This music video describing the meaning/interpretation of an influential point in a regression analysis was created by Mary McLellan, a teacher at Aledo High School in Texas, who wrote the lyric and performed and produced the video. The song is sung to the tune of the 1978 song “You’re the one that I want” from the movie Grease. The song was part of a pair of songs that took third place in the 2019 A-mu-sing Contest.
This music video describing the problem with extrapolating beyond the range of the data in making predictions was created by Mary McLellan, a teacher at Aledo High School in Texas, who wrote the lyric and performed and produced the video. The song is sung to the tune of the 1984 Bruce Springsteen hit “Born in the U.S.A.” The song was part of a pair of songs that took third place in the 2019 A-mu-sing Contest.
A haiku poem that makes a parallel of parsimony between poetry and a statistical model (imagine changing its middle line to “predictors to a model”).
The poem was written by Lawrence Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso in February 2021 and published in the April 2021 Amstat News.
A video from the 2019 US Conference On Teaching Statistics where Dennis Pearl from Penn State University is introducing the winner of that year's CAUSE/USCOTSLifetime Achievement Award in Statistics Education. He tells a story that can be useful in teaching the lesson that linear regression is inappropriate for making predictions well outside the range of the data. The story is loosely based on the phone call he made in ordering the trophy for the award.
A cartoon that can be a vehicle to discuss how finding an appropriate data visualization may require multiple revisions to ensure it is aligned with what is important in the data. The cartoon was used in the August 2022 CAUSE cartoon caption contest and the winning caption was written by Elise Lahiere, a student at Montclair State University. The cartoon was drawn by British cartoonist John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea by Dennis Pearl from Penn State University.
A cartoon that can be used to introduce a variety of issues in the regression setting. The cartoon was used in the April 2021 CAUSE cartoon caption contest and the winning caption was written by Christopher Jay Lacke from Rowan University. The cartoon was drawn by British cartoonist John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea by Dennis Pearl from Penn State University.
A cartoon that can be used to discuss the importance of proper scaling to give a fair picture in graphical displays. The cartoon was used in the October 2020 CAUSE cartoon caption contest and the winning caption was written by Chris Lacke from Rowan University.. The cartoon was drawn by British cartoonist John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea by Dennis Pearl from Penn State University.
A cartoon to be used in discussing forecasting. The cartoon was created by American cartoonist Jon Carter.
A humorous cartoon to initiate a conversation about scatterplots, the strength of linear relationships and the effect of outliers. The cartoon was drawn by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2014.
A cartoon that can be used to discuss the expression for a simple linear equation (Y=mx+b). The cartoon was drawn by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2013.