Trashball: A Logistic Regression Classroom Activity

Christopher H. Morrell and Richard E. Auer Loyola College in Maryland
Journal of Statistics Education Volume 15, Number 1 (2007)

Abstract
In the early 1990's, the National Science Foundation funded many research projects for improving statistical education. Many of these stressed the need for classroom activities that illustrate important issues of designing experiments, generating quality data, fitting models, and performing statistical tests. Our paper describes such an activity on logistic regression that is useful in second applied statistics courses. The activity involves students attempting to toss a ball into a trash can from various distances. The outcome is whether or not students are successful in tossing the ball into the trash can. This activity and the adjoining homework assignments illustrate the binary nature of a response variable, fitting and interpreting simple and multiple logistic regression models, and the use of odds and odds ratios.

Key Words: Odds, Odds ratio; Problem solving

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