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Email: mweingarden@conejousd.org

[|Subterm 3 Assignment and Test Schedule] [|Subterm 4 (NPHS Quarter 4) Assignment and Test Schedule] [|Class Rules] [|The Birthday Problem Report] [|Piazza Signup Link] [|Edmodo Signup Link] [|Dropbox Link] [|Google Drive Fathom Files] Extra Credit: students should bring in a TI-83 or TI-84 graphing calculator ASAP, the sooner they get one for themselves, the sooner they start earning extra credit. I'll give 5 points a day each day the first week and then 20 points on Monday Feb 4th. Students can only keep the extra credit if they continue to bring the calculator to class every day.


 * media type="custom" key="21476386"(5 points extra credit, due by Feb 11th)
 * [|Fathom Activities: Random Walk, Sampling, etc.]
 * [|Dropbox account signup]
 * [|Dropbox shared folder link]
 * [|Interact Statistics Questions (clicker quiz)]
 * [|Designing Good Survey Questions]
 * [|Good Survey Questions Google Search]
 * [|How to Ask Good Questions]
 * [|Voting Guide]


 * [|Logarithmic Transform Activity]
 * [|Why Statistics? (video)]
 * [|Calculus or Statistics? (MS Word document)]

(For notetaking guides for homework, you must use Google Chrome or the Google Drive app for your smartphone or tablet)


 * [|Fracking Boom]
 * [|Simulations with Fathom]
 * [|R: A Calculator for Big Kids]
 * [|R: Sampling]
 * [|R: Sampling With Replacement]
 * [|American Statistical Association Poster Guidelines]
 * [|International Year of Statistics]
 * [|Statistics Video Contest]
 * [|Pennies Sampling Distribution Project]
 * StatsMrWFall2011 wiki
 * [|Logarithms Poster Project Rubric]
 * [|Fathom Video Tutorials]
 * [|Fathom Resource Page]
 * [|Fathom Videos on youtube]
 * [|Practice of Statistics Fathom files]
 * [|Practice of Statistics Fathom files]

Required Materials

 * Binder: 3 ring, graph paper preferred, dividers for notes, homework, classwork, tests and projects
 * ** If a student prefers to use spiral or otherwise bound notebooks, than the student must have a separate binder for notes so that notes can be used while solving problems. **
 * Pencils and eraser
 * Blue pen and red pen (or 4 color pen, see optional materials below)
 * Fresh print cartridge for home printer and ream of printer paper (you will be printing out section reading guides almost nightly)

Optional but Desirable Materials

 * Graphing Calculator ( [|see notes below] )
 * Link cable for calculator to calculator transfers
 * [|Barron's AP Statistics (test prep book)]
 * [|Statistical Software for your Home Computer]
 * [|4 Color Pen] (these things are great for note taking)
 * [|USB Computer Cable for Graphing Calculator] (can be found at many local stores including Staples, Best Buy, Radio Shack, etc.
 * [|Statistics Educational Videos]

Textbook

 * [|The Practice of Statistics, Third Edition (2008)]
 * [|EESEE Case Studies]
 * [|Online quizzes]
 * [|Statistical Applets]
 * [|Data Sets]
 * [|invT Program for TI-83/83+]

AP Statistics Exam Resources

 * [|AP Statistics Home Page]
 * [|AP Course Description (PDF file)]
 * [|Exam Topic Percentages]
 * [|Getting College Credit for AP Statistics]
 * [|AP Statistics Exam Calendar]
 * [|AP Statistics Exam Fee]
 * [|AP Exam Free Response Questions from Previous Exams]
 * [|Barron's AP Statistics Exam Review]

Internet Resources (tutorials, reference)

 * [|Fathom Tutorials]
 * [|Fathom Sample Data]
 * [|R Tutorials]
 * [|TPS4e]
 * [|Quincunx Explained]
 * [|Glossary of Statistical Terms]
 * [|Online Statistics eBook]
 * [|Another Online Statistics eBook]
 * [|StatTrek]
 * [|TI-84 videos and tutorials]
 * [|Stats Monkey]
 * [|Significance Magazine]
 * [|Chance Magazine]
 * [|Statistics with R]
 * [|Craps Pass Line Bet Probability Tree]
 * [|Baseball Stats Blog]
 * [|Retrosheet Baseball Research]
 * [|Global Footprint]
 * [|Freakonomics Data Analysis Archive]
 * [|1 million random digits]

