Producing Data

So we've moved into survey design and experimental design. (Chapter 5 in the text.)

Important vocabulary:
Population
sample
census
bias
nonreaponse bias
undercoverage
response bias
convenience sample
stratified random sample
systematic random sample (like The Lottery by Shirley Jackson)
simple random sample (SRS)


We used the Table of Random Digits to (1) pick a sample, (2) Simulate a random event, and (3) randomly allocate participants to experimental treatments.

We have looked at a few experimental design/survey design questions from previous exams.

HW due Thursday 11/4: Problems 5.2, 5.3, 5.10 ,5.11
HW due Friday 11/5: Written answers on your own paper to the 1998 and 2002 experimental design questions handed out in class.