Figure 1: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/09/health/map-obamacare/.
Figure 2: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/17/fact-sheet-affordable-care-act-numbers.
in Figure 1), lots of opinion articles with
forecasts, but no data. I punted and decided to present the class a similar but
far less-pressing problem. On March 31,
the day of the midterm exam, I asked
students to make forecasts for the
A NA L Y T I C S
cumulative domestic box-office gross for
the recently released movie “Non-Stop.”
The action film starring Liam Neeson
had opened on Feb. 28, and I gave the
students the daily domestic box-office
gross values from opening day through
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