Resource Library

Advanced Search | Displaying 1181 - 1190 of 1434
  • This article discusses a project-based approach to teaching statistics. An appendix contains a list of 20 projects that have been successfully assigned.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This course features a full set of lecture notes and problem sets introducing students to the modeling, quantification, and analysis of uncertainty. Topics covered include: formulation and solution in sample space, random variables, transform techniques, simple random processes and their probability distributions, Markov processes, limit theorems, and elements of statistical inference.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This course in Statistical Mechanics features problem sets and exams. Basic principles examined include: the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy; postulates of classical statistical mechanics, microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical distributions; applications to lattice vibrations, ideal gas, photon gas; quantum statistical mechanics; Fermi and Bose systems; and interacting systems: cluster expansions, van der Waal's gas, and mean-field theory.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This article contains practical information on teaching statistics to a political science class.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This page contains a short article on Simpson's Paradox with an example of how standardizing changes the results. It also contains links to other articles on Simpson's Paradox, including a newspaper article illustrating that this topic is timely.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This page contains information and links about statistical literacy. Some links are to textbooks, online articles, resources, and information about upcoming events.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This page has data sets used by UCLA statistics classes. The html files in the second column contain descriptions of a particular data set and a link to the data at the end of the file. There are also .dat and .dta files that contain just data, with no description.
    0
    No votes yet
  • The ICPSR provides access to a large repository of social science and political data. Data sets can be constructed and downloaded for use in most popular statistical packages.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This site describes what to do with data sets instead of simply presenting theory and methods as they appear in standard textbooks. It emphasizes statistical practices.
    0
    No votes yet
  • Each dataset in this collection includes description of the study, description of the data file, statistical topic covered, and reference. Topics addressed include: correlation, one-way ANOVA, Bonferroni multiple comparison procedure, regression (simple, multiple, and loglinear), chi-square, and the t-test.
    0
    No votes yet

Pages