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Resources for Siegel and Morgan text

Minitab Guide to accompany Siegel and Morgan, Statistics and Data Analysis: An Introduction

Data sets to accompany Siegel and Morgan, Statistics and Data Analysis: An Introduction (See note below.)

The datasets were zipped into a single file on an IBM PC. There are far more datasets in the zip file than were on the disk that came with the text. Many were typed in by PSC students and faculty when we were using the first edition of the text. Most are for use with Minitab, Versions 8 through 12. They may not work with Versions 13 or 14.

Papers I've given or published on statistics education

"Don't Just Teach Exploratory Techniques: Use Them" " presented at the Beyond the Formula Statistics Conference in Rochester, NY, August 2001.

"Planning a Statistical Literacy Program at the College Level: Musings and a Bibliography" presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto, August 2004.

"Advice to Mathematics Teachers on Evaluating Introductory Statistics Textbooks"

This is a chapter from the volume Teaching Statistics: Resources for Undergraduate Instructors, edited by Thomas Moore and published in the MAA Notes series by the Mathematical Association of America in 2000. I highly recommend the entire collection. You can buy a copy at the MAA website. Select "Bookstore", then "MAA Notes", then scroll down to the title.

Making an Unbiased Estimate of the Standard Deviation of a Population That Is Distributed Normally

Other Resources

Using the R software in an introductory statistics course.

Examples for teaching paired vs. independent samples.

Answers for above examples for teaching paired vs. independent samples.

Using Minitab to analyze paired or independent sample data.

Using transformations on a single variable.