RMU STAT2110 - Week 2

Here are some resources that could be useful.

My short overview lectures about the topics for this week:

• Visual Descriptive Statistics
  • Graphs and charts
  • Recognizing patterns
• Numeric Descriptive Statistics
  • Mean, Median, and Mode
  • Variance and Standard Deviation
  • Percentiles and the Inter-Quartile Range

• Using Technology
  • Using StatCrunch (video)
  • Using Excel Data Analysis (video) ... note - Excel has not made Data Analysis available to Macintosh users.
• Calculating the mean, median, and mode
  • Calculations using StatCrunch (video)
  • Calculations using Excel Data Analysis (video)
• Calculating the standard deviation, including an introduction to StatCrunch and to the Excel Data Analysis add-in
  • Calculating the range (video)
  • Calculations using StatCrunch (video)
  • Calculations using Excel Data Analysis, including loading the add-in (video)
  • Interpretation of the range and standard deviation (video)
• Histogram for a discrete distribution
  • Probability histogram (video)
  • Mean (video)
  • Variance and standard deviation (video)

Other of my lectures:

• Numeric descriptives (from a different class)
• The Empirical Rule and probability (from a different class)
• Numeric examples
  • Examples using OpenOffice Calc and using StatCrunch (older versions of OpenOffice Calc and StatCrunch)
  • Examples using Excel (older version of Excel)
• A life expectancy example (I made these with an old version of Excel, but the method is still the same)
  • Excel - Numeric Descriptives
  • StatCrunch - Box Plot

From Khan Academy (each section has multiple lecture videos and practice exercises):

• Probability and Statistics
  • Descriptive statistics

From Campusmath.com (each section has multiple videos):

• High School - Statistics
  • Data Description (descriptive statistics)