resources

• wikipedia articles
  • standard deviation
  • normal distribution
  • hypothesis testing
• web tools
  • statistics and plotting from csbsju.edu
    (a nice set of explanations and web applications)
  • SISA - Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis
  • VassarStats - Utilities/StattisticalTablesCalculator
• software
  • OpenOffice.org - open source spreadsheet
  • R - command line professional statistics
• online texts and tutorials
  • Case Studies in Medicine
  • SticiGui online text
  • The Chance Project at Dartmouth
  • Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
  • an Excel tutorial from URI.
• Jim's Fall 2003 and Spring 2005 course web sites

• Case Studies
  • various that Jim found online
    • PCBs and fetal death
    • Can we tell when someone is staring at us?
    • chance in the news
  • Todd
    • climate change
    • leptin and appetite
  • Seth
    • fertility in china
  • Travis and Sarah
    • wikipedia: low birth weight paradox (an example of Simpson's Paradox)