Introduction 9/8: General Topic: Health Questions: 1. How do the the life expectancy in the U.S. from 1960-2010 compare to life expectancy in Zimbabwe? 2. How will drugs affect someone in the future? 3. What are some causes of cancer? 4. What are some harmful chemicals in processed food and how would it affect someone's health?
Links: 1. 2 sets of comparable data (C1 & C2) U.S. life expectancy for overall population in 1960 vs 2011
2. A data set with 2 variables, one of which you think may be an explanatory variable & the other being a response variable. (C3) Drug use can lead to significant changes in people's brain https://www.evernote.com/pub/15mma/apstatsproject
3. One experiment related to your topic- (an experiment has a random assignment to treatments, preferably double blind) (C5)
4. One case study related to your topic- (data of interest is collected without random assignment to a treatment. (C5) Preventing serious illnesses with usage of drugs
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