Your stats world
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GR & GV Potpourri
Football (soccer ?) and Canadian sports
Bob's Bazaar
100

On 1000 degrees of freedom, what t statistic value will have approximately 97.5 % of other t-values less than it ?

What is 1.96 (or 2)

100

When you're going east on the Laker Line, this bus stop is the second one after turning onto Lake Michigan Drive (after MAK)

What is Cummings ?

100

In Canada, the awesome sport of curling has had its national championship won most often by the provinces of Manitoba & Alberta. In the USA, the national curling championship has been won most often by Wisconsin and this other state

What is Minnesota?

100

BD has been a fan of the two-time Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks since he was 10 years old. He saw his first Seattle Seahawk home game in 2024.

BD has been to 14 seahawk road games and 4 of these games were against the same team. Which one ?

What is the Detroit Lions ?

200

This multiple comparison test was mentioned in STA 610 as being appropriate for comparisons exclusively between a control and new drug 

What is Dunnett's Test

200

The Grand Rapids Griffins play in the Central Division of the AHL. Name another team in their division.

What are one of Chicago Wolves, Milwaukee Admirals, Rockford Icehogs, Iowa Wild, Texas Stars, Manitoba Moose ?

200

In 2002, this African country upset Brazil in the World Cup.  They also hold the record for most World Cup wins by an African country

What is Cameroon ?

200

This group of animated characters have always wanted to follow an evil mastermind.  One of them is a Bob who wears overalls and carries a teddy bear.

What are the Minions ?

300

One of your required stats courses was originally a 2 credit course . Which one ?

What is STA 623 ? (Categorical)

300

This person is is going to be the first performer at the new Acrisure Amphitheater on May 15, 2026 

Who is Lionel Richie ?

300

Dominant Canadian Mens Olympic Hockey Teams beat the USA for the gold medal in 2002 & 2010 in these 2 North American cities

What are Salt Lake City and Vancouver ?

300

There are 3 Atlantic Canadian provinces which are in the same time zone as Bermuda and BD has lived in 2 of them.

 Name 1 of these 3 Atlantic Canadian provinces

What are Nova Scotia or New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island.

400

BD's first SAS paper involved new features for what procedure ?

What is PROC LOGISTIC ?

400

This is the largest College (in terms of undergraduate enrollment) at GVSU

What is the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences ? (CLAS)

400

The younger son of BD's favorite princess has the same first name of an English soccer star that played for Tottenham and now plays for Bayern Munich

(first and last name)


Who is Harry Kane ?

400

A similar concept to a bazaar is the North American flea market. The largest one in the MidWest is about 40 miles east of Touchdown Jesus in this town .

What is Shipshewana, Indiana ?

500

In a one sample situation, all else being the same: After multiplying the sample size by 4, the new width of a confidence interval will be multiplied by this amount

What is one-half ?

500

Brian Kelly, most recently as head football coach of LSU was the head football coach at GVSU between 1991 and 2003. Name 2 of the 3 schools he coached between GVSU and LSU.

Two from Central Michigan University, University of Cincinatti, Notre Dame

500

If you were a running back in the Canadian Football League and took a hand-off on your own 1 yard line, how many yards would you have to run on this play to get a touchdown ?


What is 109 ?

500

This brother of the 35th president of the United States was assassinated in the Ambassador hotel in Losa Angeles in 1963

Who is Bobby Kennedy ?

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