Statistics
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National
Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
Gallery
of Data Visualization - Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics
"Good graphical
displays of data communicate ideas with clarity, precision, and efficiency
... bad graphical displays distort or obscure the data, make it harder
to understand or compare ..."
USA
Today Snapshots
imaginative statistical graphs in
the areas of news, money, sport and life
Baby
Name Wizard
interactive graph of America's name
choices over the last century
throw
dice
Simulate the throwing of dice (choose
from 1 to 5). The total number of spots is found and a bar graph
is drawn.
Create
a Graph
Area, bar, line or pie - use image
in assignments, ...
games
for collecting data
throw
dice
Old
Faithful geyser
Histogram
Explorer
mean
and median
Change the distribution of values
by clicking on a number line. See the effect on the mean and median.
mean
and median
Change the distribution of values
by manipulating the histogram. See the effect on the mean, median and standard
deviation. The method of calculating the standard deviation is demonstrated.
Measures
of
Central Tendency - Introductory Statistics - David W. Stockburger
useful review
of mean, median and mode and the effect of the shape of a distribution
measures
Enter data and view the mean, median,
variance and standard deviation.
Statlets
collection of statistical tools
to display and describe data
pie
chart
Draw pie chart from percentages.
skewed
distribution
Investigate the effect of the median
on the histogram.
linear
regression
Plot up to 50 points. Find
the line of best fit.
statistics
applets - Statistics Concepts and Controversies
interactive java applets for mean/median,
correlation/regression, one variable statistical calculator and two variable
statistical calculator
Chance
and Data in the News
Articles from the Tasmanian daily
newspaper, The Mercury, are organised into six sections - aspects of numeracy
throughout Mathematics and the five areas of the Chance and Data curriculum.
DISCUS
- spreadsheet activities
interactive spreadsheets to learn
about descriptive statistics, probability, binomial distribution, poisson
distribution, continuous distributions, sampling, regression and hypothesis
testing
DISCUSS
- sequel to DISCUS
Discovering Important Statistical
Concepts Using SpreadSheets
Excel
Templates for Statistics
spreadsheets written for the textbook
Complete Business Statistics
Online
Statistics - An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study
textbook including interactive demonstrations,
simulations, case studies, analysis lab - can be downloaded
CAST
Computer-Assisted
Statistics Teaching is a complete course in Introductory Statistics that
can be downloaded and run on a computer. Permission can be sought to use
the software locally with a class.
Exploring
Data - Rex Boggs
statistics resource material for
high school students
Australian
Bureau of Statistics - Notes/Activities
Check out Statistics - A Powerful
Edge, a great text to support student learning in statistics.
Handling
Data Book - CIMT
student text on planning an investigation,
collecting data, representing data and analysing data
Journal
of Statistics Education
articles and data sets
Statistics
and Probability - Projective Interactive
interactive activities for probability,
conditional probability, sampling, expected value, statistics, histograms,
boxplots, normal curve and statistical simulations
Internet
Projects - Introductory Statistics
Each project involves the analysis
of data by simulations, demonstrations and other activities.
Learning
Statistics By Doing Statistics - Gary Smith
twenty projects for introductory
statistics course
learning
resources and sources of problems
Statistics
Resources Page - Sidney Tyrrell
StatSci.org
links (resources, courses, data
sets) related to the teaching of statistics
Winstats
software
statistics
calculations and graphs, theoretical probability distributions, simulations
Ostats
software - Michael Bulmer
simple tool
for data visualisation and analysis, aimed at helping students learn statistics
StatCrunch
data visualisation
and analysis software that runs on a browser - includes full instructions
and data sets