Resource Library

Statistical Topic

Advanced Search | Displaying 1851 - 1860 of 2221
  • This web page contains concise historical information from the Census Bureau in either pdf or Excel format.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This data archive contains data sets divided into the following categories: Astronomy, Biology, Education, Geography, Social Sciences, Sports, Transportation, Weather, and Miscellaneous. The datasets can be viewed as an html page or downloaded into Excel spreadsheets.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This article discusses a project-based approach to teaching statistics. An appendix contains a list of 20 projects that have been successfully assigned.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This course features a full set of lecture notes and problem sets introducing students to the modeling, quantification, and analysis of uncertainty. Topics covered include: formulation and solution in sample space, random variables, transform techniques, simple random processes and their probability distributions, Markov processes, limit theorems, and elements of statistical inference.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This course in Statistical Mechanics features problem sets and exams. Basic principles examined include: the laws of thermodynamics and the concepts of temperature, work, heat, and entropy; postulates of classical statistical mechanics, microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical distributions; applications to lattice vibrations, ideal gas, photon gas; quantum statistical mechanics; Fermi and Bose systems; and interacting systems: cluster expansions, van der Waal's gas, and mean-field theory.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This course is second in the series of undergraduate Statistical Physics courses and features comprehensive lecture notes and assignments. Course topics include probability distributions for classical and quantum systems; microcanonical, canonical, and grand canonical partition-functions and associated thermodynamic potentials; conditions of thermodynamic equilibrium for homogeneous and heterogeneous systems; non-interacting Bose and Fermi gases; mean field theories for real gases, binary mixtures, magnetic systems, polymer solutions; phase and reaction equilibria, critical phenomena; fluctuations, correlation functions and susceptibilities, and Kubo formulae; evolution of distribution functions: Boltzmann and Smoluchowski equations.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This article contains practical information on teaching statistics to a political science class.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This page contains a short article on Simpson's Paradox with an example of how standardizing changes the results. It also contains links to other articles on Simpson's Paradox, including a newspaper article illustrating that this topic is timely.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This page contains information and links about statistical literacy. Some links are to textbooks, online articles, resources, and information about upcoming events.
    0
    No votes yet
  • This page discusses disadvantages of large datasets with regard to Simpson's Paradox.
    0
    No votes yet

Pages

register