Resource Library

Statistical Topic

Data Collection 599
Data Presentation 457
Probability 818
Statistics Education 87
Statistical Inference & Techniques 1207
Advanced Search | Displaying 311 - 320 of 528

  • SPSS tutorial for Multiple Comparisons

    This tutorial exposes students to conducting multiple comparisons in SPSS. This html based tutorial provides extensive screen shots and an example data set. Topics covered in the tutorial include one way ANOVA, preplanned contrasts, Bonferroni, Post Hoc Tukey's HSD, and Scheffe's multiple contrasts.

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

  • SPSS tutorial for chi-square tests

    This tutorial exposes students to conducting chi-square tests in SPSS. This html based tutorial provides extensive screen shots and an example data set.

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

  • Blindfold Climbers

    This article, in a series, describes a game, which tests opposing strategies through aspects of experiemental design.

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

  • Deriving Regression Lines Without Calculus

    This article describes a method to calculate the least squares line algebraically. First, the author uses a numeric example, which uses calculus, then describes a simpler algebraic method.

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

  • Making Students Aware of Bias

    The following exercise can illustrate the problem of bias in estimators to students in statistics courses. In some advanced courses an alternative estimator may be presented and properties of this estimator may be investigated via Monte Carlo studies.

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

  • The First shall be Last

    This article provides the example of student form orders to demonstrate the unreliability of combining data from two different distributions (or subjects).

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

  • Statistical Literacy Curriculum Design

    A specially-designed statistical literacy course is needed for college students in majors that don't require statistics or mathematics. This paper suggests that key topics in conditional probability, multivariate regression and the vulnerability of statistical significance to confounding should be included and presents some new ways to teach these ideas.

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

  • Three Graphs to Promote Statistical Literacy

    This paper presents three graphs that are used in teaching students majoring in business and the humanities. These graphs show the influence of confounding, the meaning of statistical significance, and the influence of confounding on statistical significance.

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

  • STATISTICAL LITERACY: READING TABLES OF RATES AND PERCENTAGES

    This paper presents rules for determining whether an index variable in such a table is part or whole depending on whether the associated margin value is an average, a sum or a 100% sum. Tables with missing margin values -- date-indexed tables, half tables and control tables -- are analyzed. Recommendations are made to improve reader understanding of any table involving rates or percentages.

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

  • Correlation, Determination, and Causality In Introductory Statistics

    This article discusses teaching causality without being discipline specific. It explains the causal differences between description, prediction and explanation.

    View Resource

    0
    No votes yet

Pages

register