SCI 199 L0411 -- Chance Governs All -- 2005-2006

Ideas of topics for major paper (running list)

Some useful and interesting books (running list)

Three sample paper proposals (from Nancy Reid)

Hand-out on presentations

Hand-out on paper due April 13

Hand-out on paper proposal due March 2

Purdue Online Writing Lab MLA Style Reference (pdf)

Course outline (pdf)

For class on Thursday, October 6 read the article Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral choices
How can you ensure a coin is flipped so that it is fair, i.e. equally likely to come up Heads and Tails?

Hand-outs from Thursday, October 13:
Mini-project 1 (pdf)
Article "The Odds of That" for mini-project 1 (MSWord)
Article "Science probes mystery of mind over matter" for mini-project 1 (MSWord)
Probability hand-out for mini-project 1 (pdf)
Reading assignment for Thursday, October 20 (pdf)

Hand-outs from Thursday, October 27:
Mini-project 2 (pdf)
Reading assignment for November 3 (pdf)

Hand-out on Thursday November 2:
Ball hits dove

Reading for Thursday November 16 is available electronically through the UofT library website from the journal The American Statistician.
H. Wainer (1984) How to Display Data Badly. The American Statistician 38, 137-147.

Hand-out from December 8 briefly discussing your final paper

E-mail course instructor: alison.gibbs@utstat.utoronto.ca