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Comprehensive Resources for Teaching Statistics at the University of Glasgow

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Comprehensive Resources for Teaching Statistics at the University of Glasgow

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  1. Resources for Teaching Statisticshttp://mathstore.gla.ac.uk/csstat Ewan Crawfordewan@stats.gla.ac.ukLTSN Maths, Stats & OR NetworkUniversity of Glasgow

  2. Spiders & Peer review • Google • Web-crawled • Google Directory • Editors • LTSN • Peer reviewed, for L&T • RDN • UK Academic Google

  3. Categories • Dataset sources • Java applets & tools • News sources • Papers • Glossaries • R

  4. Dataset sources • DASLThe data and story library [LTSN Review] • UK Data Archive • NesStar LightUK Data archive [LTSN Review] • random.orgTrue random number service • Office for national statisticsUK Government statistics • CensusAtSchool Data and worksheet generator More …

  5. Topics • Multiple Regression with Ren and Stimpy • Chi-square • Lines, Outliers and Pairs (of points), Oh My! • Using Jelly Beans to Investigate Sampling Without Replacement and more More …

  6. Java applets • Webster West’s applets • Normal distribution • Mean demo • Standard deviation demo • More … • CAST(8084) • Probability by surprise • Probability/Statistics Object Library • More … More … And more …

  7. Other packages • STEPS • Consortium of UK Universities • Still commonly used, still works! • Minitab • Avoids Excel bugs • Can look back over method • On-line FAQs • JiscMail mailing list • ActivStats • Course for Minitab • Course for Excel More …

  8. News sources • Mailing listsJISCMAIL Maths & Stats Section • Allstat • Bugs • Minitab • LTSN • Mathstore • Syndication in progress • RDN • SOSIG • Google News(crawled) • Royal Statistical Society(& other societies) More …

  9. Sources for papers, articles • SERJ • First internet based • May be down today • Teaching Statistics • Statistics in Medicine • LTSN Mathstore More …

  10. Glossaries, on-line textbooks • STEPS Glossary • A Glossary of statistics More … • SurfStat • CAST More …

  11. R • R-Project • A GNU project • ‘S like’ • Contributed packages (source code download page) • LTSN Producing a Java graphics package • DSC2003 • Using R behind Excel • Election night

  12. General • StatSci, Gordon Smyth • Statistics.com • Gary C. Ramseyer’s First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes More …

  13. Future • Interoperability & XML • Descriptions of Learning Objects available • Learning objects available (e.g. case studies, datasets, MCQs) • RSS feeds of news & syndication • Scotsman, BBC – harvested from • LTSN & RDN – harvest from and export to • Data will be available in XML feeds from various websites • NesStar

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