Building Conceptual Understanding of Statistical Inference
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Building Conceptual Understanding of Statistical
Inference
Patti Frazer Lock Cummings Professor of Mathematics
St. Lawrence [email protected]
Wiley Faculty NetworkMarch 2013
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The Lock5 Team
DennisIowa State
KariHarvard/Duke
EricUNC/Duke
Robin & PattiSt. Lawrence
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Increasingly important for our students (and us)
An expanding part of the high school (and college) curriculum
Statistics
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• General overview of the key ideas of statistical inference
• Introduction to new simulation methods in statistics
• Free resources to use in teaching statistics or math
This Presentation
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New Simulation Methods
“The Next Big Thing”
Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
Outstanding for helping students understand the key ideas of statistics
Increasingly important in statistical analysis
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New Simulation Methods
Increasingly important in DOING statistics
Outstanding for use in TEACHING statistics
Help students understand the key ideas of statistical inference
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What proportion of Reese’s Pieces are
Orange?Give each student an individual serving bag of Reese’s Pieces.
Have each “Find the proportion that are orange for your sample.”
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Proportion orange in many samples of size n=100
BUT – In practice, can we really take lots of samples from the same population?
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Statistical Inference• Using information from a sample to infer
information about a larger population.
Two main areas:• Confidence Intervals (to estimate)
• Hypothesis Tests (to make a decision)
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First: Confidence Intervals
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Example 1: What is the average price of a used Mustang car?
Select a random sample of n=25 Mustangs from a website (autotrader.com) and record the price (in $1,000’s) for each car.
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Sample of Mustangs:
Our best estimate for the average price of used Mustangs is $15,980.
Price0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
MustangPrice Dot Plot
𝑛=25 𝑥=15.98 𝑠=11.11
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Our best estimate for the average price of used Mustangs is $15,980, but how accurate is that estimate?
We would like some kind of margin of error or a confidence interval.
Key concept: How much can we expect the sample means to vary just by random chance?
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Traditional Inference2. Which formula?
3. Calculate summary stats
6. Plug and chug
𝑥± 𝑡∗ ∙ 𝑠√𝑛𝑥± 𝑧∗ ∙ 𝜎
√𝑛
,
4. Find t*
95% CI
5. df?
df=251=24
OR
t*=2.064
15.98±2 .064 ∙ 11.11√25
15.98±4.59=(11.39 ,20.57)7. Interpret in context
CI for a mean1. Check conditions
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“We are 95% confident that the mean price of all used Mustang cars is between $11,390 and $20,570.”
We arrive at a good answer, but the process is not very helpful at building understanding of the key ideas.
In addition, our students are often great visual learners but get nervous about formulas and algebra. Can we find a way to use their visual intuition?
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Bootstrapping
Assume the “population” is many, many copies of the original sample.
“Let your data be your guide.”
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Suppose we have a random sample of 6 people:
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Original Sample
A simulated “population” to sample from
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Bootstrap Sample: Sample with replacement from the original sample, using the same sample size.
Original Sample Bootstrap Sample
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Original Sample Bootstrap Sample
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Original Sample
BootstrapSample
BootstrapSample
BootstrapSample
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Bootstrap Statistic
Sample Statistic
Bootstrap Statistic
Bootstrap Statistic
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Bootstrap Distribution
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We need technology!
StatKeywww.lock5stat.com
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Using the Bootstrap Distribution to Get a Confidence Interval
Keep 95% in middle
Chop 2.5% in each tail
Chop 2.5% in each tail
We are 95% sure that the mean price for Mustangs is between $11,930 and $20,238
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Example #2 : According to an October 2012 CNN poll of n=722 likely voters in Ohio: 368 choose Obama (51%) 339 choose Romney (47%) 15 choose otherwise (2%)http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/pollingcenter/polls/3250
Find a 95% confidence interval for the proportion of Obama supporters in Ohio.
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StatKey
We are 95% confident that the proportion of likely voters in Ohio in October 2012 who support Obama is between 47.5% and 54.6%
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Why does the bootstrap
work?
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Sampling Distribution
Population
µ
BUT, in practice we don’t see the “tree” or all of the “seeds” – we only have ONE seed
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Bootstrap Distribution
Bootstrap“Population”
What can we do with just one seed?
