Session 1: The Languages of Statistics

• Estimation
  • Notes on estimation
  • Lecture slides on estimation (pdf file)
  • Confidence intervals (demonstration spreadsheet)
  • Degrees of freedom (demonstration spreadsheet)
  • Exercises on estimation with answers (spreadsheet)
  • Applications
    • A research and development race (simulated)
    • Presidential polls
• Sampling
  • Notes on sampling (including exercises)
  • A Primer on Polls
  • [A few sampling examples (spreadsheet)]
  • [Dealing with nonresponse bias (spreadsheet)]
• Hypothesis Testing
  • Notes on hypothesis testing
  • An hypothesis-testing tool
  • An hypothesis-testing paradigm, showing the details behind the "tool"
  • Exercises on hypothesis testing with answers (spreadsheet)