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Statistics 110: Introduction to Probability - Download free content from Harvard Univer... - 0 views

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This is the complete set of lectures online as a downloadable podcast in itunes Statistics 110 (Introduction to Probability), taught at Harvard University by Joe Blitzstein in Fall 2011. Lecture videos, homework, review material, practice exams, and a large collection of practice problems with detailed solutions are provided. This course is an introduction to probability as a language and set of tools for understanding statistics, science, risk, and randomness. The ideas and methods are useful in statistics, science, philosophy, engineering, economics, finance, and everyday life. Topics include the following. Basics: sample spaces and events, conditional probability, Bayes' Theorem. Random variables and their distributions: cumulative distribution functions, moment generating functions, expectation, variance, covariance, correlation, conditional expectation. Univariate distributions: Normal, t, Binomial, Negative Binomial, Poisson, Beta, Gamma. Multivariate distributions: joint, conditional, and marginal distributions, independence, transformations, Multinomial, Multivariate Normal. Limit theorems: law of large numbers, central limit theorem. Markov chains: transition probabilities, stationary distributions, reversibility, convergence.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is the complete set of lectures online as a downloadable podcast in itunes Statistics 110 (Introduction to Probability), taught at Harvard University by Joe Blitzstein in Fall 2011. Lecture videos, homework, review material, practice exams, and a large collection of practice problems with detailed solutions are provided. This course is an introduction to probability as a language and set of tools for understanding statistics, science, risk, and randomness. The ideas and methods are useful in statistics, science, philosophy, engineering, economics, finance, and everyday life. Topics include the following. Basics: sample spaces and events, conditional probability, Bayes' Theorem. Random variables and their distributions: cumulative distribution functions, moment generating functions, expectation, variance, covariance, correlation, conditional expectation. Univariate distributions: Normal, t, Binomial, Negative Binomial, Poisson, Beta, Gamma. Multivariate distributions: joint, conditional, and marginal distributions, independence, transformations, Multinomial, Multivariate Normal. Limit theorems: law of large numbers, central limit theorem. Markov chains: transition probabilities, stationary distributions, reversibility, convergence.</div>

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K-12 Statistics Education Webinars | American Statistical Association - 0 views

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ASA has many recorded K-12 statistics education webinars (soon to be 23) freely available to watch online. Most run about an hour.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">ASA has many recorded K-12 statistics education webinars (soon to be 23) freely available to watch online. Most run about an hour.</div>

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Statistics Quotes and Sayings - 4 views

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The Quote Garden -- statistical in this case.

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Statistical Probability That Mitt Romney's New Twitter Followers Are Just Normal Users:... - 0 views

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It is virtually impossible that the former governor's recent spike in Twitter followers resulted from normal activity on the social network.
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According to a random sample of 1000 followers from the candidates' accounts, 26.9% of Romney's 150,000 newest followers had fewer than 2 followers. For other accounts of similar size, only 9.6% of new followers had less than 2 followers themselves. The median number of followers for Romney's new followers was 5, whereas the median for the comparison group was 27. This represents a stark, and statistically significant difference.
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The Romney camp has denied buying the followers. Based on the results above, the one thing that we can be fairly sure of, however, is that someone did.
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Teaching Statistics - Wiley Online Library - 0 views

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Back issues of Teaching Statistics international journal.

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Learning (by) Teaching: Inferential statistics - main ideas - 0 views

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State the State - Google Docs - 1 views

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Another cool statistics project idea

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Walk the Line - Google Docs - 2 views

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Teaching Statistics: How I did SBG in AP Stat - 2 views

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excellent post about how to get started with standards based grading in statistics.

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HyperStat Online: An Introductory Statistics Textbook and Online Tutorial for Help in S... - 2 views

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Ben Greenman's Graphs About Charts and Charts About Graphs. - 1 views

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STATS: We Check Out the Numbers Behind the News - 0 views

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Checking and commenting on the use of statistics in the media.

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excellent collection of 2-minute tutorials in R, a free, open source incredibly powerful statistical software package.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">excellent collection of 2-minute tutorials in R, a free, open source incredibly powerful statistical software package. </div>

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Garfield's Comic Strip -- Statistical Sampling - 1 views

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Fathom® Dynamic Data: Fathom Resource Center - Key Curriculum Press - 3 views

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Key Curriculum Press site for Fathom classroom activities. Not just for statistics-- stuff for ALL courses.

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APS officials want erasure analysis thrown out | www.wsbtv.com - 0 views

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The lawyer for four high-ranking Atlanta Public Schools officials told Channel 2 Action News he will ask a judge to throw out an erasure analysis that is key to many of the allegations against his clients in the CRCT cheating scandal.
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Lawson told Winne regarding the 2009 and 2010 CRCT erasure analysis ordered by the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement, “it’s not sound, scientifically and statistically.”
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See the part on Benford's Law, a very interesting idea in statistics.

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Modern Algorithms Crack 18th Century Secret Code | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views

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Computer scientists from Sweden and the United States have applied modern-day, statistical translation techniques — the sort of which are used in Google Translate — to decode a 250-year-old secret message.
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Is forensic evidence trustworthy? - Boing Boing - 0 views

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Science in fiction affects our ability to understand science in real life.
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Even ideas you think you can trust implicitly—like fingerprint evidence—turn out to have serious flaws that are seriously under-appreciated by cops, lawyers, judges, and juries.
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Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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If you could "fix" or re-direct math education, what would you do? IMO, Arthur Benjamin NAILS it in this brief 3ish minute video.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">If you could "fix" or re-direct math education, what would you do? IMO, Arthur Benjamin NAILS it in this brief 3ish minute video.</div>

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