Reference Topics

Reference Topics 14-3

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This site is a glossary of statistical terms:
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm

This excellent site presents a tutorial over several measures of dispersion: range, percentile scores, quartile scores, variance, standard deviation, and z-scores.
http://simon.cs.vt.edu/SoSci/converted/Dispersion_I/activity.html… See the whole entry

Reference Topics 14-2

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This site is a glossary of statistical terms:
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm

This site provides some practice with the mean:
http://www.robertniles.com/stats/mean.shtml

This site provides some practice with the median:
http://www.robertniles.com/stats/median.shtml

This interactive site calculates the mean, median, and mode for a data set.… See the whole entry

Reference Topics 14-1

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This site is a glossary of statistical terms:
http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/stark/SticiGui/Text/gloss.htm

This interactive site will help you construct histograms.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/histogram/index.html

Stem-and-leaf plot discussion.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/discussions/steml.html

The title of this site describes what it is about: “Statistics Every Writer Should Know.”
http://robertniles.com/stats/

If you … See the whole entry

Reference Topics 13-6

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Here is a statement of the binomial theorem (with links):
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BinomialTheorem.html

This link gives some examples of the binomial theorem:
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/binomial.htm

This site provides a summary of the binomial distribution.
http://www.stat.yale.edu/Courses/1997-98/101/binom.htm

This site calculates the binomial probabilities.
http://stattrek.com/online-calculator/binomial.aspx… See the whole entry

Reference Topic 13-3

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This site (which may too advanced) discusses odds for real world games
http://wizardofodds.com/

This site discusses the odds of gambling:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gamble/odds/

This site discusses conditional probability and then goes beyond the text’s discussion and discusses Bayes’ Rule.
http://www.stattrek.com/probability/bayes-theorem.aspx… See the whole entry

Reference Topics 13-1

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This site discussing using tables to represent data.
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/discussions/pd6.html

You can explore Example 9 by playing with this interactive site called The Monty Hall Dilemma:
https://math.andyou.com/tools/montyhallsimulator/montysim.htm

There is an introduction to probability at this excellent site:
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.prob.intro.html

Here is an … See the whole entry