Stat 217 Applets

 

Applet Name

First Use

Description

How to use

Random babies

Lab 0

Long-run relative frequency of number of matches

Overview

Dotplot Summaries

Optional (Investigation 1)

Allows you to generate random data or alter data or upload data and then guess the values of the mean/median/standard deviation/IQR.

How to use

Histogram Bin Width

Optional (Investigation 1)

Allows you to plot data in a histogram and to try different bin widths.

How to use

Simulating Coin Tossing

Lab 1

Distribution of number of successes in repeated samples of a set of coin tosses

Overview

Visual demo

Simulation-Based One Proportion Inference 

Investigation 2

Distribution of proportion of success repeated samples from a process with success probability "pi"

 

Sampling Words

Investigation 3

Distributions of sample results in random samples from Gettysburg Address

Overview

Reeses Pieces

Lab 2

Sampling distribution of sample proportion (simulation and normal approximation)

Overview

Normal Probability Calculator applet  
Calculate probabilities and percentiles from a normal distribution

Overview

Visual demo

Theory-Based Inference

Carry out one and two-sample tests and confidence intervals based on normal distribution

Visual demo

Randomization of subjects

Day 16

Distribution of differences in explanatory variables groups from random assignment

Overview

Yawning Study applet

Two-way Table Inference applet
 

Lab 3

Distribution of difference in success rates from random assignment

Overview

Visual demo

Sampling Means Simulation applet

Lab 4

Draws samples from different theoretical populations and displays distribution of sample means, t-statistics

 

Simulating Confidence Intervals

Investigation 5

Explore properties of confidence intervals for pi and mu (not for analysis)

Sampling Pennies

Week 5 Reading

Explore sampling distribution of sample mean from right skewed population

Overview

Sampling Change

Week 5 Reading

Explore sampling distribution of sample mean from uniform population

Randomization test applet

Lab 6

 Re-randomizes quantitative response across two groups, displays distribution of differences in sample means

Matched-Pairs Simulation applet

Lab 5

Randomly swaps values for paired data, displays difference of mean differences

Guess the Correlation

Day 31

Guess value of r for random scatterplots

How to use

Least Squares Regression with Scrambling

Lab 8

Explore properties of least squares lines and exampling distribution of sample slopes from repeated shuffles

How to use

Chi-square scramble applet (don't use IE)Lab 9Explore properties of scrambling a categorical response and examkining different statistics

Additional Applets:

 

 

 

Creating Boxplots
from Shodor

Allows you to generate  boxplots by copying and pasting in your data. For parallel boxplots, use the formal x, y. and Graph by Category.

ANOVA

Explore properties of ANOVA table and p-value

How to use

 

The applets in italics can be used for analysis as well as for demonstration/simulation.