Graphical DescriptiveStatistics I

Immaculata InstituteJuly 29 – August 2, 2013

Dr. Brian BuerkePhysics Department

Albright College

The graphical statistics classes will focus on two of the Common Core standards

S-ID-1 Represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots, histograms, and box plots).

S-ID-5 Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Interpret relative frequencies in the context of the data. Recognize possible associations and trends in the data.

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The graphical statistics classes will focus on two of the Common Core standards

S-ID-1 Represent data with plots on the real number line (dot plots, histograms, and box plots).

S-ID-5 Summarize categorical data for two categories in two-way frequency tables. Interpret relative frequencies in the context of the data. Recognize possible associations and trends in the data.

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The high school standards connect well with those for elementary and middle school

Grades 3 – 5 Measurement and Data

Make and interpret scaled bar graphs, line plots, and 2-column tables

Grades 6 – 8 Statistics and Probability

Understand variability and data characteristics, use wide variety of plots, draw inferences,

make models, and use 2-way frequency tables

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The classes will emphasize two themes

Modeling

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The classes will emphasize two themes

Modeling

Baseball

--in honor of SABR 43, PhiladelphiaJuly 31 – August 4, 2013

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xnk9fI2n_HY

Reading, PA is Baseballtown

The “F” Test: You have 2 minutes to identify all the f’s in this passage

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The “F” Test: You have 2 minutes to identify all the f’s in this passage

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“The necessity of training farm hands for first-class farms in the fatherly handling of farm livestock is foremost in the minds of effective farm owners. Since the forefathers of the farm owners trained the farm hands for first-class farms in the fatherly handling of farm livestock, the farm owners feel they should carry on with the former family tradition of training farmhands of first-class farms in the effective fatherly handling of farm livestock, however futile, because of their belief that it forms the basis of effective farm management efforts.”

http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v12n2/melton.html

The “F” Test: You have 2 minutes to identify all the f’s in this passage

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References

The “F” and “Most” tests are adapted from Kim I. Melton, Journal of Statistics Education Volume 12, Number 2 (2004).http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v12n2/melton.html

A short but formal overview of descriptive statistics is available in S.S. Sonnad, “Describing Data: Statistical and Graphical Methods,” Radiology Volume 225, Number 3 (2002).http://radiology.rsna.org/content/225/3/622.full.pdf

Tutorials on descriptive statistics are available at Stat Trek.http://www.stattrek.com/tutorials/statistics-tutorial.aspx

Fully searchable baseball statistics are available at the Major League Baseball website.http://mlb.mlb.com/

The press release ““Republican-Led States Only States to Lose Jobs” is from June 14, 2013 on the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) website. It includes a link to the original Pew Charitable Trust study.http://democraticgovernors.org/republican-led-states-only-states-to-lose-jobs/