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Tea with a TA

Hang out with the TAs from STA 199! This is a casual conversation and a fun opportunity to meet the members of the STA 199 teaching team. The only rule is these can’t turn into office hours!

Tea with a TA counts as a statistics experience.

  • Ezinne Nwankwo, October 8, 2:30p - 3:30p
    • Click here to sign up. Zoom details will be emailed before the event.

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Questions from the video?

Clone a repo + start a new project

  • Clone the ae-15 repo and start a new project in RStudio.

  • Configure git by running the code below in the console. Be sure to fill in your GitHub username and email associated with your Github account.

library(usethis)
use_git_config(user.name= "your github username", user.email="your email")

Load data and packages

library(tidyverse)
library(infer)

parkinsons <- read_csv("data/parkinsons.csv")

Exercise 1

Construct and interpret a 95% confidence interval for the difference in mean shimmer (in dB) between the PD and non-PD individuals using a simulation-based approach.

Exercise 2

Repeat Exercise 1 using a CLT-based approach.

Exercise 3

Is there evidence that there is a difference in shimmer between these two groups? Perform a formal statistical hypothesis test using a simulation-based method to answer this question. Include the hypotheses, null distribution, p-value and conclusion stated in the context of the research problem.

Exercise 4

Repeat Exercise 3 using the Central Limit Theorem.