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Official Website from the Publisher (Key Curriculum Press)

http://www.keypress.com/catalog/products/software/Prod_Fathom.html

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Download Instructor’s Evaluation Edition from Key Curriculum Press

http://www.keypress.com/fathom/demo.html

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Walkthrough Guide for Fathom

http://www.keypress.com/fathom/walkthrough_guide.html

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Workshop Statistics, Discovery with Data and Fathom

http://www.rossmanchance.com/wsf/datafiles.html

shape.ftm

shows different types of distributions

stat&shape.ftm

investigate relation between shape of distribution of summary statistics

scaling.ftm

investigate the change of distribution when transforming a set of numerical data

centre1.ftm

centre2.ftm

compare mean and median

deviation1.ftm

investigate the spread of a distribution and its standard deviation

deviation2.ftm

deviation3.ftm

estimate the number of cases less than one standard deviation away from the mean

deviation4.ftm

deviation5.ftm

normal distribution and standard deviation

deviation6.ftm

normal distribution and interquartile range

percentile.ftm

illustrate the calculation of percentile

quartile.ftm

illustrate 5-point summary, box plot and percentile plot

StdDev.ftm

Demonstrate calculation of standard deviation and standard scores

std_score.ftm

compare distribution of standard scores with the original distribution

z_compare.ftm

Use of standard score to compare positions of individual values in two distributions

hospital.ftm

Two-way table and Simpson’s paradox

CorrDemo.ftm

Randomly generated data which shows linear relationship of varying strength and direction in scatter plot and corresponding correlation coefficient.

scatter1.ftm

Simply a small collection with two variables and their scatter plot. Vary the pattern by dragging the points around and see how the correlation coefficient is changing accordingly.

scatter2.ftm

Detailed study of the correlation coefficient, how it is derived from the standard scores.

HypoExams.ftm

3 sets of hypothetical exam scores, showing the importance of identifying outliers and inappropriate grouping.

CityTemp.ftm

TV_GPA.ftm

Two more examples of grouping/ lurking variable.

sample_prop1.ftm

sample_prop2.ftm

sample_prop3.ftm

Experiment on Sampling Distribution of Proportion

open the instruction page

count_prop.ftm

Experiment on Sampling Distribution of Count and Proportion

Guidelines for conducting the experiment

sample_mean1.ftm

sample_mean2.ftm

Experiment on Sampling Distribution of Mean

Guidelines for conducting the experiment

Sampling Distribution (a summary)

Introduction to Confidence Interval

estimate1.ftm

estimate2.ftm

Estimating parameters with Confidence Intervals

Experiment Record Sheets: estimate1.doc; estimate2.doc

estimate3.ftm

estimate4.ftm

Estimating parameters with Confidence Intervals

With adjustable level of confidence

normal1.ftm

normal2.ftm

Approximate Sampling Distribution with a normal curve

students.ftm

Hypothetical data of a class of 36 students

matheng.ftm

Hypothetical Math and Eng scores of students

MathScore.ftm

Math examination scores of secondary one students in a school

MathScore.xls

Same data in Excel format

mammals.ftm

From the article “Sleep in Mammals”

diamond.ftm

Variables that describe a sample of diamonds

Online Statistics Courses, Tools

Exploring Data

http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html

DISCUS: Discovering Important Statistical Concepts Using Spreadsheets

http://www.mis.coventry.ac.uk/research/discus/discus_home.html

Grades 9-12 Data Analysis and Probability at MSTE

http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/stat/stat.html

STAT.NET

http://www.hked-stat.net/common/

Individual Topics

Sampling Distribution

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/sampling_dist/index.html

Confidence Intervals

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/conf_interval/index.html

Guessing Correlations

http://www.stat.uiuc.edu/~stat100/java/GCApplet/GCAppletFrame.html

Mean and Median

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/descriptive/index.html

Comparing Distributions

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/compare_dist/index.html

Matching Histograms and Box Plots

http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/histbox1.htm

Stemplots

http://exploringdata.cqu.edu.au/stemplot.htm

Data Source

Census and Statistics Department, HKSAR

http://www.info.gov.hk/censtatd/home.html

DASL: The Data and Story Library

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/

Chance Database

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/

Elementary Statistics Using Excel

http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/triolaexcel_awl/