Some Favorite Car Activities

We describe a series of class activities and student project topics that all revolve around data about cars that can be used at various points of a first or second course in statistics. In several of the projects, students work with their own datasets where they have some choice in selecting the population to sample from, via a convenient web form. However, we maintain a consistent set of variables and format to facilitate grading. Topics include correlation, regression (simple and multiple), ANOVA for means, and ANCOVA. We discuss ideas for organizing these activities and using RMarkdown documents to facilitate assessment.