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  • Song: The P-value Polka

    Song consists of the meaning of a p-value. May be sung to the tune of "Roll out the Barrel" (Lew Brown, Wladimir A. Timm, Vasek Zeman and Jaromir Vejvoda). Musical accompaniment realization and vocals are by Joshua Lintz from University of Texas at El Paso.

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  • Song: Scientific Method Blues

    Song is an informal overview introducing the conceptual steps of the scientific method. Recorded on the CD "Science Songs and Stories For the Big Questions", available at www.kathleencarroll.com.

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  • Cartoon: Beethoven's unfinished work

    A cartoon that can be used in teaching about pie charts. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites.

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  • Song: Statisfaction

    Song playfully depicts a college student struggling to master statistics at the hands of authority figures. May be sung to the tune of "Satisfaction" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards).

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  • Video: Statz Rappers

    This video is a humorous refresher of statistics methodology. This rap video presents a parody with statistical references. It is quite entertaining.

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  • Selective Attention: Gorilla Video

    This video is an example of what is known in psychology as selective attention. When a person is instructed to only focus on the number of times a ball is passed between players wearing a white shirt it is sometimes difficult to see what else is going on.

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  • Illuminations: Birthday Paradox

    This lesson plan uses the Birthday Paradox to introduce basic concepts of probability. Students run a Monte Carlo simulation using the TI-83 graphing calculator to generate random dates, and then search for matching pairs. Students also perform a graphical analysis of the birthday-problem function. Key Words: Permutations; Explicit Function; Recursive Function; Modeling.

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  • Against All Odds Index

    This text document is a detailed index of the Against All Odds video series. This detailed index allows instructors to quickly find stories that can be used in the classroom. The author also includes the his ratings of which video segments are useful in the classroom. The actual videos are viewable online and are also indexed in CAUSEweb.

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  • Chi Square Test of Deviations from Expected Frequencies

    The applet allows users to sample from a normal distribution or from a uniform distribution. It shows the expected values and the observed values and computes the deviation. Then, a chi-square test shows if the deviations are significant for both the normal and uniform distributions.

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  • Dataset Example: Reliability and Regression Analysis

    This applet demonstrates how the reliability of X and Y affect various aspects of the regression of Y on X.

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