Data Sources

 * [|Medicare Statistics and Data]
 * [|Statistics Brain]
 * [|Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]
 * [|IMDB]
 * [|Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Examples and Exercises]
 * [|Weather Underground]
 * [|Annals of Improbable Research]
 * [|Baseball Statistics]
 * [|Sports Graphs]
 * [|Baseball Prospectus]
 * [|Harris Interactive]
 * [|SOCR Data]
 * [|Ventura County Star Data Center]
 * [|LA Times Data Desk]
 * [|Gallup Polls]
 * [|US Census]
 * [|Sloan Digital Sky Survey]
 * [|CIA World Factbook]
 * [|Center for Disease Control]
 * [|CauseWeb]
 * [|StatLib]
 * [|Data and Story Library]
 * [|Journal of Statistics Education]
 * [|Tax Foundation]
 * [|FedStats]
 * [|USA.gov]
 * [|Statistics in Sports]
 * [|Internet Traffic and Trends]
 * [|Nielsen Ratings]
 * [|Weather Data]
 * [|Economic Data]
 * [|Opinion Poll Data Sets]
 * [|Smartmoney's Market Map]
 * [|EPA Environment Info]
 * [|National Geographic Environment Info]
 * [|Gapminder World Health Info]
 * [|Glucosamine Study]
 * [|Probabilities in Monopoly] [|Strategies for Winning Monopoly] [|Monopoly and Regression] [|More Monopoly and Regression]

Case Studies

 * [|Case Studies]
 * [|Autism versus Vaccines]

Make Your Own Polls

 * [|Mister Poll]
 * [|Survey.com]
 * [|Bzoink]
 * [|Zapavote]
 * [|SurveyMonkey]

Graphing Calculator

 * A graphing calculator is highly recommended for this course
 * [|Calculators recommended for AP Statistics exam]
 * The calculator that will be used most often in demonstrations will be the TI-83, so it is strongly recommended that you purchase a TI-83, TI-83+ or TI-84 calculator (silver editions are fine also)
 * These calculators can be found on sale at a variety of walk-in locations and online including: Best Buy, Radio Shack, Target, Staples, etc.
 * There are also many used TI-83 calculators for sale at [] for between $40 and $50. [|Amazon.com] also has many in the $50 range
 * [|TI Catalog Help app]
 * [|Probability Simulation app]
 * [|Probability Simulation Manual]
 * [|Explorations: Statistics Handbook for the TI-83]
 * [|TI Activities Exchange]
 * [|TI-83/84+ Guidebooks (user manuals)]
 * [|Great quick reference guide]
 * [|Random sampling without replacement]
 * [|Using the TI-83 in Statistics class, random variables, expected value, etc.]

TI-83 Programs and Guides

 * [|FLIP50 program for the TI-83]
 * [|SPIN123 program]
 * [|invT program]
 * [|Intro to TI-83 with dotplots program]
 * [|Statistics with the TI-83]

Casio Manual and Programming Guides

 * [|Programming]
 * [|Command Guide (keystrokes for all commands)]
 * [|Cool programming guide (actual programs)]
 * [|Many more...]

