Hundreds of engaging, class-tested statistics exercises (and detailed solutions) that test student understanding of the material. Many are educational in their own right—for example, baseball managers who played professional ball were often catchers; stocks that are deleted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average generally do better than the stocks that replaced them; athletes may not get hot hands but they often get warm hands with modest improvements in their success probabilities.
Hundreds of engaging, class-tested statistics exercises with solutions that test student understanding of the material. Many of which are educational in their own right—for example, stocks that are deleted from the Dow Jones Industrial Average generally do better than the stocks that replaced them.
Introduction
1. Mean, Median, Descriptive Statistics
2. Graphs Good,
Bad, and Ugly
3. Misleading Data
4. Probabilities
5. Bayes Rule
6. Monty
Hall Problems
7. Binomial Distribution
8. Law of Averages
9. Normal
Distribution
10. One-Sample Tests and CIs
11. Two-Sample Tests and CIs
12.
Chi-Square Tests
13. Simple Regression
14. Regression Toward the Mean
15.
Multiple Regression
16. Miscellaneous
17. Out-of-Class Projects
Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He has won two teaching awards and written (or co-authored) more than 100 academic papers and 20 books. His statistical and financial research has been featured in various media, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, NPR Tech Nation, NBC Bay Area, CNBC, WYNC, WBBR Bloomberg Radio, NBC Think, Silicon Valley Insider, Motley Fool, Scientific American, Forbes, MarketWatch, MoneyCentral.msn, NewsWeek, Fast Company, The Economist, MindMatters, OZY, Slate, and BusinessWeek.
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