Exploring  Communities Through Data Analysis Labs

Part One:  OVERVIEW      A Student as a Member of Communities     Statistics and Data Analysis Sample Course Content     Communication of Statistics           Vocabulary           Concept Map of Statistics           Ethical Guidelines for Data Collection           Finding Data on the Internet           Writing Statistical Results

Part Two:  A STUDENT IN A CLASSROOM SETTING     Exploratory Data Analysis            Data Collection Creating a Composite Classmate            Graphical Methods Comparing Hours Spent at School and Work            Numerical Methods Comparing Pastime Activities            Prediction of Salaries Based on Years of Education

Part Three:  A STUDENT AS A UNITED STATES CITIZEN      Probability and Statistical Distributions            Randomness of Ages of U.S. Residents            Sampling Counties for Air Quality            Algebra and Calculus of Normal Distributions            Normal Probabilities for Personal Income             Binomial Distributions for Exit Polling             Sampling Distribution of a Mean for Personal Income     Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Intervals        Five Steps of Hypothesis Testing            One-sample Mean t-test for Radon Effect on Cancer            One-sample Proportion t-test for Poverty Levels            Two-sample t-tests of Mean for Investigating Minority Enrollment            Testing a Relationship between Pornography and Rape

Part Four:  A STUDENT AS A MEMBER OF OUR WORLD SOCIETY            One-way ANOVA Exploring World Fertility Rates     Modeling Data with Least Squares            Linear Regression Predicting Threatened Species

Part Five:  A STUDENT AS A MEMBER OF A SCHOOL COMMUNITY      Survey Research            Data Collection of a Survey on School Community            Analyzing School Categorical Variables

Margaret G. Jamison
Department of Statistics
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599