Simulation Stuff

 * [|Good AP Stats Applet page]
 * [|Sampling Distributions]
 * [|Guess the Regression]
 * [|Guessing Correlations]
 * [|Least Squares Demo from NCTM]
 * [|Build your own correlation coefficient]
 * [|Build your own coefficient of determination]
 * [|Try various transformations]
 * [|Rice University Virtual Simulations Lab]
 * [|Lots 'o' applets]
 * [|SOCR Distribution Simulator]
 * [|Normal distributions]
 * [|More Normal dists]
 * [|Areas Under the Normal Curve]
 * [|The Dice Experiment]
 * [|Tossing a Fair Coin]
 * [|Tossing an Unfair Coin]
 * [|Conditional Probability (Venn Diagrams)]
 * [|Introduction to Probability Models]
 * [|Probability]
 * [|Let's Make A Deal Applet]
 * [|Bayes Rule Applet]
 * [|Quincunx Simulator]
 * [|Quincunx Sim 2]
 * [|Quincunx Sim 3]
 * [|Monty Hall Simulation in Java]
 * [|Monty Hall Simulation in R]
 * Monty Hall Simulation with R (Mr.W.)
 * [|Winning at Craps Simulation in Java]
 * [|Winning at Craps Simulation in R (needs work)]
 * [|Winning at Craps Simulation in R (Example 1.10)]
 * [|Winning a pass line bet at Craps Simulation in R (Mr.W.)]
 * [|Winning a pass line bet at Craps SImulation in R more details (Mr.W.)]
 * [|Reese's Proportion Normal Approximation Simulator]
 * [|Counting streaks with R]
 * [|The Birthday Problem Simulation with Fathom]
 * [|The Birthday Problem Finding the probability that two people have the same birthday (Dr Math)]
 * [|Birthday Problem Simulation R code (Mr.W.)]

Randomness

 * [|The Bible Code Debunked]

Videos (free)

 * [|Udacity: Statistics 101]
 * [|Confidence Intervals (this teacher offers several good statistics videos)]
 * [|Confidence Intervals]
 * [|Conditional Probability from a table]
 * [|Conditional Probability and Tree Diagrams (Cancer Treatment)]
 * [|Conditional Probability (HIV testing)]
 * [|Conditional Probability Article]
 * [|Why AP Statistics? (video)]
 * [|How stats fool juries]
 * [|Against All Odds: Inside Statistics (heavy on applications)]
 * [|Learn360.com (various statistics videos)]
 * [|UC Berkeley Statistics 21 (this is only a link to the first video in a series of many)]
 * [|British Introductory College Statistics]
 * [|Sampling Distributions Video from Khan Academy]

Videos (that cost money)

 * [|Against All Odds: Inside Statistics]
 * [|Meaning from Data: Statistics Made Clear] (also consider Amazon.com or ebay.com to save money on a used copy, just make sure it says you get 4 disks)
 * [|Educator.com: AP Statistics (poor on applications, fair on the math)]
 * [|Introductory Statistics]
 * [|AP Statistics Online Course]

Statistics Software (used in industry)

 * [|Statcato Free Online Stats Software]
 * [|Statcato Labs]
 * [|JMP Free 30 Day Trial]
 * [|JMP 6 Month Rental ($29.95)]
 * [|JMP Tutorials]
 * [|JMP Histogram tutorial]
 * [|Basic Statistics with JMP webcast]
 * [|JMP example projects and reports for Chapter 1]

Statistics Software (for education)

 * [|Fathom ($39.95)]

Statistics Software (free)

 * [|Statcato Free Online Stats Software]
 * [|R (free and but a bit more difficult to master than the stuff listed above)]
 * [|R tutorial]
 * [|More R tutorials]
 * [|Winstats]
 * [|Screen Capture Software (for you to create your own tutorials)]

Data Visualization Software

 * [|Gapminder (really cool data visualization software)]
 * [|Data360]
 * [|KD Nuggets (an index for data visualization software)]

Normal Distributions

 * [|MathIsFun Normal Distributions in a Nutshell page]

Sampling Distributions
Here are some things that are fun to play with regarding sampling distributions:
 * [|Statcato free software, try the sampling distribution lab]
 * [|R free software, see the files listed below]
 * [|Years of Pennies from Fall 2010]

Confidence Intervals

 * Here are some fun things for confidence intervals:
 * [|Applet]
 * [|Medical Study]
 * [|Medical Study 2]

Hypothesis and Significance Testing

 * [|P-value, One- and two-tailed tests explained]
 * [|P-value American Nursing Today]
 * [|P-value for one-tailed versus two-tailed tests]
 * [|Type I and Type II Errors with examples]
 * [|Test of Significance]
 * [|P-value Applet]
 * [|Statistical Significance]
 * [|Power Applet]
 * [|Power Illustrated 1]
 * [|Power Illustrated 1]
 * [|Significance Testing with R]
 * [|More significance testing with R]
 * [|Hypothesis Testing with Statcato]

[|Fall 2012 Subterm 1 schedule of assignments and tests]

[|Fall 2012 **Subterm 2** schedule of assignments and tests]