Worksheet 1: Welcome to Statistics!

Worksheet 1: Welcome to Statistics!#

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  1. Salk vaccine trial. a) What are some challenges in designing a trial for the polio vaccine? b) How would you go about designing a trial?

  2. A/B Testing. Have you yourself experienced A/B testing?

  3. Prosecutor’s fallacy. What is wrong with the defense’s argument?

  4. Spurious correlations. What is the difference between forming a hypothesis first, then collecting data, vs. the other way around?

  5. What are you excited for this quarter? What do you hope to learn?