User:ASnieckus/Statistics/Web Resources

Online Courses/Textbooks

 * Collaborative Statistics, by Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D., Susan Dean, available at Connexions
 * Exploring data - graphs and numerical summaries, from OpenLearn, The Open University
 * Interpreting data: boxplots and tables, from OpenLearn, The Open University
 * Online Statistics: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study
 * Statistics, from Open Learning Initiatives, Carnegie Mellon University
 * Statistics: Power from Data!, from Statistics Canada
 * Probability and Statistics EBook, from UCLA Statistics Online Computational Resource
 * Statistics and Probability (Advanced Placement) flexbook, from cK12.org

Designed for particular analyses

 * Data Surfing - links to collections of datasets
 * Datasets from "Exploring Data" created by Rex Boggs
 * JSE Data Archive
 * The R Datasets Package
 * The R MASS Package

Data mining resources

 * US EPA datafinder - data resources for use in understanding environmental issues

Hands-on collaborative activities

 * M&M Activities
 * What is Fair? Mean, Median, Mode
 * STUDENTS’ REASONING ABOUT PROBABILITY SIMULATIONS DURING INSTRUCTION, by Gwendolyn Zimmermann: Strong basis for using activity-based instruction, includes specs for a number of activities on probability
 * The candy weighing demonstration, or, the unwisdom of crowds, illustrates concepts of sampling bias and standard error of an estimator

Study designs

 * Research methods laboratory. Provides examples of 5 different study designs: experiment, correlational, naturalistic observational, survey, case study

Student projects

 * [http://www.bbn-school.org/us/math/ap_stats/index.html


 * Small Student Projects in an Introductory Statistics Course argues that the fundamental goal of a statistics course should be "To enable students to discover that statistics can be an important tool in daily life" and that student projects can be instrumental in achieving this goal. The paper provides many examples of such projects.

Probability

 * Distributome - An Interactive Web-based Resource for Probability Distributions

Resource Links

 * AP Statistics Course Home Page
 * BB&N AP Statistics
 * StatsMonkey, a website providing support for teaching and learning AP Statistics
 * UMass Amherst Biostatistics course syllabus - many resource links
 * Publisher's web site to support Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, by David S. Moore and George P. McCabe -- resources are copyrighted, but could provide some ideas for Open Ed content
 * Bob Hayden's Statland.org
 * How to Understand Statistics
 * Statistics Every Writer Should Know, A simple guide to understanding basic statistics, for journalists and other writers who might not know math.
 * An emerging model: Introductory statistics with community-based projects, a one semester college course. (A SENCER resource)
 * Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics
 * Free/Libre Open Source Science Education Graphing Calculator Instructions
 * TI 83/84 Tutorials - both graphing and stat functions

Statistics Education
Hayden, Robert W. (2000). "Advice to Mathematics Teachers on Evaluating Introductory Statistics Textbooks". in Thomas Moore, ed, Teaching Statistics: Resources for Undergraduate Instructors.

Cobb, George W. (2007). The Introductory Statistics Course: A Ptolemaic Curriculum?. Technology Innovations in Statistics Education. 1, 1-14.

Statistical Literacy

 * Statistical Literacy
 * Full survey of statistical literacy; related links, including a 5-table survey on interpreting percentages
 * Stats.org, Statistical Assessment Service, serves to raise awareness to how "numbers are distorted and statistics misunderstood in the media and in society."

Statistics-related Images
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/correlation.png by xkcd.com

The Science News Cycle by phdcomics

Actual is not normal (a tribute to E. Tufte) - http://wikieducator.org/Image:Tufte-Actual_Normal.jpg

Statistics button - http://www.flickr.com/photos/punkwalrus/3051112465/

Dept of statistics - http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/3354428152/

Figures and statistics (handwritten table of numbers) - http://www.flickr.com/photos/joffley/118481375/

National Statistics (London) -http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexsegre/143496495/

Pictorial Statistics of air traffic in 1938 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/10413717@N08/2723816334/