Grow a NEW tree!
𝑥
Estimate the distribution and variability (SE) of ’s from the bootstraps
µ
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Example 3: Diet Cola and Calcium What is the difference in mean amount of calcium excreted between people who drink diet cola and people who drink water?Find a 95% confidence interval for the difference in means.
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What About Hypothesis Tests?
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P-value: The probability of seeing results as extreme as, or more extreme than, the sample results, if the null hypothesis is true.
Say what????
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Example 1: Beer and Mosquitoes
Does consuming beer attract mosquitoes? Experiment: 25 volunteers drank a liter of beer,18 volunteers drank a liter of waterRandomly assigned!Mosquitoes were caught in traps as they approached the volunteers.1
1 Lefvre, T., et. al., “Beer Consumption Increases Human Attractiveness to Malaria Mosquitoes, ” PLoS ONE, 2010; 5(3): e9546.
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Beer and Mosquitoes
Beer mean = 23.6
Water mean = 19.22
Does drinking beer actually attract mosquitoes, or is the difference just due to random chance?
Beer mean – Water mean = 4.38
Number of Mosquitoes Beer Water 27 21 20 22 21 15 26 12 27 21 31 16 24 19 19 15 23 24 24 19 28 23 19 13 24 22 29 20 20 24 17 18 31 20 20 22 25 28 21 27 21 18 20
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Traditional Inference
1 22 21 2
1 2
s sn n
X X
2. Which formula?
3. Calculate numbers and plug into formula
4. Plug into calculator
5. Which theoretical distribution?
6. df?
7. find p-value
0.0005 < p-value < 0.001
187.3
251.4
22.196.2322
68.3
1. Check conditions
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Simulation Approach
Beer mean = 23.6
Water mean = 19.22
Does drinking beer actually attract mosquitoes, or is the difference just due to random chance?
Beer mean – Water mean = 4.38
Number of Mosquitoes Beer Water 27 21 20 22 21 15 26 12 27 21 31 16 24 19 19 15 23 24 24 19 28 23 19 13 24 22 29 20 20 24 17 18 31 20 20 22 25 28 21 27 21 18 20
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Simulation ApproachNumber of Mosquitoes Beer Water 27 21 20 22 21 15 26 12 27 21 31 16 24 19 19 15 23 24 24 19 28 23 19 13 24 22 29 20 20 24 17 18 31 20 20 22 25 28 21 27 21 18 20
Find out how extreme these results would be, if there were no difference between beer and water.
What kinds of results would we see, just by random chance?
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Simulation ApproachNumber of Mosquitoes Beer Water 27 21 20 22 21 15 26 12 27 21 31 16 24 19 19 15 23 24 24 19 28 23 19 13 24 22 29 20 20 24 17 18 31 20 20 22 25 28 21 27 21 18 20
Find out how extreme these results would be, if there were no difference between beer and water.
What kinds of results would we see, just by random chance?
Number of Mosquitoes Beverage 27 21 20 22 21 15 26 12 27 21 31 16 24 19 19 15 23 24 24 19 28 23 19 13 24 22 29 20 20 24 17 18 31 20 20 22 25 28 21 27 21 18 20
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Simulation ApproachBeer Water
Find out how extreme these results would be, if there were no difference between beer and water.
What kinds of results would we see, just by random chance?
Number of Mosquitoes Beverage 20 22 21 15 26 12 27 21 31 16 24 19 19 15 23 24 24 19 28 23 19 13 24 22 29 20 20 24 17 18 31 20 20 22 25 28 21 27 21 18 20
27 212127241923243113182425211812191828221927202322
2026311923152212242920272917252028
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Traditional Inference
1 22 21 2
1 2
s sn n
X X
1. Which formula?
2. Calculate numbers and plug into formula
3. Plug into calculator
4. Which theoretical distribution?
5. df?
6. find p-value
0.0005 < p-value < 0.001
187.3
251.4
22.196.2322
68.3
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Beer and MosquitoesThe Conclusion!
The results seen in the experiment are very unlikely to happen just by random chance (just 1 out of 1000!)
We have strong evidence that drinking beer does attract mosquitoes!
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Example 2: Malevolent Uniforms
Do sports teams with more “malevolent” uniforms get penalized more often?
