S2S Lab 5

1 Welcome!

Welcome to the the fifth S2S lab. This lab moves away from teaching specific coding practise and starts to use what we have learned in previous labs to start exploring some ideas in statistics. Specifically, this lab will introduce the concept of sampling distributions - what they are, how they're constructed and how we can use R to help us in creating them.

The sampling distribution is also covered in Chapter 6 Sampling and Sampling Distributions of Probability and Statistics with R, specifically Section 6.4 Sampling Distribution of \(\bar X\) of textbook runs through a similar example that the majority of this lab uses.

1.1 Investigating Engagement in Level 2 Statistics

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Level 2 Stats lecturers and tutors will have no knowledge of who has/hasn't given consent for their data to be included in the study.

There is also the optional extra opportunity to join a focus group.

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