Math 143 F
Probability and Statistics
Spring 2000

"Overhead", Demo and Web Resources Index

Tuesday, February 1

• What is statistics?
• Old Faithful Eruption Times
• Histogram Bin Sizes
• Survey 1 (Fill-in Web Form)

• Survey 2 (Results)
• Survey 3 (Results)
• Did the Holocoust really happen?
• Some biased questions put together by another class
• Seven Critical Components that determine the soundness of statistical studies. (J. Utts)

• Random Integer Generator

• Correlation Coefficient Guessing Game: Compete against Calvin 143 students or the world

• Normal Distribution Applets from Seeing Statistics. My fovorite of these can be used to find the percentage of a normal distribution (with user specified mean and standard deviation) that lies between any two values by dragging the edges of the shaded portion of a normal probability curve.
• Normal Distributions. This applet will draw and shade various normal distributions and demonstrate the 68-95-99.7 Rule.

• Survey 2 Results
• Survey 3 Results

• Survey 2 Results
• Survey 3 Results
• WebStat: due stats on the web!
• Chi-Square Test
• Probability Basics

• Seven Critical Components that determine the soundness of statistical studies. (J. Utts)
• Monty Hall Problem:
  • MSTE version
  • This is one of several games available from the CUWU Statistics Program.
  • The Let's Make a Deal version done by Webster West includes an explanation.
• Probability (and Statistics) Demos at Cut The Knot, a site with demos from many areas of mathematics.

• Sampling Distributions Demo (Categorical data)
• Some notes on sampling distributions

• Sampling Distributions Demo
• Confidence Interval Simulator for Means

• What do I do with this Data?

Tuesday, May 9

• Case study: Self-concept in 7th grade. This example show how to do many of the things we have done this semester. The html isn't pretty, but you should have gotten this as a handout in class as well. For a prettier version, try a rich text format (rtf) version. This should be readable by Microsoft Word.

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