Stat 1000 Tips for Assignments about Selecting Samples and Designing Experiments
Published: Fri, 10/08/10
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Tips for Assignments about Selecting Samples and Designing Experiments
For those of you using Web Assign these tips refer to Assignment 3, I believe. If you are taking the course by distance/online, these tips probably relate to your Assignments 5 and 6. If you are doing good old-fashioned paper hand-in assignments, these tips will help you with part of Assignment 2, I believe (you will also need to look at my tips for Linear Regression assignments).
Study Lesson 4 in my book, if you have it, to prepare for this assignment.
Thankfully, there is no JMP needed for this stuff.
For those of you who are using Web Assign and have to draw one of those arrow charts and upload it, there are many ways to do it and it depends on how fancy you want to get and what program you are using. A pretty simple way might be to insert a table into your document (In Word, select Insert, and choose Table) and give yourself lots of rows and columns to work with (I'd say at least 4 columns and 5 rows; you can always add extra rows if you need them by just pressing the Tab button when your curser is in the last cell of the last row). Type in the various words you want in the approximate positions throughout the table. To connect words together with arrows insert arrows (in Word, select Insert, Shape, and select the Arrow). You then use your mouse to click where you want the arrow to start and where you want it to stop. Get rid of the lines on your table by right-clicking your mouse while pointing anywhere in the table and selecting Table Properties. Then, select Borders and Shading and select None. Don't get rid of the lines until you have made your whole chart since the lines will help you place your words throughout.