Statistical Methods to Determine Trends in Hurricane Intensity

Statistical Methods to Determine Trends in Hurricane Intensity Classroom/Laboratory Activity A classroom/laboratory activity to learn about linear slope, trends, confidence intervals, and Student’s t-distribution by calculating trends and uncertainties using hurricane data records over 40 years. Using hurricane-related data for the Atlantic Ocean, students will plot graphs and determine trends by calculating linear slope. They […]

Linear Regression using Global Temperatures

Linear Regression using Global Temperatures Classroom/Laboratory Activity A classroom/lab activity for Statistics teachers to teach about Linear Regression. This activity is based on a dataset on average global temperature anomalies from 1850 to 2019. Students will learn about introductory linear regression techniques and will learn to make scatter plots of the data provided. This tool […]

Teaching Linear Regression using Global Temperature Anomalies Data

Teaching Linear Regression using Global Temperature Anomalies Data Overview As a high school or undergraduate Mathematics teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching introductory statistics and specifically linear regression. This lesson plan will allow you to teach introductory statistics through a linear regression assignment. The lesson plan includes […]