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