddescriptive statistics; experimental design
Political polls Proportions; surveys
Sleep and alertness Experimental design; paired t-test
Store DesignExperimental design
Venture capitalProbability; expected value
Vitamin C and the common coldExperimental design; binomial distribution

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