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Monday, January 13, 2020

Monday......

Tonight's HW = count your stamps and bring them in tomorrow!

  • Get all of your stamps (blue smiley faces) together. Use whatever works for you--a bag, folder, staple them all together, glue/tape all the stamps to one paper, or whatever other method you like...
  • Count all of your stamps and write your total on the front (with your name)
  • Double check your count
  • I will choose 5 random names from each period to double check; if your count is incorrect you will be given a 0
  • I don't know how many stamps you will need total, you just have to give me all of them! (next quarter it's a different stamp and a different color)

Make sure you "know what you need to know" about experimental design! I will accept any/all experimental design homework tomorrow for full credit! 

Experimental Design: What do I need to know for the midterm?
  • We will not have a test on experimental design/sampling before the midterm, but these topics will be included in the midterm, so be ready. 
    • We may (or may not) have a test on data collection after midterms, as we'll (quickly) finish this unit that week. We'll see/discuss.
  • Identify factor (explanatory variable), treatments, response variable, experimental units/subjects
  • Explain a process to randomly assign treatments (random # generator or #'s in a hat)
  • Determine if a given context represents is an experiment or observational study.
  • Can we determine cause and effect from a given study? (determine if it's an experiment or not; if it's an experiment we can establish cause + effect; if it's not an experiment, we can't)
  • Identify a potential confounding variable/explain why a variable might be a confounding variable
  • Choose a variable to block by and explain why
    • Create blocks based on this criteria
  • Explain how to randomly assign treatments in a blocked design
  • Explain if there is/is not a control group, how you know, and explain why it is/would be useful to have a control group
  • Determine if a study is single/double blinded OR explain how a study could be single/double blinded


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