EDUR 8131
Educational Statistics 1

Notes 3: Statistical Inference

(1) Summary Presentation

• Document: Statistical Inference Word
• Document: Statistical Inference PDF
• Video: Statistical Inference (41 minutes)

(2) Detailed Presentation 

• Read: Notes 3 Statistical Inference 
• Read: Moore et al text chapters 4 and 5 (these chapters covers notes 3 and 4 below).
• Watch and Read: Instructional Videos and Related Materials
  • Supplemental Notes Displayed in Videos  
  • Sections 1, 2, and 3: Inference, Estimates, Sampling and Randomness  
  • Sections 4 and 5: Point and Interval Estimates, Types of Distributions   
  • Section 6: Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean      
  • Section 7: Central Limit Theorem   
  • Section 8: Part 1 Logic for Confidence Intervals  
  • Section 8: Part 2 Example 1 for 95% Confidence Interval  
  • Section 8: Part 3 Example 2 for 95% Confidence Interval  
  • Section 8: Part 4 Example 3 for 95% Confidence Interval  
  • Sections 8 and 9: Part 5 Margin of Error and 99% Confidence Interval  
  • Section 8: Part 6 Excel Example of Confidence Intervals through Repeated Sampling  
  • Section 9: Margin of Error -- for video presentation see link above in Sections 8 and 9: Part 5.   
  • Section 10: Properties of Estimators   (to be added)
• Central Limit Theorem Illustrated 
• Excel file showing 95% CI and Standard Error of the Mean for 100 Random Samples     
• Supplemental Reading:
  • Statistical Inference, Hypothesis Testing (read this: logic of hypothesis testing)
  • Additional Coverage of Hypothesis Testing
    • http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/logic_hypothesis.html 
    • http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/gerstman/StatPrimer/Hyp-test.PDF
  • Instructor note: Old Excel file, no longer used: 2. Population, Sample, and Sampling Distributions