Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. The three program series features the practical application of statistics in the areas of medicine and political polling. In this video, data gathered from hospital admission records are analyzed and times, frequency, and general locations of outbreaks are plotted.
Calculations pinpoint serious outbreaks to a specific waterfront district.
When dried soybeans shells are found in the waterfront district, statisticians check dock manifests and discover that large soybean deliveries occurred on the days of the asthma outbreaks. The environmental problem that led to the outbreaks of asthma is ultimately traced to a faulty filtering system on a soybean storage silo. In the video, a statistician and an epidemiologist discuss environmental issues, statistical concepts such as clustering and case controlled studies, and how statistical models can be used to solve a mystery. Real world applications.