This is to announce the new package TeachingDemos now available on CRAN. This is a collection of functions that I have used to demonstrate different ideas in various classes taught. Some of the first ones I wrote just to help me visualize what was happening, they latter were usefull in teaching others (both in a 1 on 1 setting, and in classroom type settings).
A few examples (more are available in the package): loess.demo: This was one of the first I wrote, mainly for myself, but others have liked it also. This function creates a scatterplot and shows the loess fit, then when you click on a point in the plot it shows the window around that point, the weights used for the local regression at that point and the local regression used to predict at that point. Additional clicks will show the same info for other x-values. vis.gamma, vis.binom, vis.norm, and vis.t: These functions plot the given distribution (and related distributions) then creates a Tk slider box that allows you to change the parameters to see how the distribution function changes. With overlayed plots you can also see the relationship between related distributions. put.points.demo: Start with a scatterplot that shows the correlation coefficient and least squares line, then add, delete, move points interactively to see how the correlation and regression line change. Hopefully others will find these demonstrations useful, let me know if you have any suggestions for additional demonstrations or improvements on the current ones. Greg Snow, Ph.D. Statistical Data Center, LDS Hospital Intermountain Health Care [EMAIL PROTECTED] (801) 408-8111 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
