Pages
Archives
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- 5-number summary
- 68-95-99.7 Rule
- Alternative Hypothesis
- American roulette
- Bar Graph
- Benford's Law
- Bill Gates
- Binomial Coefficient
- Binomial distribution
- Binomial Experiment
- Birthday Problem
- Blaise Pascal
- Chevalier de Mere
- Chi-square goodness of fit
- Chi-square statistic
- Chi-square test
- Completely Randomized Experimental Design
- Conditional distribution
- Confidence Interval
- Confounding
- Correlation
- Critical Value
- Descriptive statistics
- Diabetes
- Door-to-Balloon Time
- Double blind
- Empirical Rule
- Expected value
- Experiments
- First Quartile
- Gambling
- Games of chance
- Games of dice
- Histogram
- Interquartile Range
- Introduction to statistics
- Introductory statistics
- Joint distribution
- Least-Squares Regression
- Lurking variables
- Marginal distribution
- Matched Pairs t-test
- Mean
- Median
- Normal Curve
- Normal Distribution
- Null Hypothesis
- Observational studies
- One-Sample t-Procedures
- One-Sample t-test
- p-value
- Paul Allen
- Percentile
- Placebo
- Probability
- Randomized Experiments
- Reasoning of Statistical Inference
- Regression Line
- Residual Plot
- Residuals
- Resistant numerical summary
- Sampling Distribution
- Scatterplot
- Standard Deviation
- Statistical Inference
- Statistics In Action
- Stemplot
- t-test
- Tests of Significance
- The law of large numbers
- Third Quartile
- Time Plot
- Two-way tables
- Uniform Distribution
- Warren Buffet
Advertisements
A Student’s View of the Normal Distribution
In my teaching, I always strive to encourage students to look at statistics from a practical point of view. In a recent class period covering the normal distribution, I indicated that data values more than 3 standard deviations away from … Continue reading →