Discussion of the Expected Value of a Lottery Ticket
why the difference between mean and median matters
other issues when dealing with probability
Sampling from a sheet
convenience sampling
"random" sampling
random number table
randomness from the internet
sampling samples of samples (using r)
code will go here
return of the quincunx. what is the TRUE mean of the balls that are shaking out?
concept of standard deviation
concept of mean
what is a p-score, and what does it do for us
the 'assumption' of alpha = .05
how do we find this?
z-score
to p-score
talk about t-score
calculators do most of this work for us, and we are going to leave them to do it for us until we do not have to anymore. remember the key here: we want to be able to assess the work of others. to understand what they do when and why.