Chance
QR Worksheets on Chance
Random Homework
--homework
Random Fakeout
--computer lab
Chance Worksheet 1
--homework
Chance Worksheet 2
--classwork
Chance Worksheet 3
--classwork
How Many Fives?
--homework
David Moore reading
--homework
Deborah Bennett reading
--classwork
Statistics in Context
--classwork
Yahtzee
--classwork
Applets
Simulate coin tosses
Simulate free throws
Simulate the Arizona/Snapple poll
See if the monkey types "Hamlet"
Compute with the magic button
Links
http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/
--if you're interested in the stock market, go here
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5284848
--NPR story about point shaving
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/
--go here! There is so much information that I'm sure some part of it will help you with something you're doing. The Chance News is especially interesting.
http://euclid.math.mcgill.ca/~chance/
You will find here a list of articles in
Chance
magazine. Smith College carries the magazine. There are also a lot of good links identified here.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chance99/homepage.html
--another link to Chance magazine. This one includes some articles on line, including quite a few about sports.
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~qr32/syllabus/
--syallabus for a course on chance taught at Harvard
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/gen/indepth/polls/faq.html
--about polls on cnn
http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/
National Opinion Research Center
http://www.barra.com/newsletter/nl165/SevIns5NL165.asp
--about coincidence
http://www.awc.cc.az.us/psy/dgershaw/lol/Coincidence.htm
--more about coincidence
http://www.linguafranca.com/print/0011/feature_fingerprints.html
Fingerprint evidence is thought to be foolproof... this article calls that into question.
http://zompist.com/chance.htm
"How likely are chance resemblances between languages?"
http://www.skypub.com/news/special/9812seti_aliens.html
--a discussion of the probability that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_1/m3225/10_59/54594174/p1/article.jhtml?term=False+positive+reactions+%2F+Public+opinion
--article about false positives on medical tests
http://www.fplc.edu/risk/vol2/winter/gleason.htm
--article on drug testing
http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/LetsMakeaDeal.html
--the famous Monte Hall problem
http://www.tallpages.com/axyzuk/statist.htm#usaci
--height statistics
http://www.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/subscriptions/simseries/mlb_simseries_index.jsp
--Simulation Series of Major League Baseball
http://www.gazettenet.com/01172003/health/3621.htm
--Small Pox Vaccinations
http://www.healtoronto.com/testing_meyer.html
--False positives in testing for HIV
http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm
--another article by Malcolm Gladwell, about Nassim Taleb and his application of randomness to understanding the stock market
http://www.saliu.com/Saliu2.htm
--gambling advice based on probability theory
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