MATH 399N (MATH399N)

Initial Post Instructions Medical professionals can find relationships between variables. The more you drink alcohol, the less functionality of your liver. The less carbohydrates a person intakes, the lower their Body Mass Index. Data can be collected and organized as an ordered pair (x, y). The data can be analyzed to determine the type and strength of a correlation and to calculate a regression line in order to make a prediction. Use the internet to find a data set of ordered pairs. Key ter...

Initial Post Instructions Topic: Poisson Probability Distribution The Poisson Distribution is a discrete probability distribution where the number of occurrences in one interval (time or area) is independent of the number of occurrences in other intervals. April Showers bring May Flowers!! Research the "Average Amount of Days of Precipitation in April" for a city of your choice. In your initial post, Introduce a. Introduce the City and State. Let us know a fun fact! b. Tell us the aver...

Initial Post Instructions Log onto website where you can observe your service bill for the last 12 months (electric bill, cell phone bill, water bill, etc.). If you do NOT feel comfortable sharing this data, you can make up values. 1. In excel, list the values of your bill for the last 12 months on one column. 2. Find the sample mean and sample standard deviation of your data. 3. Pick three bills from the last 12 months and change the values into z-scores. What does the z-score tell you abou...

Log onto website where you can observe your service bill for the last 12 months (electric bill, cell phone bill, water bill, etc.). If you do NOT feel comfortable sharing this data, you can make up values. 1. In excel, list the values of your bill for the last 12 months on one column. 2. Find the sample mean and sample standard deviation of your data. 3. Pick three bills from the last 12 months and change the values into z-scores. What does the z-score tell you about that particular month? A...

MATH 399N Week 6 Assignment; Course Project Part 1; Confidence Intervals - High School Graduation Rates by State

MATH 399N Week 7 Assignment; Course Project Part II; Hypothesis Testing

Initial Post Instructions When data is collected, the most common calculations computed are the Measures of Central Tendency, mean, median and mode. It is important to know how to compute these values and it is also extremely important to know what these values mean in context of the data set. Use the internet to find a data set. Key terms to search: Free Public Data Sets and Medical Data Sets. 1. Introduce your Data Set and Cite the Source. 2. Why was this data interesting to you? 3. Cal...

Initial Post Instructions Find an example of a confidence interval in the news, scholarly source or medical journal. Summarize the article/study. Does the article/study include the sample size and the level of confidence used to create the confidence interval? Explain what the confidence interval means in context of the news article or scholarly source. Follow-Up Post Instructions Respond to at least two peers or one peer and the instructor. Further the dialogue by providing more information ...

Initial Post Instructions Topic: Poisson Probability Distribution The Poisson Distribution is a discrete probability distribution where the number of occurrences in one interval (time or area) is independent of the number of occurrences in other intervals. April Showers bring May Flowers!! Research the "Average Amount of Days of Precipitation in April" for a city of your choice. In your initial post, Introduce a. Introduce the City and State. Let us know a fun fact! b. Tell us the aver...

Initial Post Instructions Keep your eyes and ears open as you read or listen to the news this week. Find/discover an example of statistics & probability in the news to discuss the following statement that represents one of the objectives of statistics analysis: "Statistics and Probability helps us make decisions based on data analysis." Briefly discuss how the news item or article meets this objective. Cite your references. Also, keep in mind and discuss how the impact of your study on your p...