Lab Outline for Summer 2015

Lab Topics (subject to change)

1. Week1: May 13
   • Introduction
     • Logging onto the System
     • Using JMPin in the labs and elsewhere
     • Data Entry and Editing
   • Data Description and Exploration:
     • Levels of Measurement
     • Data Types
     • Plotting Distributions
       • Histograms
       • Quantile Box Plots
       • Outlier Box Plots
       • Other Graphic Techniques
     • Descriptive Statistics
       • Measures of Central Tendency
       • Measures of Dispersion
2. Week 2: May 20
   • Hypothesis Testing
     • Hypothesis Formation
     • Significance
     • Errors
     • Other approaches to Statistics
   • Goodness of Fit Tests
     • Chi Squared Tests (Pearson's)
     • G Tests and Likelihood
     • Kolmogorov - Smirnov
     • Shapiro - Wilks
   • Contingency Testing
     • Chi Squared
     • G
     • Fisher's Exact Test
   • Probability Distributions
     • JMPin's Calculator
     • Random Number Functions
     • The Binomial Distribution
     • The Poisson Distribution
     • Other Distributions
3. Week 3: May 27
   Sampling and Sampling Distributions
   • The Normal Distribution
     • Characteristics
     • Parameters and statistics
     • Other Distributions
   • Sampling from a Normal
     • Populations
     • Standard Error
     • Precision and Bias
     • Confidence Intervals
     • The Central Limit Theorem
   • One Sample Inference
     • One Sample t Tests
     • Confidence Intervals
     • Assessing Normality
4. Week 4: June 3
   • Paired Sample Inference
     • Paired t Tests
     • Sign Test
     • Wilcoxon Test
     • Design Questions and Power
   • Two Sample Inference
     • F test
     • 2 sample t Tests
     • Welch's Approximate T test
     • Mann Whitney U test
5. Week 5: June 10
   • Multisample Inference
     • ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA): One-Factor
     • Kruskal-Wallis test
     • Multiple Comparisons
     • a posteriori and a priori approaches
     • Two-Factor, Multi-Factor and Nested ANOVA
     • Design Questions
   • Bonneferroni adjustments
   • Data Transformations
   • Linear Regression
     • Testing Assumptions
     • Testing Significance
     • Prediction
     • Limitations
     • Transformations
   • Correlation
     • Assumptions
     • Parametric Correlation
     • Spearman's and Kendall's Correlation
   • Lab exam signup
6. Week 6: June 17
   • Lab Exams

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