SUMMARY AND LINKS FOR THIS TALK:
This talk will discuss and illustrate several strategies for using technologies in introductory statistics courses. The strategies may be found useful in more advanced courses as well. We will proceed from the more traditional uses of technology to the modern.
Traditional
use of statistical software, including data disk. Crime
Rates in the United States
Extending
the software with macros for statistical analysis. Specialty
Distribution of U.S. Physicians
Extending
the software with macros for simulations. Borel's
Law of Large Numbers
Using
the Internet to integrate text and software. Fat
Consumption and Prostate Cancer
Using
the net to access information services, data sets, and other resources. Journal
of Statistical Education Information Service
Using
the net to access information services, data sets, and other resources. Minitab's
Home Page
Posting
information on the Web for students to access (e.g., syllabi, homework,
solutions to problems); using email to have discussions, post information,
and ask/answer questions; and Adobe Acrobat. Probability
Course Home Page
Getting
things from FTP sites. Selected
MINITAB Macros (Archive)
CLT
(clt.mac), correlation (correl.mac), and significance level (siglevel.mac).
Selected MINITAB Macros (To Run)
Interactive books and supplements
providing virtual statistics laboratories, e.g., Siegrist's Interactive
Probability and Velleman's
ActivStats
Formats for web documents:
HTML and PDF
A quick look at:
JAVA applets and VRML