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Text problems and notes
- Bayes's Rule
- Exercises on Bayes' Rule and Binomial calculations
- Supplementary material from Philip Wichura:
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Answers to Chapter 13 Review questions
- Answers to Chapter 14 Review questions
- Answers to Chapter 15 Review questions
- Ronald Fisher on Smoking See Chapter 15, Review Question 11.
- Paul D. Stolley, "When Genius Errs: R.A. Fisher and the Lung Cancer Controversy", American Journal of Epidemiology, (March, 1991) v. 133, no. 5, pp. 416-425. No direct link; go to Pittcat and search for the Journal.
- Mark Parascandola, "Two Approaches to Etiology: The Debate over Smoking and Lung Cancer in the 1950s", Endeavour, 28:2, June 2004. Google for a quick link (if you are on a Pitt computer).
- Law of averages, EV and SE review questions:
- Illustrations
- Pittcat keyword search . A keyword search for two terms can help you understand the basics of probability -- the exact meaning of between AND, OR, IF and NOT. Search for "econometrics" AND "regression" then "econometrics" OR "regression" ; or try "heteroscedasticity" and "autocorrelation"
Clicking on the picture of a Venn diagram above also helps with the basics. - Hot Hands or Hot Heads? summary of a paper by John Huizinga, Yao Ming's agent (and economics prof), on the "hot hand" in basketball.
- Athletes' Winning Streaks May Not Be All in Our -- Or Their -- Heads from Science Daily Oct. 5, 2011. Some evidence in favor of "hot hands"
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- Statistics Demos
- Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics from University of Alabama, Huntsville.
- Links to Java applets from the Duke University Statistics Department.
- Roulette Wheel by David Little, Math Department, Penn State.
- Galton's Quincunx from John Carroll University.
- Galton's Quincunx by David Little, Math Department, Penn State.
- Plinko
Sample exam for Unit III --- Answers
Extras:
- Mean and Variance of a Box Model
A proof of the "shortcut formula" for finding the mean and variance of the box model, and of its application to finding the Expected Value and Standard Error of a sum of random values. - Binomial Distribution from Wikipedia.
- Binomial Distribution from Wolfram MathWorld
- Combinations from Wikipedia.
- De Moivre-Laplace Theorem from Wikipedia.
- Pittcat keyword search . A keyword search for two terms can help you understand the basics of probability -- the exact meaning of between AND, OR, IF and NOT. Search for "econometrics" AND "regression" then "econometrics" OR "regression" ; or try "heteroscedasticity" and "autocorrelation"