GSE Stat Methods II: Topic resources

Course text: Moore, D. S., McCabe, G. P., & Craig, B. A. (2009). Introduction to the practice of statistics (6th ed). New York: W. H. Freeman.

Resources are listed by topic, in chronological order according to presentation in the course. For each topic, the corresponding section in the text is followed by a list of supplemental resources.

Topic resources are elements of the following:

• Statistics, a course offering from Open Learning Initiative (OLI), sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University
• Collaborative Statistics, by Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D. and Susan Dean, included in the Connexions repository, sponsored by Rice University
• SurfStat

Introduction to inference

Confidence interval; Significance tests; Power; Type I error; Type II error

Text: sections 6.1-6.4, pp. 353-410

Inference for the mean of a population

Text: section 7.1, pp. 417-433

One sample t-test

• OLI Statistics: Hypothesis testing for the population mean
  • Screens 1-5 when sigma is known
  • Screens 6-9 when sigma is unknown
• SurfStat: Discussion of t-test begins at the bottom of the page titled One continuous variable and continues on the following page

Matched pairs t-test

• OLI Statistics: The matched pairs t-test is a two sample test using a one-sample method
• Collaborative Statistics: Matched or Paired Samples offers three examples illustrating in what instances to use the method.