Course Resources (text, lectures, links, etc.)

Syllabus

Syllabus as a pdf file

Chapter 1 -Introduction

Chapter 2 - Descriptive Statistics (Includes Appendix/Empirical Rule)

Chapter 3 - Correlation

Collecting Data

Probability

Chapter 5 - Binomial Distribution

Chapter 6 Normal Distribution

Chapter 7 - Central Limit Theorem

Inferential Statistics for means

Chapter 8 - Introduction to Statistical Inference and the One Sample z-test

Chapter 9 - One Sample t-test

Chapter 10 -Two Sample t-test

Chapter 11 Matched Pairs t-test

Chapter 14 - ANOVA (three or more means)

Two Way ANOVA (factorial)

Inferential Statistics for proportions

One Proportion z-test

Chapter 13 - Two Proportion z-test

Chi-Square Test of Independence

Correlation and Simple Linear Regression

Chapter

Data Visualization

 

Online Texts

1.      The http://onlinestatbook.com/index.html text/website is an online statistics text by David Lane and others at Rice University.  In addition text, the site includes simulations, demonstrations, test-yourself questions, and a multimedia PowerPoint/video presentation.  You can download the text and the multimedia.

2.      The http://www.seeingstatistics.com/ text/website has many interactive features.

3.      Collaborative Statistics (updated 2008) by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean.  The course website has a link to a pdf file with the entire text.  We will not read the entire text so print the entire document only if you find that this text is particularly  suited to your learning style.  You may find it easier to navigate through the text by visiting http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/.  The http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/ website also includes content you can cut-and-paste (in the event that you want to print portions of the text).  

4.      The http://www.cmu.edu/oli/index.shtml text/website is the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie-Mellon University.  Click on “Look inside OLI statistics” to access the OLI statistics text.

  

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