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Home / Statistical Explorations with Biological Content: Introductory

Statistical Explorations with Biological Content: Introductory

  • Solutions (Email vanderstoepj@hope.edu for password)
  • Introduction to Chance Models
    • Exploration 1.1: Can dogs rapidly learn names of objects?
  • Measuring the Strength of evidence
    • Exploration 1.2: Can dogs smell COVID?
  • Alternative Measure of Strength of Evidence
    • Exploration 1.3: Can dogs understand human cues?
  • What Impacts the Strength of Evidence
    • Exploration 1.4: Can bees remember flower shapes?
  • Inference for a Single Proportion: Theory-Based Approach
    • Exploration 1.5: Eye dominance?
  • Sampling from a Finite Population: Proportions
    • Exploration 2.1: Sampling Trees
  • Quantitative Data
    • Exploration 2.2: Sampling Trees (continued)
  • Inference for a Population Mean
    • Exploration 2.3: Have human body temperatures been decreasing?
  • Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals
    • Exploration 3.1: Malaria in Yemen
  • 2SD and Theory-Based Confidence intervals for a Single Proportion
    • Exploration 3.2: Malaria in Yemen (continued)
  • 2SD and Theory-Based Confidence intervals for a Single Mean
    • Exploration 3.3: Body Temperatures
  • Factors that Affect the Width of a Confidence Interval
    • Exploration 3.4: Dominant Eye
  • Association and Confounding AND Comparing Two Groups: Categorical Response
    • Exploration 4.1 – 5.1: Does a poor sense of smell indicate an increased risk of pneumonia?
  • Observational Studies vs Experiments
    • Exploration 4.2: Will an extended release steroid induce ulcerative colitis remission?
  • Comparing Two Proportions: Simulation-Based Approach
    • Exploration 5.2: Robot touch and compliance
  • Comparing Two Proportions: Theory-Based Approach
    • Exploration 5.3: How does caloric restriction affect mortality in rhesus monkeys?
  • Comparing Two Groups: Quantitative Response
    • Exploration 6.1: Cancer pamphlets
  • Comparing Two Means: Simulation-Based Approach
    • Exploration 6.2: Do house cats have socio-spatial cognition?
    • Corresponding Japanese Translated Materials of Exploration 6.2 (ZIP file)
    • Exploration 6.2: Does presence of a dominant species affect native prairie plant diversity in a restored prairie?
  • Comparing Two Means: Theory-Based Approach
    • Exploration 6.3: Annual growth of primary-forest and pioneer trees in forest understory
  • Paired Data & Simulation-Based Approach for Analyzing Paired Data
    • Exploration 7.1 – 7.2: Does rinsing with pink artificially-flavored sweetener improve running speed?
    • Corresponding Japanese Translated Materials of Exploration 7.1-7.2 (ZIP file)
  • Theory-Based Approach for Analyzing Data from Paired Samples
    • Exploration 7.3: Effects of badminton on executive function
  • Comparing Multiple Proportions: Simulation and Theory-Based
    • Exploration 8.1-8.2: Steps per day and all-cause mortality
  • Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
    • Exploration 8.3: The Monday blues. Or are you more likely to have a heart attack on some days of the week than others?
  • Comparing Multiple Means: Simulation and Theory-Based
    • Exploration 9.1 – 9.2: Exercise and brain volume
  • Scatter Plots & Inference for the Correlation Coefficient: Simulation-Based Approach
    • Exploration 10.1 – 10.2: Tracking activity and physiological parameters
  • Least Squares Regression
    • Exploration 10.3: Predicting total body mass from skeletal mass in birds
  • Inference for Regression Slope: Simulation and Theory-Based
    • Exploration 10.4 – 10.5: How do invasive plants suppress the growth of native trees?

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