Chance Section 1
Instructors:
Professor James Baumgartner    Albin Jones




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Class 1

Preliminaries for Math 5(pdf)

Is using a car phone like driving drunk?(pdf)
First proof: driving while talking on phone is a hazard.(pdf)

Homework: survey(pdf)

Class 2

How Fen-Phen, A Diet 'Miracle,' Rose and Fell(pdf)
Recall of Drugs Leaves Many Dieters Hopeless(pdf)
Maker Had Issued Warnings on Diet Drug(pdf)
utri/System Is Dropping Fen-Phen Drug(pdf)
Diet Pills: Allure and Risk(pdf)
2 Popular Diet Pills Linked to Problems With Heart Valves(pdf)

Homework(pdf)

Class 3

Excerpt from "The truth about ESP"(pdf)

ESP Experiment(pdf)

Class 4

Poliomyelitis(pdf)

Survey Data

Homework(pdf)

Class 5

Ethics and Statistics(pdf)

Class 6

GALILEO: TO LAUNCH OR NOT TO LAUNCH?

Explaining The Risks of The Cassini Mission
Cassini Mission False and True

Homework(pdf)

Class 7

Survey(pdf)

Class 8

Some Probability(pdf)

Homework(pdf)

Class 9

The Monte Hall Problem(pdf)

What about polls?(pdf)

Class 10

Homework(pdf)

Class 11

Illegal Drugs(pdf)

Class 12

Census(pdf)

Homework(pdf)

Questions(pdf)

Class 14

Validity concerns and usefulness of student ratings of instruction(pdf)

Making Students' evaluations of teaching effectiveness
effective: The critical issues of validity, bias and utility
(pdf)

Grading leniency is a removable contaminant of student ratings(pdf)

Navigating student ratings of instruction(pdf)

Student ratings: the validity of their use(pdf)

GOP just wants to check whether anybody likes the IRS(pdf)

Homework(pdf)

Class 15

Class 16

Homework(pdf)