Workshop on Teaching Introductory Statistics
Online Resources: A Few Examples by Resource Type
Roger Woodard & Ginger Holmes Rowell
July 10th - 13th, 2006
Collection
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Rossman/Chance Applet Collection by A. Rossman, B. Chance, F. Garcia & C. Lima
http://www.rossmanchance.com/applets/
Statistical Java by C. Anderson-Cook, s. Dorai-Raj, T. Robinson, B. Noble
http://kitchen.stat.vt.edu/~sundar/java/applets/
The Data and Story Library by M. Hutcheson, M. Meyer, C. Olson, P. Velleman, & J. Walker
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/
Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Examples and Exercises, W.H. Freeman & Co.
http://www.whfreeman.com/eesee/eesee.html
Lecture and Lab Things by D. Howell
http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/More_Stuff/ClassLab.html
Rice Virtual Laboratories in Statistics by D. Lane http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html
ARTIST by J. Garfield, B. Chance, R. delMas https://app.gen.umn.edu/artist/
Case Study
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Instructor Reputation and Teacher Ratings by D. Lane
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/case_studies/instructor_reputation/index.html
Physical Strength and Job Performance Case Study by D. Lane
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/case_studies/physical_strength/index.html
UCLA Statistics Case Studies by UCLA Department of Statistics http://www.stat.ucla.edu/cases/
Markov vs. Markov: Divorce by the Numbers by C. Rump
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/markov/markov.html
Engineering Statistics Handbook Case Studies Edited by C. Croarkin and P. Tobias
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section4/eda42.htm
Drill and Practice or Quizzes
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Assessment Builder by R. DelMas, J. Garfield & B. Chance
https://app.gen.umn.edu/artist/assessment_builder_intro.html
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Biometry: Statistics for Ecology - Self Test by A. Georges
http://aerg.canberra.edu.au/envirostats/bm/selftest.htm
Design Case Study: Planning a Study by A. Rossman & B. Chance
http://statweb.calpoly.edu/chance/inspire/salk.doc
Practice Questions for Business Statistics by B. Schott
http://www2.gsu.edu/~dscbms/ibs/qcontent.html
Statistics and Data Analysis for Public Policy and Sociology - Quizzes by D. Stangl
http://www.stat.duke.edu/~dalene/sta110/quizzes/
Reference Material
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Engineering Statistics Handbook Edited by C. Croarkin and P. Tobias
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http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm
Statistical Engineering by C. Annis http://www.statisticalengineering.com/index.html
Statistical Literacy (http://www.statlit.org) Standardizing http://www.statlit.org/Standardizing.htm
British Medical Journal: Statistics at Square One, 9th Edition, revised by M. Campbell,
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/collections/statsbk/
Raw Data
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Short’s Parallax of the Sun Data by J. Short on K. Siegrist’s website
http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/data/Short.xhtml
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).
http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/DIGSTATS/main/graphic/a_coastal_waters.htm
Diamond Ring Pricing Using Linear Regression by S. Chu,
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v4n3/datasets.chu.html
One-way ANOVA of PTSD Data of Foa et al. (1991) by D. Howell
http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/FoaFolder/Foa_Anova.html
Tutorials
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Sampling Distribution of the Mean Tutorial by WISE Team, D. Berger, Project Director
http://wise.cgu.edu/sdmmod/index.asp
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Random Variables Chapter of the DAU STAT Refresher by Center for Engineering, George
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Mason University http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/modules/dau/prob/randomvars/randomvars_frm.html
SPSS Tutorial – t tests in SPSS by L. Little http://courses.washington.edu/stat217/218tutorial1.html
Internal Validity Tutorial by D. Polson, C. Ng, and L. Grant. Supported by the Center for Psycholoyg,
Athabasca Univeristy, http://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Validity/index.shtml
Lecture/Presentation
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Do You Hear What I Hear? by NCTM Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L489
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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
http://teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/probability/lessonplans/genetics/day2-gen/home.html
Boxplot Analysis of Cricket Data original work by Central Virginia Governor's School students J.
