Math (Prof. Frank ONLY)

Module 3 - Background

Frequency Distributions

You can download the full, digital version of a statistics book using the link below. (Version in PDF, on the left side)

Lane, D. M.  (n.d.). Online Statistics Education: A multimedia course of study. Retrieved from http://onlinestatbook.com/2/index.html

Required Materials

Digital Readings

Read sections B–D and Exercise H from

Lane, D. M. (n.d.). Online Statistics Education: Summarizing distributions. Retrieved from http://onlinestatbook.com/2/summarizing_distributions/summarizing_distributions.html

Read section I (Distributions)

Lane, D. M., & Ziemer, H. (n.d.). Online Statistics Education: Introduction. Retrieved from http://onlinestatbook.com/2/introduction/introduction.html

Videos and Exercises

Using the websites below, watch the videos and complete the practice exercises for the topics in BOLD:

Khan Academy. (2014). Descriptive statistics. Retrieved from https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/descriptive-statistics

· Variance and standard deviation (12 videos, 4 practice exercises, 2 simulations)

Khan Academy. (2014). Inferential statistics. Retrieved from https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/statistics-inferential

· Normal distribution (7 videos, 4 practice exercises)

Normal Distributions

Organizing and Describing Data

Graphs           

Measures of Variability       

Measures of Position          

Optional

SUNY- Oswego. (n.d.). The standard normal distribution. Retrieved from http://www.oswego.edu/~srp/stats/z.htm