M f396C: Applied (Probability and) Statistics, Summer 2009 Home Page

First Day Handout

More Information on Using Math Department Computers (Also see the First Day Handout, above.)

What Is Probability?

External Links:

Tom Cruise

Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization

Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics


The Musical Harmonic Series

Congressional Apportionment

Interactive Venn Diagram


Gapminder Income Distribution

From Joint to Marginal Distribution (Also click "next" to see animation for conditional distribution)

Sampling mean as unbiased estimator of population mean

Many Distributions

Confidence Interval Simulation


Another Confidence Interval Simulation


Still Another Confidence Interval Simulation


Central Limit Theorem Pictures

Central Limit Theorem Demo

Rectangular Galton Board


Rectangular Galton Board plus information

Triangular
Galton Board

Quincunx with Variable Parameters

Bone Density

Life Is Log-Normal!


Pictures of Beta Distributions

Beta Calculator