LAC 28:CXLII.2525. Making Inferences and Justifying Conclusions

A. Understand and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments. 1. Understand statistics as a process for making inferences about population parameters based on a random sample from that population. 2. Decide if a specified model is consistent with results from a given data-generating process. B. Make inferences and justify conclusions from sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies. 1. Recognize the purposes of and differences among sample surveys, experiments, and observational studies; explain how randomization relates to each. 2. Use data from a sample survey to estimate a population mean or proportion; develop a margin of error through the use of simulation models for random sampling. 3. Use data from a randomized experiment to compare two treatments; use simulations to decide if differences between parameters are significant. 4. Evaluate media or academic research based on data.