I like this demonstration. It is very flexible and the sampling process is fairly obvious.
http://onlinestatbook.com/stat_sim/sampling_dist/index.html Douglas Wallen Psychology Department, AH 23 Minnesota State University, Mankato Mankato, MN 56001 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (507) 389-5818 On 5/6/10 10:29 AM, "Annette Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to explain to students with no or minimal stats knowledge the > difference between standard deviation and standard error. They get SD pretty > well because I can talk about average deviation about a mean for a set of > scores. SE, the more commonly accepted error term these days, is a bit more > complicated. Anyone have an "easy" way to describe it to students? > > Annette > > Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. > Professor, Psychological Sciences > University of San Diego > 5998 Alcala Park > San Diego, CA 92110 > [email protected] > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13183.a188af0bc920853d3673ab71c5f2a440&n=T&l > =tips&o=2485 > or send a blank email to > leave-2485-13183.a188af0bc920853d3673ab71c5f2a...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=2491 or send a blank email to leave-2491-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
