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> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 10:46 PM
> To: CHRISTOPHER HAKALA
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Statistics
>
>
> Chris,
>
> I teach at Eureka College, which is also a small, liberal arts school.
> Though we would like to teach statistics in our department
CHRISTOPHER HAKALA wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I teach at a small liberal arts college in PA. Every year, we go
> through the debate over what to do with statistics. At our school,
> stats
> is taught in the math department. My preference would be to do the
> course in our department. Does anyone kn
Chris,
I teach at Eureka College, which is also a small, liberal arts school.
Though we would like to teach statistics in our department, it is taught
out of the mathematics department, instead. My colleague does, however,
teach an advanced statistics course for psychology and other social
scien
One thing you might do is check to see if you can package SPSS for students
with your book. The people who teach stats here have begun to look into
this and it my be very worthwhile for your students. The bookstore here is
charging $80 for SPSS for students alone, however, a book rep said that
the
Dennis -
I've been using Gravetter & Wallnau's "Statistics for the Behavioral
Sciences" for the last 5 years because it provides great coverage of
topics for a very thorough introductory course and it has excellent
step-by-step explanations and descriptions of how and why the formulas
work the way
Dennis,
In my opinion, Lockhart is the best stat book I've ever used. As you know,
first hand, that covers 30 years of teaching stat. I did have a problem the
first time I used Lockhart in that many of the topics no other text covered
I had to add as lectures and handouts in the past. With Lock
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:19:25 -0400 Dennis Goff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> I have also started to collect internet resources to use in the course. Do
> any of you know a good basic site with links to more specific sites? I am
> hoping to find databases that I could use for illustration and
Whoops!
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Jim Clark wrote:
> I also felt that the rules presumed a certain consistency in
> writing out the raw numbers. For example if you measured
> something to the nearest second and recorded it as 2, 3, etc.,
> then it would be processed as though there were only 1
> sign
Hi
There is a lot on the www about significant digits/figures. Go
into google (www.google.com) and search on "significant figures
numbers" or the like. One site led to a simulation showing that
the standard rules are _incorrect_ about half the time. There
were some other interesting things rel
Jim
I am curious about this for several reasons. Stephen and Rick both shed some
light, but those answers are not completely satisfying to me. Could we get
an example of the problem?
Thanks
Dennis
Dennis M. Goff
Dept. of Psychology
Randolph-Macon Woman's College
Lynchburg, VA 24503
On Wed, 19 A
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Jim Dougan wrote:
>
> My stats class typically draws some students from Chemistry and Biology.
> Recently, one of the chemistry students was having a lot of trouble
> getting the correct answers in her computations. I went through her work,
> and discovered that she was appl
On 19 Apr 00, at 11:46, Jim Dougan wrote:
> TIPsters
>
> Here is a question I have not seen addressed before
>
> My stats class typically draws some students from Chemistry and
> Biology. Recently, one of the chemistry students was having a lot of
> trouble getting the correct answers in
Jeff,
I agree with several of the previous posts regarding the integration of stats and
methods.In many ways, I think it is a more important question than the order of the
two courses. I've had the opportunity to teach stats and methods independently as well
as integrated. My conclusion is th
Hi
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, G. Marc Turner wrote:
> At SWT we do have stats as a pre-req for our Methods course. In theory I
> can see why this is a good idea, though I have to admit I'm not sure about
> the real benefit in practice. It seems like they forget almost everything
> from stats before the
We require students to take a statistics course from the Mathematics
Department as a prerequisite to our research sequence. The math stat course
has an algebra requirement. Our Research Methods I course covers typical
subjects in research, with an emphasis on experimental designs. For the
Research
Hi
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jeff Ricker wrote:
> My questions: Is statistics a prerequisite for research methods at your
> school? What are the arguments in favor of this? What are the arguments
> opposed to this?
Yes statistics is a prerequisite, something that I argued very
strongly for against th
Jeff,
I would favor statistics as a prerequisite for a methods course. However, I
teach a two-semester Research Methods and Statistics course that integrates
statistics with methods and design. For example, after we explore the
design of a simple experiment (one IV, two levels, one DV), we move
Jeff, we require statistics before experimental for the reasons you
stated; that is, they are expected to conduct a research project,
analyze their data, and write up their report/or present it. We have so
much to cover in experimental, we cannot spend time teaching stats. In
addition,
>= Original Message From Jeff Ricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>My questions: Is statistics a prerequisite for research methods at your
>school? What are the arguments in favor of this? What are the arguments
>opposed to this?
