Submitting your Lab Report

You are to submit your answers to the questions, including pasting in your graphs and applet output. Make sure you:

  • Review your answers, both to proofread and to assess your understanding.
  • Make sure the screen captures are integrated into the body of your Word file (ask for help on formatting these images).
  • Make sure you have explained your reasoning behind your conclusion in part (m).

By putting both names on this report, you are acknowledging that you both contributed substantially to this report.

Summary of technology skills learned in this lab:

  • Using technology to produce (and title) a simple bar graph for a binary (two outcome) variable
  • Using a computer simulation (One Proportion Inference applet) to generate an approximate p-value for a research study involving a binary variable

Summary of statistical skills learned in this lab:

  • Describing and interpreting a sample result of one binary variable
  • Using a p-value to assess the strength of evidence against the null hypothesis (beyond the data at hand)
  • Explaining the reasoning process behind the conclusion of statistical significance

 

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