A song for use in helping students to recognize, in context, the idea of ANOVA as comparing variance between groups to variance within groups. Music & Lyrics © 2016 by Monty Harper. This song is part of an NSF-funded library of interactive songs that involved students creating responses to prompts that are then included in the lyrics (see www.causeweb.org/smiles for the interactive version of the song, a short reading covering the topic, and an assessment item).
A song for use in helping students to understand that standard error changes with the square root of the sample size. Music & Lyrics by Tom Toce, © 2015 Retrograde Music. This song is part of an NSF-funded library of interactive songs that involved students creating responses to prompts that are then included in the lyrics (see www.causeweb.org/smiles for the interactive version of the song, a short reading covering the topic, and an assessment item).
A song for use in helping students to apply relationships among alpha, p-value, and the decision of a hypothesis test. Music & Lyrics © 2015 by Lawrence M. Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso. This song is part of an NSF-funded library of interactive songs that involved students creating responses to prompts that are then included in the lyrics (see www.causeweb.org/smiles for the interactive version of the song, a short reading covering the topic, and an assessment item).
A joke to use in talking about how simulation might aid in learning statistical inference. The joke was written in April 2018 by Dennis Pearl from Penn State University with editorial help from Larry Lesser from University of Texas at El Paso.
A joke to start a discussion on joint probability distributions. The joke was written in 2018 by Larry Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso.
"There are a lot of small data problems that occur in big data. They don't disappear because you've got lots of stuff. They get worse." is a quote by British biostatistician David J. Spiegelhalter (1953 - ). The quote may be found in a March 28, 2014 article in the Financial Times written by Tim Hartford entitled "Big data: are we making a big mistake?"
A joke to aid in discussing probability density functions for continuous random variables. The joke was written in 2016 by Judah Lesser an AP statistics student from El Paso, Texas.
A pun to aid in discussing Stirling's approximation. The joke was written by Larry Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso in January 2018.
A song to help with discussion of the history of William Sealy Gosset's (a.k.a. Student) result about the t-distribution for modeling standardized means. The lyrics were written by Lawrence Mark Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso in 2017 and may be sung to the tune of Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tizle's 1908 standard "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
A joke to be used in describing how a marginal density is computed from a joint density. The joke was written in 2017 by Larry Lesser (The University of Texas at El Paso) and Dennis Pearl (Penn State University).