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  • DIG Stats: TI-83 Guide for Calculating Correlation

    This tutorial explains in detail how to calculate correlation with a TI-83 graphing calculator.

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  • DIG Stats: Lifespan Activity

    In this activity, students will calculate the correlation between the ratio of doctors to people and the average lifespan for 40 countries. The dataset contains the name of the country, the number of citizens per doctor, and the average female lifespan (in years). Questions about the exercise and a link to Excel instructions are given. The data exist in Excel data format and text format.

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  • DIG Stats: Football Activity

    In this activity, students will perform a t-test to determine if there is a significant difference between the kicking distances of a football filled with helium and one filled with regular air. Questions about the exercise and links to Excel and TI-83 instructions are given. The data exist in Excel, TI-83, and text formats.

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  • DIG Stats: Laminated Composites Activity

    In this activity, students will perform a two-way ANOVA to determine if there is a difference in the amount of pressure (in Mpa) it takes to break two different types of laminated composites under wet or dry conditions. Questions about the exercise and links to Excel and TI-83 instructions are given. The data exist in Excel, TI-83, and text formats.

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  • DIG Stats: GPA and SAT Activity

    In this activity, students will calculate the correlation between GPA and SAT scores on 1000 students. The dataset contains high school GPA, college GPA, and SAT score for each student. Questions about the exercise and a link to Excel instructions are given. The data exist in Excel and text formats.

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  • DIG Stats: Seed Harvester Ant Activity

    In this activity, students will calculate confidence intervals for the mean weight (in milligrams) of seed harvester ants for 4 size classes of the ants. Questions about the exercise and links to Excel and TI-83 instructions are given. This data exists in Excel, TI-83, and text formats.

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  • Dataset: DIG Stats: Baseball Salaries Activity

    In this activity, students will calculate the mean, median, and mode of the salaries for the Angels and the Orioles baseball players. Questions about the exercise and links to Excel and TI-83 instructions. The data exists in Excel, TI-83, and text formats.

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  • JAVA Comparing distributions

    This simulation shows recorded response times on a simple motor task under two conditions. Various statistics and graphs used to compare the distributions are presented.

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  • Video: Against All Odds: 17. Samples and Surveys

    This free online video program "shows how to improve the accuracy of a survey by using stratified random sampling and how to avoid sampling errors such as bias. While surveys are becoming increasingly important tools in shaping public policy, a 1936 Gallup poll provides a striking illustration of the perils of undercoverage."

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  • ** Introduction to Minitab

    This laboratory introduces students to the basics of the Minitab software. Students make use of a basic example (water consumption and temperature) to introduce students to manipulation of data, calculation of descriptive statistics, creation of histograms, boxplots and scatterplots. Students are asked to hand in the results they have produced. Accompanying documents give model solutions.

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