http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--Home.php CAUSEweb.org RSS Feed.(CAUSE: Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education) http://www.causeweb.org/images/logo.jpg http://www.causeweb.org/ 144 40 CAUSEweb.org en-us editor@causeweb.org webmaster@causeweb.org Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1816 "Hiawatha Designs an Experiment" is a poem by English statistician Sir Maurice George Kendall (1907 - 1983). The poem can be used in teaching about the trade-off between reliability and bias found in many inference problems and in designing experiments and interpreting the results of an ANOVA. The poem was originally published in The American Statistician December, 1959. 2008-04-16 14:25:57 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1815 "Statistics are the heart of democracy." A quote by American editorial page essayist Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948). The quote appeared in Strunsky's New York Times "Topics of the Times" article on November 30, 1944. Quote also found in Statistically Speaking - a Dictionary of Quotations compiled by Carl Gaither and Alma Cavazos-Gaither p. 119. 2008-04-16 08:54:02 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1814 "Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one," a quote by French Philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1778), more commonly known by his pen name Voltaire. The quote appeared in a letter to Frederick II of Prussia in 1767. 2008-04-15 18:09:37 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1813 Song advocating a preference for Bayesian inferential procedures. May sing to the tune of Neil Diamond's 1966 song "I'm a Believer" made popular by the Monkees. Lyrics by Bradley Carlin (2002). Free to use for non-commercial educational purposes. Contact author to use in publications or for commercial purposes. Accompanying musical track was recorded Sunday September 16, 2002. The lyrics were written by Brad for the Valencia 7 conference, Tenerife, Spain, June 2002;and was first performed there by the Bayesian Band (Brad Carlin, Mark Glickman, and David Heckerman). The lyrics may be found in volume 37, issue 1 of IMS Bulletin and in the Bayesian Songbook (www.biostat.umn.edu/~brad/cabaret.html). 2008-04-15 15:19:51 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1812 Song about bootstrap resampling methods and their history. May be sung to the tune of Don McLean's 1971 song "American Pie." Lyrics by Giles Hooker (May, 2004). This song is part of the Stanford Statistics Songbook found at www.bscb.cornell.edu/~hooker/StanfordStatisticsSongbook.pdfFree to use for non-commercial educational purposes. Contact author to use in publications or for commercial purposes. 2008-04-03 11:49:51 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1811 Song about the difficulty of graduate courses in statistics ad probability. May be sung to the tune of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's 1968 song "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da." Lyrics by Armin Swartzman and Matthew Finkelman (December, 2003). This song is part of the Stanford Statistics Songbook found at www.bscb.cornell.edu/~hooker/StanfordStatisticsSongbook.pdfFree to use for non-commercial educational purposes. Contact author to use in publications or for commercial purposes. 2008-04-03 11:41:40 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1810 Song about the need to show a significant result in order to have a manuscript published. May be sung to the tune of Robert Feldman, Gerald Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer's 1963 song "My Boyfriend's Back," popularized by The Angels. Lyrics by Marc Coram and Matthew Finkelman (December, 2003). This song is part of the Stanford Statistics Songbook found at www.bscb.cornell.edu/~hooker/StanfordStatisticsSongbook.pdfFree to use for non-commercial educational purposes. Contact author to use in publications or for commercial purposes. 2008-04-03 11:32:45 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1809 Song about the pleasure of teaching statistics when the class is engaged. May be sung to the tune of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's 1963 song "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Lyrics by Armin Schwartzman (December, 2003). This song is part of the Stanford Statistics Songbook found at www.bscb.cornell.edu/~hooker/StanfordStatisticsSongbook.pdfFree to use for non-commercial educational purposes. Contact author to use in publications or for commercial purposes. 2008-04-03 11:24:33 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1808 Song covering a variety of statistical topics. May be sung to the tune of John Lennon's 1969 song "Give Peace a Chance." Lyrics by Armin Schwartzman (December, 2003). This song is part of the Stanford Statistics Songbook found at www.bscb.cornell.edu/~hooker/StanfordStatisticsSongbook.pdfFree to use for non-commercial educational purposes. Contact author to use in publications or for commercial purposes. 2008-04-03 11:18:18 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1807 Song about the benefits of the Bayesian approach to statistics. May be sung to the tune of Sonny and Cher's 1965 song "I Got You Babe." Lyrics by Matthew Finkelman (December, 2003). This song is part of the Stanford Statistics Songbook found at www.bscb.cornell.edu/~hooker/StanfordStatisticsSongbook.pdfFree to use for non-commercial educational purposes. Contact author to use in publications or for commercial purposes. 