Useful Sites for
Statistics
Home page for Introduction to
Practice of Statistics includes Java Applets, and Quizzes especially for
the textbook
Home page for Statistcs:
Concepts and Controversies includes Java Applets and Quizzes especially for
the textbook
Java Demonstrations
General links
Rice
University
Duke University
CUWU
Statistics Program
Virtual Lab in Probability and
Statistics
Globally Accessible Statistical
Procedures
Java Applets for
demonstration of statistical tests
Java Applets for
demonstration of statistical tests- Virginia Tech
Specific Topics
Descriptive Statistics
Mean and
Median
Histogram
problems
Probability
Probability Lab
Interactive Probability Simulations
Permutations
and Combinations (See chapter 7)
Random
or Patterns?
Law of
Large Numbers
Normal
Approximation for the Binomial
Calculating
the area under a Normal Distribution
Example using the roll
of dice
Coupon Collector
Buffon's Needle
Correlations
Guessing
Correlations
Investigate
the relationship between data points, and its corresponding corelation
coefficient
Regressions
Effect of Outliers
Hypothesis Tests
Problems
with Hypothesis Testing
326
Articles/Books Questioning the Indiscriminate use of Statistical Hypothesis
Testing in Observational Studies
p-value and setting to p =.05
Example of
effects of power when changing alpha, sample size, difference in means
Central Limit Theorem
Sampling
distribution of a sample mean
The Quincunx
(this takes a while to run)
Confidence Intervals
Demonstration
of inclusion of parameter
Demonstration
of width of interval
Random numbers
Random number generator
Problems with “randomization” by using YOUR
assignment method
Randomization of
subjects
Simpson’s Paradox
Representations
Survey Sampling
Twenty questions a
journalist should ask about poll results
What is a survey?
Poll
Methodology
Pew Research
methodology
Visualization of Data
Lots
of graphs to compare
Professional Organizations
(check out their links)
The American Association for
the Advancement of Science
American Mathematical Society
American Statistical Association
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Links to other sites with
links to useful sites
WISE (Web Interface for Statistics
Education) tutorials, glossaries, and links
Robin Lock (a
professor who has been creating web pages while the rest of us were deciphering
e-mail)
Education Index - Statistics
History of Statistics
Cool
pictures, interesting biographies
Datasets
The Number: Box
Office, Movie Stars, Idle Speculation
Census Data
Statistics from Federal Agencies
General Social
Survey
AP Statistics
AP-Statistics homepage
On-line Texts
SticiGui: Statistical Tools for Internet and Classroom
Instruction with a Graphical User Interface by Philip B. Stark, Berkeley