Additional Resources for STAT 7030

Review material

Lecture Notes

Maple and Minitab files

Review problems and solutions

Theoretical resources on WWW

Data Sources

 

Review material

o       Formula sheet: basic probability properties. Most common probability distributions and their mean, variances and MGF. Linear combination of independent random variables and results related to random samples.

o       TI 83 commands for probability and statistics. Commands for finding confidence intervals added.

o       Hypothesis testing for proportions, means and variances.

o       Exponentials and logarithms and their basic properties.

o       A useful site with plenty of formula sheets. (Professor’s Paul Dawkins at Lamar University)

 

Notes and Maple or Minitab files

o       Minitab session Jan 8: comparing two populations means; testing equality of two population variances.

o       Notes on designing experiments (Jan 22)

o       Maple file on computations regarding the bivariate normal distribution. Notes on the computations.(March 12)

o       Maple file on bivariate normal distribution generating bivariate normal data.

o       The distribution of sample correlation coefficient in bivariate normal data through simulations.

 

 

 

Resources on the WWW

o       The Probability Web contains links to online texts and tutorials, applets, and other resources. 

o       Introduction to Probability by Laurie Snell (pdf file)

o       The Mathematical Atlas: Statistics rich collection of sites, tutorials and applications of statistics.

o       Engineering Statistics Handbook

o       Minitab online resources

o       The most complete online resource on the life and work of Sir Francis Galton

o       CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library: wonderful resource for thousands of scientific articles (lots of them in statistics)

o       A useful site with plenty of formula sheets. (Professor’s Paul Dawkins at Lamar University)

o       A plot of the density of the bivariate normal distribution neat site with animation

 

Statistics articles on the WWW

o       Journal of Statistics Education

o       Oil and Gas on Indian Reservations: Statistical Methods Help to Establish Value for Royalty Purposes in Journal of Statistics Education

o       NASCAR Winston Cup Race Results for 1975-2003 in Journal of Statistics Education

o       Pig Data and Bayesian Inference on Multinomial Probabilities in Journal of Statistics Education

o       TV Viewing and Physical Activity Are Independently Associated with Metabolic Risk in Children: The European Youth Heart Study in PloS Medicine (Public Library of Science)

o       Statisical study: The Contribution of Medication Use to Recent Trends in Old-Age Functioning.

o       Interesting article on Goodness of fit test

o       The Regression Fallacy about Galton’s study on height of parents and children

 

 

 

Data Sources

Sports 

Robin Lock’s sports data page

NBA

NFL

Doug’s NBA Statistics

NHL

The Sports Network

 

Government Sources

FEDStats

Census Bureau

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Bureau of Justice Statistics

USDA Economics and Statistics System at Cornell University

The Gallup Poll page