Dr. Alan Reifman's Intro Stats Page

Quantitative Methods I (Human Dev & Family Studies 5349) at Texas Tech University

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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A Sports Application of Statistics by Dr. Reifman

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Dr. Reifman's...

...Faculty Webpage
...Basic Statistics Page
...Practical Statistics Resources
...Research Methods Page

Overall Statistics Pages

U. Baltimore "Statistical Thinking" Page
Stat Pages -- Hundreds of Online Calculators
Visualizing Statistical Concepts
APA Style for Writing Up Statistical Analyses
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
Statsoft Electronic Textbook
Thomson-Wadsworth Statistics Page
"Statistics Idiots Guide" (I don't consider you idiots)
Social Science Statistics Blog
Andy Field's "Statistics Hell" Tutorials
Arthur Benjamin, the Mathemagician...
...Endorses Statistics as Most Useful Tool for Most People

Descriptive Statistics

Mean, Median, & Mode (U. North Texas PowerPoint)
Graphic Illustrating Mean vs. Median
Article on Ordering of the Mean, Median, & Mode in Skewed Distributions
Box Plots
Pathway to Dr. Reifman's Box-Plot Song (Plus Other Stat Songs)
Standard Deviation

Probability

Book of Odds
Pascal's Triangle
How Each Successive Row in Pascal's Triangle Better Approximates the Bell Curve
Binomial Probability Calculator
"n choose k" Calculator
Monty Hall Problem
Probability of Picking Every Game in an NCAA Basketball Bracket Correctly
Gov. Schwarzenegger Message Oddity
Probability Questions Phrased as Sports Examples

Correlation

My Lecture Notes on Correlation from Methods Class
Correlation (Wikipedia)
Correlation Visual (NCTM)
Correlation Visual (Italy)
Guidelines for Small-Medium-Large Correlation
Essay: "On Correlation, r, and r-squared"
Correlation/Range Restriction
Example for Idea of Holding Variable Constant
Formula for Partial Correlation
Spearman Rank-Order Correlation (Non-Parametric)
Summary of Different Rank-Order Correlation Methods

t-test

Arizona State t-test Calculator
Price is Right Game that Illustrates Degrees of Freedom

Chi-Square

Online 2 X 2 Chi-Square Calculator
Brief Explanation of Standardized Residuals
USC Study of Gender in the Film Business (See Footnote 5 and Associated Text)

Practical Resources

SPSS Tutorial (Valparaiso U.)
APA Style for Reporting Stats (Illinois St. U.)

Central Limit Theorem

Interactive Applet (Online Statbook)

Statistical Power

Cape Town, South Africa
Social Research Methods
Statistical Power (Wikipedia)
Russ Lenth's Power/Sample-Size Page
Effect Size Overview
Effect Size (Cohen S-M-L)
Cohen Power Tables
Important Application of Statistical Power
Article on 2009 Mammography Controversy, Discussing False Positives
Blackstone's Statement on False Convictions and False Exonerations

Confidence Intervals, Effect Sizes, and Significance Testing

Calculator: CI Around Sample Correlation r
Geoff Cumming Radio Audio on CI's

Data Sets

General Social Survey (What We're Using Primarily)
"Bowling Alone" Data Set
U. Michigan (ICPSR) Data Archive

Sports and Other Applications

Dr. Reifman's "Hot Hand" Sports Streakiness Page
Dr. Reifman's Volleyball Analysis Page "Volleymetrics"
Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
Sabermetric Research Page
Chance Magazine
"Freakonomics" Blog
Wall Street Journal's "Numbers Guy"

Professional Associations in Statistics

American Statistical Association
American Psychological Association Division on Statistics

Statistics Education Resources (If You Want to Teach)

"CAUSE" Statistics Education Program
Principles of Learning Statistics
Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education

Texas Tech Resources

TTU Syllabus Collection
TTU Academic Calendars
TTU Final Exam Schedules

Miscellaneous

Measure of America (Graphical)
Supermarkets and Fast-Food Outlets -- Interesting Graphical Representations of Statistical Relationships
Central Limit Theorem Demonstration
Gallup Blog Discusses Random Sampling Error

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