Suggested Readings

ANDERSON-COOK, C. M., and SUNDAR DORAIRAJ. An active learning in-class demonstration of good experimental design, Journal of Statistics Education, 9, no. 1 (2001). See www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v9n1/anderson-cook.html. A good example of issues that arise when designing a randomized experiment. This article includes an applet that students can use to experience the experiment.

BOCK, DAVID E., PAUL F. VELLEMAN, and RICHARD D. DE VEAUX. Stats: Modeling the World, 4th ed., Pearson, Boston, 2015. This is another text on the topic of statistics, aimed at the mathematical level just above that of this book. The title offers a chapter (Chapter 19, “Confidence Intervals for Proportions”) that uses estimating a population proportion to introduce confidence intervals.

HANSON, ANDREW, and MICHAEL SANTAS. Field experiment for discrimination against Hispanics in the U.S. rental housing market, Southern Economic Journal, 81, no. 1 (July 2014): 135–167. See epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1445&context=econ_fac. Read the details of Hanson and Santas’s Internet field experiment (discussed in Spotlight 6.4 on page 265), which was designed to investigate discrimination against Hispanics in the rental housing market. Pay particular attention to Section 3, “Experiment Design.”

LESSER, LAWRENCE M., and ERIK NORDENHAUG. Ethical statistics and statistical ethics: Making an interdisciplinary module, Journal of Statistical Education, 12, no. 3 (2004). See www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v12n3/lesser.html. This article’s discussion includes ethical issues associated with surveys, experiments, and observational studies.

MOORE, DAVID S., WILLIAM I. NOTZ, & MICHAEL A. FLIGNER. The Basic Practice of Statistics (BPS), 7th ed., Freeman, New York, 2015. Chapters 8 and 9 discuss samples and experiments, Chapter 14 presents the reasoning of confidence intervals, and Chapter 19 addresses confidence intervals for a population proportion.