Edgar and M. King (Class of '99) http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/DIGSTATS/main/graphic/a_3cri.html
Against All Odds Inside Statistics Online Video Series by the Consortium for Mathematics and
Its Applications and Chedd-Angier http://www.learner.org/resources/series65.html
Statistical Education Resource Kit: Probability (Lecture Notes) by H. McGrath
http://www.stat.psu.edu/~resources/ClassNotes/hrm_06/index.htm
Lecture Demonstration
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Normal Distribution, Interactive Statistics by Lind, Marchal, Wathen, 12Ed.
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072868244/124727/NormalDistribution.html
Time-Axis Fallacy and Bayes Theorem by R. Annis, M. Blundin, E. Greiling, G. Layman, A. Roussy,
S. Shirack, S. Harper, M. Timmerman
http://teacherlink.org/content/math/interactive/probability/lessonplans/bayes/home.html
Normal Distribution PowerPoint Slides by L. Simon
http://www.stat.psu.edu/~resources/ClassNotes/ljs_08/sld001.htm
Games (Money Hall, Poker Hands, Correlations) by the CUWU Statistics Program
http://www.stat.uiuc.edu/courses/stat100/cuwu/Games.html
Laboratory Activity
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Star Library Resource: Regression, Residuals, Why? by J. Miller
http://www.causeweb.org/repository/StarLibrary/activities/miller2001/
How Fair is Your Die, from Mrs. Smart’s Homepage http://www.lhs.logan.k12.ut.us/~jsmart/fairdice.htm.
ANOVA on Hardness Data original work by Central Virginia Governor's School student S. Sims (Class
of '05). http://www.cvgs.k12.va.us/DIGSTATS/main/inferant/a_viton.htm
Bernoulli Trials by K. Siegrist http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/bernoulli/index.xhtml
Homework Assignment
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Introduction to Hypothesis Testing – The Z-Test by D. Berger, C. Aberson, M. Healy, V. Romero
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and D. Kyle http://wise.cgu.edu/hypothesis/
Project #1: Data Summary by J. Holcomb http://academic.csuohio.edu/holcombj/projects/ncsum.pdf
Practice Problems t-tests by L. Woolf http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/ttest.html
Data Cleaning Assignment by J. Holcomb
http://academic.csuohio.edu/holcombj/clean/cleaningassignment.htm
Data Source
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MSTE Data Archive by the Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/malcz/DATA/ARCHIVE.html
Datasets from the Exploring Data website by R. Boggs http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/datasets.htm
Quantitative Environmental Learning Project by G. Langkamp and J. Hull
http://www.seattlecentral.edu/qelp/Data.html
Statistics Course Datasets from UCLA Researchers http://www.stat.ucla.edu/projects/datasets/
Villanova Nursing Research Dataset Archive, maintained by Tom Short
http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~short/MATC/
Simulations/Animations/Applets
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The Central Limit Theorem by C. Anderson-Cook, s. Dorai-Raj, T. Robinson, B. Noble
http://kitchen.stat.vt.edu/~sundar/java/applets/CLT.html
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Confidence Intervals, Interactive Statistics 12 Ed. by Lind, Marchal, Wathen
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072868244/124727/est_conApp.html
Correlation by C. Anderson-Cook, s. Dorai-Raj, T. Robinson, B. Noble
http://kitchen.stat.vt.edu/~sundar/java/applets/Correlation.html
Power of a Hypothesis Test Applet by R. Ogden
http://www.stat.sc.edu/~ogden/javahtml/power/power.html
Buffon’s Needle by C. Stanton http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/probstat/buffon.html
Understanding ANOVA Visually by Thomas Malloy
http://www.psych.utah.edu/stat/introstats/anovaflash.html
Sampling SIM by B.Chance, J. Garfield, B. delMas
www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff/delmas/stat_tools/index.htm
Analysis Tools
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StatCrunch by W. West http://www.statcrunch.com/