STAT 140

Introduction to Statistics

Spring 2009

Last updated Monday, July 20, 2009

Essential information:

Instructor: Dr. Julie Clark Office: Dana 105 Office Phone: - 6524

Office Hours: 10:30 - 11:20 Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays,

1:30-2:30 Mondays, and Thursdays,

and by appointment and by chance.

E-mail: jclark@hollins.edu

Course Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:30-12:30

Location: DANA 111

Minitab

Applets:

Rossman/Chance Applet Collection for Workshop Statistics:

Other Applets:

Regression – see the effects of adding an outlier

Drawing the Regression line by Eye

Guessing Correlations

Histograms – see how changes in the widths affect the histogram

Normal Tables

Central Limit Theorem

Pass The Pigs

Some Data Sites:

	Data and Story Library in StatLib (DASL)
	Real Time Statistics
	U.S. Census Bureau Fact Finder
	CHANCE Project data sets
	Journal of Statistics Education Data Archive
	University of Michigan Document Center (Statistical Resources on the Web)
	U.S. Data (Crime, Labor, Transportation, Health, Education, Demographics)
	Pew Research Center Datasets
	Sports Data Surfing
	Data Surfing
	Australian Data and Story Library (OzDASL)
	General Social Survey
	Data on the Net
	StatLib - Datasets Archive
	UCLA Statistics Data sets

Other Stats Links:

Statistics Every Writer Should Know

Minitab Resource Web Site

On-line Statistical Calculations

Stagraphics

Statistiscope – one page univariate stat package done by Mikael Bonnier, Lund, Sweden

Class Pictures

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