STAT 155: Intro to Statistical Modeling

Macalester College
Spring 2026
Prof. Brianna Heggeseth

12 scatterplots of the same data with 12 different silly approaches to modeling the data
image source: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2048:_Curve-Fitting

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The in-class activities in this manual were developed by the Statistics faculty in the MSCS Department at Macalester College. Contributions include: Kelsey Grinde, Brianna Heggeseth, Alicia Johnson, Leslie Myint, Taylor Okonek, and Jedidiah Carlson. If you happen upon this manual and want to adapt the material to your own course, please properly attribute this work.




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