06.07.2015 Views

RES 341 Entire Course / RES 341 Complete Course

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

<strong>RES</strong> <strong>341</strong> Week 3 Individual Assignment Survey Paper Topic Self-efficasy and cigarrete<br />

smoking<br />

<strong>RES</strong> <strong>341</strong> Week 3 Individual Assignment Survey Paper Topic Wage Earners<br />

<strong>RES</strong> <strong>341</strong> Week 3 Statistical Symbols and Definitions Matching Assignment<br />

<strong>RES</strong> <strong>341</strong> Week 4 <strong>Complete</strong> DQs<br />

(1) Why is the population shape a concern when estimating a mean? What effect does sample<br />

size, n, have on the estimate of the mean? Is it possible to normalize the data when the<br />

population shape has a known skew? How would you demonstrate the Central Limit Theorem to<br />

your classmates?<br />

(2) What do confidence intervals represent? What is the most controllable method of increasing<br />

the precision (narrowing) of the confidence interval? What percentage of times will the mean<br />

(population proportion) not be found within the confidence interval?<br />

(3) A mayoral election race is tightly contested. In a random sample of 1,100 likely voters, 572<br />

said that they were planning to vote for the current mayor. Based on this sample, what is your<br />

initial hunch? Would you claim with 95% confidence that the mayor will win a majority of the<br />

votes? Explain.<br />

<strong>RES</strong> <strong>341</strong> Week 4 Individual Assignment Exercises From the E-Text 5.62 5.70<br />

<strong>RES</strong> <strong>341</strong> Week 4 Individual Assignment Article Review<br />

<strong>RES</strong> <strong>341</strong> Week 4 Exercise 4-2 Confidence Interval<br />

<strong>RES</strong> <strong>341</strong> Week 4 R5 Quiz<br />

<strong>RES</strong> <strong>341</strong> Week 5 <strong>Complete</strong> DQs

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!