Online Resources: A Few Examples by Resource Type

"Finding Internet Resources for Teaching Statistics Using CAUSEweb"

August 7, 2006; 12:30 – 1:50 pm

2006 Joint Statistical Meetings

Seattle, Washington
GingerHolmesRowell
MiddleTennesseeStateUniversity

Collection

  • Rossman/Chance Applet Collectionby A. Rossman, B. Chance, F. Garcia & C. Lima
  • Statistical Javaby C. Anderson-Cook, s. Dorai-Raj, T. Robinson, B. Noble
  • The Data and Story LibrarybyM. Hutcheson, M. Meyer, C. Olson, P. Velleman, & J. Walker
  • Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Examples and Exercises, W.H. Freeman & Co.
  • Lecture and Lab Thingsby D. Howell
  • Rice Virtual Laboratories in Statisticsby D. Lane
  • ARTISTby J. Garfield, B. Chance, R. delMas

Case Study

  • Instructor Reputation and Teacher Ratingsby D. Lane
  • Physical Strength and Job Performance Case Studyby D. Lane
  • UCLA Statistics Case Studiesby UCLA Department of Statistics
  • Markov vs. Markov: Divorce by the Numbersby C. Rump
  • Engineering Statistics Handbook Case StudiesEdited by C. Croarkin and P. Tobias

Drill and Practice or Quizzes

  • Assessment Builderby R. DelMas, J. Garfield & B. Chance
  • Biometry: Statistics for Ecology - Self Testby A.Georges
  • Design Case Study: Planning a Studyby A. Rossman & B. Chance
  • Practice Questions for Business Statisticsby B. Schott
  • Statistics and Data Analysis for Public Policy and Sociology - Quizzesby D. Stangl

Reference Material

  • Engineering Statistics HandbookEdited by C. Croarkin and P. Tobias
  • Statistical Engineeringby C. Annis
  • Statistical Literacy(Standardizing
  • British Medical Journal: Statistics at Square One, 9th Edition, revised by M. Campbell,

Raw Data

  • Short’s Parallax of the Sun Databy J. Short on K. Siegrist’s website
  • Histogram of Coastal Waters, original work by Central Virginia Governor's School students A. Sliva (Class of '01), E. Hildreth, M. O'Callaghan, and A. Yu (Class of 2002).
  • Diamond Ring Pricing Using Linear Regression by S. Chu,
  • One-way ANOVA of PTSD Data of Foa et al. (1991)by D. Howell

Tutorials

  • Sampling Distribution of the Mean Tutorialby WISE Team, D. Berger, Project Director
  • Random Variables Chapter of the DAU STAT Refresherby Center for Engineering, George Mason University
  • SPSS Tutorial – t tests in SPSSby L. Little
  • Internal Validity Tutorialby D. Polson, C. Ng, and L. Grant. Supported by the Center for Psychology, Athabasca Univeristy,

Lecture/Presentation

  • Do You Hear What I Hear? by NCTM Illuminations
  • Probability, Genetics, and the Human Condition (Day 2)by R.Annis, M.Blundin, E.Greiling, G.Layman, A.Roussy, S.Shirack, S.Harper, M.Timmerman
  • Boxplot Analysis of Cricket Dataoriginal work by Central Virginia Governor's School students J. Edgar and M. King (Class of '99)
  • Against All Odds Inside Statistics Online Video Seriesby the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications and Chedd-Angier
  • Statistical Education Resource Kit: Probability (Lecture Notes)by H. McGrath

Lecture Demonstration

  • Normal Distribution, Interactive Statisticsby Lind, Marchal, Wathen, 12Ed.
  • Time-Axis Fallacy and Bayes Theorem by R. Annis, M. Blundin, E. Greiling, G. Layman, A. Roussy, S. Shirack, S. Harper, M. Timmerman
  • Normal Distribution PowerPoint Slidesby L. Simon
  • Games (Money Hall, Poker Hands, Correlations)by the CUWU Statistics Program

Laboratory Activity

  • Star Library Resource: Regression, Residuals, Why? by J. Miller
  • How Fair is Your Die, from Mrs. Smart’s Homepage
  • ANOVA on Hardness Dataoriginal work by Central Virginia Governor's School student S. Sims (Class of '05).
  • Bernoulli Trialsby K. Siegrist

Homework Assignment

  • Introduction to Hypothesis Testing – The Z-Testby D. Berger, C. Aberson, M. Healy, V. Romero and D. Kyle
  • Project #1: Data Summaryby J. Holcomb
  • Practice Problems t-testsby L. Woolf
  • Data Cleaning Assignmentby J. Holcomb

Data Source

  • MSTE Data Archiveby the Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Datasets from the Exploring Data websiteby R. Boggs
  • Quantitative Environmental Learning Projectby G. Langkamp and J. Hull.
  • Statistics Course Datasetsfrom UCLA Researchers
  • Villanova Nursing Research Dataset Archive, maintained by Tom Short

Simulations/Animations/Applets

  • The Central Limit Theoremby C. Anderson-Cook, s. Dorai-Raj, T. Robinson, B. Noble
  • Confidence Intervals, Interactive Statistics 12 Ed. by Lind, Marchal, Wathen
  • Correlation by C. Anderson-Cook, s. Dorai-Raj, T. Robinson, B. Noble
  • Power of a Hypothesis Test Appletby R. Ogden
  • Buffon’s Needle by C. Stanton
  • Understanding ANOVA Visuallyby Thomas Malloy
  • Sampling SIMby B.Chance, J. Garfield, B. delMas

Analysis Tools

  • StatCrunch by W. West

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