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✍️ Free Response Questions (FRQs)
👆 Unit 1 - Exploring One-Variable Data
✌️ Unit 2 - Exploring Two-Variable Data
🔎 Unit 3 - Collecting Data
🎲 Unit 4 - Probability, Random Variables, and Probability Distributions
📊 Unit 5 - Sampling Distributions
⚖️ Unit 6 - Inference for Categorical Data: Proportions
😼 Unit 7 - Inference for Qualitative Data: Means
✳️ Unit 8 Inference for Categorical Data: Chi-Square
📈 Unit 9 - Inference for Quantitative Data: Slopes
🧐 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
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Best Quizlet Decks for AP Statistics
- Unit 1 Key Terms (15-23%): Exploring One-Variable Data
- Unit 2 Key Terms (5-7%): Exploring Two-Variable Data
- Unit 3 Key Terms (12-15%): Collecting Data
- Unit 4 Key Terms (10-20%): Probability, Random Variables, and Probability Distributions
- Unit 5 Key Terms (7-12%): Sampling Distributions
- Unit 6 Key Terms (12-15%): Inference for Categorical Data: Proportions
- Unit 7 Key Terms (10-18%): Inference for Quantitative Data: Means
- Unit 8 Key Terms (2-5%): Inference for Categorical Data: Chi-Squared
- Unit 9 Key Terms (2-5%): Inference for Quantitative Data: Slopes
- Closing Thoughts
3.7 Inference and Experiments
#statisticalinference
#experimentation
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kanya shah
June 3, 2020
🤔Drawing conclusions from the data and analyzing possible areas of error helps create a valid inference about the population from which the sample was chosen.
Inferences for Studies/Samples
📊Sampling variability refers to the fact that different random samples of the same size from the same population produce different estimates. *Larger samples tend to produce more accurate estimates that are closer to the true population value than smaller random samples. Key idea: larger sample estimates are more accurate. Making inferences from bad sampling methods such as voluntary response and convenience samples results in misleading conclusions because the data from the sample is not representative of the population.
Inferences for Experiments
You can conclude that changes in the explanatory variable cause changes in the response variable if the results of an experiment are statistically significant. That occurs when the observed results of a study/experiment are too unusual to be explained by chance alone, so the results are called statistically significant. We will learn more about how to determine if differences are enough to be considered statistically significant in Unit 6 and Unit 7.
If the experimental units were chosen from a large population, then the results can be generalized to that population or larger group. Random selection of units ensures that the data will be representative of the designated population 👨👩👧👦.
*Inference about a population can be made only if the individuals from a population taking part in the study were randomly selected.
*A well designed experiment that randomly assigns experimental units to treatments allows inferences about cause and effect.
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