Useful Resource Links for MATH 155 Modern Statistics with Computer Analysis

TABLES for z and t:

    Table III Normal Curve Areas (z)

    Table IV Critical Values of t

    Applet to Compare z and t Distributions

    Table II Binomial Probabilities

HELP WITH MINITAB:

    MINITAB TUTORIAL by T. Zgonc, M. Newton, & K. Kim at Thiel College, 2007

    A very nice introduction to Minitab in 19 lessons. 

STATISTICS WITH EXCEL

    An Excel Tutorial

    A free module introducing descriptive statistics

    BASIC STATISTICS IN EXCEL - Smart Module

    Instructions for producing histograms in Excel

    A Collection of Excel Workbooks for Statistical Analysis

HISTOGRAMS:

    An applet for exploring the results of  using different bin widths

    http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/Histogram.html

STEM AND LEAF PLOTS:

    http://www.purplemath.com/modules/stemleaf2.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemplot

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS:

    http://business.clayton.edu/arjomand/business/l3.html

       http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras/jsm/NormalDensity/NormalDensity.html

    TI Calculator Applications of the Normal Distribution

    An Applet by Gary H. McClelland for Finding Normal Probabilities

PROBABILITY:

    A Probability Tutorial (http://people.hofstra.edu/Stefan_Waner/tutorialsf2/unit6_2.html)

    A Probability Spinner  (http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=79)

    Rolling Dice Simulation (http://www.math.csusb.edu/faculty/stanton/m262/intro_prob_models/intro_prob_models.html)

    Another Rolling Dice Simulation (http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/doingscience/flash/dice.html)

HYPOTHESIS TESTING:

    A Hypothesis Testing Handout By A. Robertson at Colgate

GENERAL INTEREST:

        An On-Line Statistics Text  (David Lane)

     "If It Moves, Measure It! Basic Business Statistics Explained", By Lyndsay Swinton