Lab Outline for January 2001
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See the course information page for information about lab times, lab instructor, teaching assistants, and lab location.
Week 1: January 8 - 12
- Introduction
- Using The Program In Class
- Data Entry and Editing
- Problems
- Exploring and describing data
- Histograms
- Boxplots
- Descriptive Statistics
- Accessing Files from the Server
- Using the Program
- Problems
- Download data file to your home computer (poverty.jmp)
Week 2: January 15 - 19
- Analysing frequency tables (Answers)
- One-way Frequency Table
- Two-way (Contingency) Table
- Hypothesis Testing
- Test Statistics for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tests
- Using the program
- Problems
- Download data file to your home computer (student_data.jmp)
Week 3: January 22 - 26
- Discrete Probability Distributions (Answers)
- The Binomial Distribution
- The Poisson Distribution
- Using the Random Number Generator
- Using the Calculator
- Problems
Week 4: January 29 - February 2
- Introduction to the Normal Distribution (Answers)
- The Normal Curve
- Using the Standard Normal Random Number Generator
- Obtaining Probabilities Under the Normal Curve
- Evaluating Fit to the Normal Distribution
- Problems
- Download data file to your home computer (fruitflies.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (cntrlmt.jmp)
Week 5: February 5 - February 9
- One-sample Inference (Answers)
- Confidence Interval for the Mean
- Hypothesis Testing for the Mean
- Using the Program
- Problems
- Download data file to your home computer (metacompetition.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (hagfish.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (iguana.jmp)
Week 6: February 12 - February 16
- Paired-sample Inference (Answers)
- Two-sample vs. Paired-sample Designs
- Confidence Interval for a Mean Difference
- Hypothesis Testing for a Difference
- Using the Program
- Problems
- Download data file to your home computer (toads.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (spider.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (conflict & speciation.jmp)
Week 7: February 19 - February 23
Midterm Break
Week 8: February 26 - March 2
- Two-sample Inference (Answers)
- Distribution of Differences Between Sample Means
- Comparing Two Population Variances
- Non-parametric Alternative to the Two-sample t Test
- Power Analysis
- Using the Program
- Problems
- Download data file to your home computer (song.sparrows.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (hippocampus.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (water.the.plants.jmp)
Week 9: March 5 - March 9
- Single Factor ANOVA (Answers)
- The Variance Among Multiple Sample Means
- Fixed and Random Effects ANOVA
- Multiple Comparisons
- Transformations
- Nonparametric Alternative to ANOVA
- Using the Program
- Problems
- Download data file to your home computer (fruitflies.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (mimicry.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (genotype.jmp)
Week 10: March 12 - March 16
- Linear Regression and Correlation (Answers)
- Simple Linear Regression
- Assumptions of Linear Regression
- Transformations in Regression
- Other Topics in Linear Regression
- Simple Linear Correlation
- Using the Program
- Problems
- Download data file to your home computer (mammals.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (mutation.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (gagurine.jmp)
- Download data file to your home computer (kpmales.jmp)
Week 11: March 19 - March 23
Lab Exam Signup
- Brief Review (Answers)
- Hints for the lab exam
- Problems
- Selecting a statistical method
- Download data file to your home computer (clutch.jmp)
Week 12: March 26 - Thursday March 29
- Lab Available for Study and Makeup of Missed Material
Week 13: Friday, March 30 - Thursday, April 5
- Lab Exam