2008-04-03 11:05:10 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1806 A joke about the tendency for Math and Statistics textbooks to have an abundance of homework style problems. 2008-04-03 10:47:52 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1805 A cartoon to teach about the value of confidence intervals compared with just giving a point estimate. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. 2008-04-01 11:06:58 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1804 A cartoon to teach the idea that patterns will appear in data if you observe enough data at random. The cartoon plays on the famous "million monkeys typing Shakespeare" problem. Extensions of that problem have many applications. For example, allowing for random letters to be randomly changed and then fixed when they agree with the desired text have applications to modeling molecular evolution. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. 2008-03-28 16:37:55 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1803 A cartoon to teach about one difficulty in conducting medical research compared to education research arising from problems in obtaining informed consent from subjects. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. 2008-03-28 16:23:56 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1802 A cartoon to teach about one difficulty in conducting education research arising from problems in obtaining reliable and valid endpoints. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. 2008-03-28 16:20:53 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1801 A cartoon to teach about the interpretation of confidence statements. The cartoon plays on the idea of what would happen if the same process was repeated over-and-over again. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. 2008-03-28 16:14:54 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1800 A cartoon to teach about the need for statistical techniques in drawing out the salient features in massive data sets. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. 2008-03-28 16:08:47 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1796 Statistic Acrostic is a poem by statistics educator Lawrence Mark Lesser and biostatistician Dennis K. Pearl that covers several statistical concepts using only 26 words (one starting with each letter of the alphabet). 2008-02-08 17:12:35 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1795 IQR in a Box is a video that provides a fun rendition of the use of IQR to describe variability and boxplots to describe distributions.Credits: Concept, director, lyrics by Allison Lind, props by Maria Nunez, cinematography by Kristen Jaderlrab, and vocals by Ashok Krishnan, Avi Hakim, and Michelled Dominguez. The video is a parody of a famous Saturday Night Live musical skit by Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake. (Note: because of the nature of the original Saturday Night Live skit, this video may be more appropriate for use in a club or end-of-term party rather than a classroom setting.)The video was produced in 2007 for Marie Diener-West's course in biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University . 2008-02-03 15:07:37 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1794 Statz 4 Life is a video that provides a fun review of statistical inference topics (for example, the theme of examining observed differences in the numerator and error in the denominator). The video was first shown on May 18, 2006 in Chuck Tate's research methods course, while he was a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oregon.The rappers are (in order of appearance): Jeph Loucks, Chuck Tate, Chelan Weaver, and Cara Lewis. Jennifer Simonds provides the singing talent. Credits: Concept, lyrics, and cinematography by Chuck Tate, audio mixing by Jeph Loucks, and video editing by Chuck Tate and Jeph Loucks. The background beat is Nelly's song "Grillz," of which this video is a parody. 2008-02-01 17:21:43 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1793 This FLASH based applet illustrates the sampling distribution of the mean. This applet allows the user to pick a population from over 2000 pre-defined populations. The user can then choose size of the random sample to select. The applet can produce random samples in one, 10, 100, or 1000 at a time. The resulting means are illustrated on a histogram. The histogram has an outline of the normal distribution and vertical lines at 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations. The applet can be viewed at the original site or downloaded to the instructors machine. 2008-01-26 17:00:45 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1791 This poem, by North Carolina State University Emeritus Professor of Physics Jasper D. Memory (1935 - ) is designed to teach the difference between the probability of having a disease given a positive screening test and the probability of a positive test result given you have the disease. The poem was published in the October, 2007 issue of Mathematics Magazine volume 80 p. 273, 2008-01-19 20:09:59 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1790 A cartoon that can be used in teaching about pie charts. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. 2008-01-08 08:26:02 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1788 A cartoon that can be used in teaching about summary statistics. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. 2008-01-08 08:18:20 http://www.causeweb.org/cwis/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=1789 A cartoon that can be used in teaching about the efficiency of using simulation in statistics. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. 2008-01-08 08:16:15