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Example 2: Malevolent Uniforms
Sample Correlation = 0.43
Do teams with more malevolent uniforms commit more penalties, or is the relationship just due to random chance?
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Simulation Approach
Find out how extreme this correlation would be, if there is no relationship between uniform malevolence and penalties.
What kinds of results would we see, just by random chance?
Sample Correlation = 0.43
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Randomization by ScramblingOriginal sample
MalevolentUniformsNFLNFLTeam NFL_Ma... ZPenYds <new>
1234567891011121314151617181920212223
LA Raiders 5.1 1.19
Pittsburgh 5 0.48
Cincinnati 4.97 0.27
New Orl... 4.83 0.1
Chicago 4.68 0.29
Kansas ... 4.58 -0.19
Washing... 4.4 -0.07
St. Louis 4.27 -0.01
NY Jets 4.12 0.01
LA Rams 4.1 -0.09
Cleveland 4.05 0.44
San Diego 4.05 0.27
Green Bay 4 -0.73
Philadel... 3.97 -0.49
Minnesota 3.9 -0.81
Atlanta 3.87 0.3
Indianap... 3.83 -0.19
San Fra... 3.83 0.09
Seattle 3.82 0.02
Denver 3.8 0.24
Tampa B... 3.77 -0.41
New Eng... 3.6 -0.18
Buffalo 3.53 0.63
Scrambled MalevolentUniformsNFLNFLTeam NFL_Ma... ZPenYds <new>
1234567891011121314151617181920212223
LA Raiders 5.1 0.44
Pittsburgh 5 -0.81
Cincinnati 4.97 0.38
New Orl... 4.83 0.1
Chicago 4.68 0.63
Kansas ... 4.58 0.3
Washing... 4.4 -0.41
St. Louis 4.27 -1.6
NY Jets 4.12 -0.07
LA Rams 4.1 -0.18
Cleveland 4.05 0.01
San Diego 4.05 1.19
Green Bay 4 -0.19
Philadel... 3.97 0.27
Minnesota 3.9 -0.01
Atlanta 3.87 0.02
Indianap... 3.83 0.23
San Fra... 3.83 0.04
Seattle 3.82 -0.09
Denver 3.8 -0.49
Tampa B... 3.77 -0.19
New Eng... 3.6 -0.73
Buffalo 3.53 0.09
Scrambled sample
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Malevolent UniformsThe Conclusion!
The results seen in the study are unlikely to happen just by random chance (just about 1 out of 100).
We have some evidence that teams with more malevolent uniforms get more penalties.
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P-value: The probability of seeing results as extreme as, or more extreme than, the sample results, if the null hypothesis is true.
Yeah – that makes sense!
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Example 3: Light at Night and Weight Gain
Does leaving a light on at night affect weight gain? In particular, do mice with a light on at night gain more weight than mice with a normal light/dark cycle?Find the p-value and use it to make a conclusion.
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Simulation Methods• These randomization-based methods tie directly to the key ideas of statistical inference.
• They are ideal for building conceptual understanding of the key ideas.
• Not only are these methods great for teaching statistics, but they are increasingly being used for doing statistics.
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How does everything fit together?• We use these methods to build understanding of the key ideas.
• We then cover traditional normal and t-tests as “short-cut formulas”.
• Students continue to see all the standard methods but with a deeper understanding of the meaning.
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It is the way of the past…
"Actually, the statistician does not carry out this very simple and very tedious process, but his conclusions have no justification beyond the fact that they agree with those which could have been arrived at by this elementary method."
-- Sir R. A. Fisher, 1936
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… and the way of the future“... the consensus curriculum is still an unwitting prisoner of history. What we teach is largely the technical machinery of numerical approximations based on the normal distribution and its many subsidiary cogs. This machinery was once necessary, because the conceptually simpler alternative based on permutations was computationally beyond our reach. Before computers statisticians had no choice. These days we have no excuse. Randomization-based inference makes a direct connection between data production and the logic of inference that deserves to be at the core of every introductory course.”
-- Professor George Cobb, 2007
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Additional Free Resourceswww.lock5stat.com
StatKey• Descriptive Statistics• Sampling Distributions (Reese’s Pieces!)
• Normal and t-DistributionsWiley Faculty Network: StatKey with Robin Lock
October 16, 2012
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