Here, it is a prerequisite only for Psych majors. Non-psych majors can e
Here statistics is integrated into a two semester research methods course.
There is no other statistics requirement, although I encourage my advisees
to take statistics as their math course for liberal studies.
Kris Lewis
Saint Michael's College
Colchester VT
At SWT we do have stats as a pre-req for our Methods course. In theory I
can see why this is a good idea, though I have to admit I'm not sure about
the real benefit in practice. It seems like they forget almost everything
from stats before they get into my Methods course... perhaps I just feel
lik
Mike Scoles wrote:
> We have stat as a prereq to methods. At times, I have thought that it
> should be the other way around. Having exposure to research
> designs first would provide greater relevance to statistial analysis of
> those designs.
I have the luxury of having my cake and eat
We too, have stats as a prerequisite for methods here at UC. I concur with
Mike's sentiments below.
Mike Scoles wrote:
> Jeff -
>
> We have stat as a prereq to methods. At times, I have thought that it
> should be the other way around. Having exposure to research designs first
> would provide
Jeff -
We have stat as a prereq to methods. At times, I have thought that it
should be the other way around. Having exposure to research designs first
would provide greater relevance to statistial analysis of those designs. On
the other hand, if research is presented as an attempt to explain v
Dear Tipsters,
In reply to Jeff, here is our sequence:
Major
Stats 1 (up to t-test, including chi-square), followed by Methods I
Stats 2 (correlation, anova) taken with Methods 1
Honours
Stats 1 followed by Methods 1
Stats 2 taken with Methods 1
Then Methods 2
Stats 3 (multivariate) for cert
, October 27, 1999 3:08 PM
Subject: RE: Statistics statistic
> No! No! No!
> The correct number is 67.943%
> Sitting alone in my office and looking for something productive to
do in the
> 6.487 minutes before the start of my next class.
> Dennis
>
> Dennis M. Goff
>
I just saw this, today, in fact!
EXCEPT I saw it as "Did you know that 99% of all statistics are
made up on the spot?"
annette :-)
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Beth Benoit wrote:
> Thought this fun "fact" might get a chuckle in class, especially in Statistics
> and
> Methods classes:
>
> Did you know
t;From: Rick Froman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:55 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Statistics statistic
>
>
>Beth Benoit writes on 27 Oct 99,:
>
>> Thought this fun "fact" might get a chuckle in class, especially in
>>
ssage-
From: Rick Froman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 11:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Statistics statistic
Beth Benoit writes on 27 Oct 99,:
> Thought this fun "fact" might get a chuckle in class, especially in
> Statistics and Methods class
Beth Benoit writes on 27 Oct 99,:
> Thought this fun "fact" might get a chuckle in class, especially in
> Statistics and Methods classes:
>
> Did you know that 47.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
>
> Beth Benoit
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
I think the correct ;-} number
I guess I missed this query. I don't see my text on the list. I use Brace &
Brace Understandable STatistics. I like it.
At 11:37 AM 6/8/99 -0400, Mark Sciutto wrote:
>I would like to thank everyone who responded to my request re: stats
textbooks (even though I mistakenly left the subject field
At 06:30 PM 6/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I, too, have used Minitab.
One thing about choosing Minitab: 20 years ago, as an undergrad, I learned
Minitab. In the intervening years I spent a decade in the information
technology field using a variety of tools and languages. No one who ever
interviewe
I, too, have used Minitab. The student version was reasonably priced. Our
Info Tech folks set up our stats lab so that each student had a password to
enter their Minitab student program. We did this so that we could abide by
the site licensing that the program was used only by a single student.
Un
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Steve Milliser went:
> I am looking into using Microsoft Excel in my introductory
> level statistics course in the Fall.
Here's my concern. About a year ago, on one of the stats newsgroups,
someone posted an easily replicable demonstration showing that, for
large numbers,
Hi
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Steve Milliser wrote:
> I am looking into using Microsoft Excel in my introductory
> level statistics course in the Fall. Have any of you tried
> doing this or do you know of a friend/colleague who has?
There was a _huge_ debate on this several years ago on one of the
st
James and other TIPSters,
In my statistics course, I cover everything on your list in 10 weeks,
although the nonparametrics tend to be neglected at the end (something
I'm going to fix, next time around). I highly recommend SPSS for
Windows as an element of your course. I use it, but I do not in
Nancy -
It was
http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/
sent to us courtesy Mike Scoles (thanks, Mike - it _really_ looks like a
good site). Thanks as well to Ron Blue for that NIH/NIMH site with the brain
movies. Once again, TIPS at its best.
Paul Smith
Alverno College
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