From BD's classes
A two way factorial with 3 levels to factor A and 4 levels to factor B will need this many total observations to investigate the interaction between A and B
What is 24 ?
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)
This GLIAC conference university is the closest to GVSU to the north.
What is Ferris State ?
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 state
What is Minnesota?
BD uses this phrase in an attempt to persuade you to only use p-value evidence in hypothesis testing.
What is 'Reject saying reject' ?
This test considers the homogeneity of odds ratios across k two by two tables
What is the Breslow Day test ?
With no information from a pilot study , this value of p (or p*) will be most conservative when planning a study for inference about a single proportion.
What is 0.5
This undergraduate course has the largest enrollment (summed over all sections) at GVSU during the regular academic year
What is STA 215 ?
There are two Canadian entertainers associated with each of these TV/movie characters: Austin Powers, Marty McFly, Shrek, Alex P. Keaton, Wayne Campbell (of Wayne's World)
Name one of them.
Who are Mike Myers or Michael J. Fox ?
BD's workplace prior to GVSU was in this city (a state capital)
What is Baton Rouge ?
This is a term for an adjustment performed after seeing evidence against a mean-variance equality in a Poisson regression.
What is Overdispersion ?
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 ?
There are now several brewpubs on Bridge Street that are within walking distance of the Pew campus. Name two of them.
What is New Holland (Kincikerbocker), or Atwater or Jolly Pumpkin or Harmony ?
In the following list, this city is the only one which is a provincial capital :
Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver
What is Toronto ?
Last week, BD talked about the cost of a pipe bursting in his second house in this Michigan town.
What is Manistee?
A fitted generalized logit model involving a single continuous predictor and a response with 4 categories will have this many estimated parameters ? (including intercept(s))
What is 6 ?
There is more than one GVSU stats faculty member with a PhD. from a university in South Carolina. Name one.
Who are Stephenson or Shoultz ?
This is the first street to cross the Grand River if you were to walk south from the Siedman College of Business building
What is Wealthy Street ?
This American border city has a Canadian counterpart with the same name and is at the northern end of Interstate 75
What is Sault St. Marie ?
An ex-husband of the late Whitney Houston, the song 'My Prerogative' was really that by this Bobby in 1988.
Who is Bobby Brown ?
Last week, BD posted and projected his first ever published paper and it involved a spatial analysis in this journal
What is Statistics in Medicine ?
Based on country of birth, name 2 GVSU stats faculty members who can not be president of the United States
Who are (two of) Jinn, Otieno, Downer
In between John Ball Zoo and the Pew campus, Canadians would likely not be able to resist stopping in for coffee at this place
What is Tim Hortons ?
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.
A winner of 2 Stanley Cups (1970, 1972) and 8 consecutive Norris trophies (1968-1975) in the NHL, this famous Bob was BD's childhood hero.
Who is Bobby Orr ?