Is There A Difference Unit Portfolio

Part 1: Unit Summary

Learning Statement
Tell the story of how you made sense of the different concepts throughout this unit.
1. Concepts of sample, population, hypothesis, null hypothesis and sample fluctuation
2. How to use standard deviation and normal distribution to determine whether a difference is significant
3. How to calculate χ2
4. How to use proportional reasoning to determine expected values in a two population case and how to apply χ2 to a two population
and theoretical model problem.

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During the first part of this unit we discussed

1. Try this Case
A’s and Measles
the concepts of sample, population, hypothesis,
null hypothesis and sample fluctuation. To start
off a problem you need a population that needs
to be sampled. (sample population). Then you
state a hypothesis, it has to be in favor that there
will be a difference. The null hypothesis is the
opposite, stating that there is no difference in
the situation. Sample fluctuation is the expected
variance in the results of a test. It’s not very
likely that the results will be as expected.
 Standard deviation is what shows how
spread apart data is. It determines how
close or how far apart the data is. Here is
an example of how to solve for the standard
deviation of a set. Add numbers together,
15,10,20,10,15= 70. Find the mean 70
divided by the amount of numbers (5).
Then subtract each number by the mean of
those 5 numbers. After subtracting them,
you square root them, after finding each
square root you add them together then
divide by the initial number you started with
(5). The final step is to take the square root
of the average standard deviation.
2. Bacterial Culture
Decisions with deviation

Chi- squared, aka the thing with the symbol

that just scares people. It really just means
(observed-expected) squared then
subtracted from expected. This expression
is computed for each observed number.
The x2 statistic is defined to be the sum of
these results. In the worksheet Late in the
day, we had a expected number of 42 and
observed of 57 for the last 2 hours of the
day then expected 126 and observed 111
for the first 6 hours. With those numbers we
did the obs-exp (squared) then subtracted.
Which then equalled x2=7.37 with that we
found the probability rate of 0.007.

​3. Late in the day

 To find expected values you need get the
observed and expected data for each of the
data points. This is something that can be
done in a two way table. Most of the data is
typically already in the problem, so it’s a
matter of plugging it and finding the missing
numbers. The plugged in data determines if
its weird or not.

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