Introduction to Statistics


Project	Topic	Discipline	Introduction to Topic	Additional Examples and Exercises	Project Components
Simon What Influences Memory	t-tests ANOVA Design of Experiments	Psychology	Making ConnectionsConnecting the Models for the 2-Sample T-test, ANOVA, and Regression	Extending the Statistical Model to More Than One Explanatory Variable	Experiment with an on-line game Paper or Poster
Perfection What Influences Reaction Time	t-tests ANOVA Design of Experiments	Psychology		ANOVA Tutorial: Full Factorial Designs ANOVA Tutorial: Advanced Designs	Experiment with an on-line game Paper or Poster
Seed Germination	Design of Experiments	Ecology		ANOVA Tutorial: Full Factorial Designs	Experiment in biology lab Paper or Poster
Electric Fish	Categorical Data	Neurobiology	Space Shuttle Challenger		Experiment in biology lab Paper or Poster
Infant Handling among Yellow Baboons	Randomization Tests	Anthropology	Schistosomiasis: Parasitic Flatworms	Minitab Instructions for Schistosomiasis Lab	Randomization Test using R
Cash for Condoms: Population control and economic growth in third world countries	Multiple Regression	Econometrics	How Much is Your Car Worth? Car Data		2002 Worldbank Data Paper or Poster
Substance Abuse among Youth	Logistic Regression	Sociology	Malignant or Benign?
Superfund Sites and Leukemia	Poisson Regression	Biostatistics	Detecting Cancer Clusters
Global Warming Hockey Stick Graph	Principal Component Analysis	Environmental Studies	Stock Market Values		betas sigmas.txt Simulation study with R instructions on techniques used to reconstruct global surface temperatures Paper or Poster
HIV and Intravenous Drug Use	Survival Analysis	Medicine	Chocolate Chips
	Bayesian
	Time Series
Build a Better Cup	Response Surface Methodology/Optimization	Engineering			Predict optimum value of unknow equation based on sample data

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Interdisciplinary Research Projects