Welcome to Chance, Winter Term 2001
Professor:
Bill Peterson
,
Dept. of Mathematics
,
Middlebury College
Required Text
Statistics: Concepts and Controversies
, Fifth Edition
by David S. Moore
(available at the Middlebury College Store)
Click
to visit the book's website!
Plus your favorite newspaper!
Middlebury College Library's
Article Indexes
.
Nexis-Lexis
article search engine (requires Middlebury authorization).
Newslink National Newspapers
.
Chance News
electronic newsletter from the
Chance Web Site
at Dartmouth.
CHANCE Magazine
Write-ups of contemporary Chance issues by professional statisticians. (Starr Library subscribes.)
Schedule
January 8
: Course Introduction / Polls and Samples
January 9
: Sampling and Nonsampling Errors
January 11
: Shapes of Distributions
January 12
: DataDesk Demonstration (Voter Windows Lab)
January 15
: Experiments & Observational Studies
January 16
: Data Graphics in the Press
January 18
: The Death Penalty Debate
January 19
: Cents & the Central Limit Theorem
January 22
: The Law of Large Numbers
January 23
: Significance Tests--Coke vs. Pepsi
January 25
: Waiting Time Distributions--the Game of Pig
January 26
: The Rating Game--US News College Ranks
January 28
: The Monty Hall Problem
January 30
: Election 2000--The Florida Vote
February 1/2:
Group Presentations
Chance Fair
Posters from Fall 1998
