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Class #5

Experiments and Observational Studies

Here is a link to the New England Journal of Medicine article on Cell Phones. Here is discussion from the PBS NewsHour.

Association and Causation

Play the Correlation Guessing Game!

Here are the data from the New York Times article on golf scores, as a tab delimited text file.

Homework

  1. Read Chapter 14 in the Moore text.

  2. Read the New York Times article "Duffers Need Not Apply."

  3. Read Arnold Barnett's OR/MS Today article on crime statistics.