User Notes
Contains: Introduction, Viewing & Printing Tips, & Navigational Aids

This site contains materials for a college level undergraduate statistics course. The approach places emphasis on practical application. Examples are shown with hand computations and with the Minitab statistical program (V13.1). There are a couple of spreadsheets as well.

The material is divided into chapters and consists of text, tables, equations, and figures, in a hypermedia format. Minitab tutorials and some Excel spreadsheets are linked to the chapters as are homework assignments. The material is designed for use in a classroom with a presentation device. The students typically print the lectures (preferably on a color printer) in advance.

The text used as a supplement for the course is McCall, R. B. (2001). Fundamental Statistics for Behavioral Sciences (8-th edition). NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company.

Any suggestions, comments, and/or criticisms are welcome at mplonsky@uwsp.edu.

To give the user a quick idea of the general appearance of equations and figures, an example of each follows.

Example equation showing the defining formula for a standard deviation:



Example figure looking at kurtosis:

1. The site was designed for at least 800x600 screen resolution.
2. Please change the default font of your browser to a sans serif font such as Arial. This will match the fonts used in the equations more closely. To do this with internet explorer, choose the tools menu, internet options, then choose the font button on the general tab, and finally, choose Arial for the web page font.
3. There should be a symbol font resident on your computer. Some examples of symbols used in this document follow (if you don't see them, you will need to install a symbol font). For most computers, this shouldn't be a problem.
   
   

   Alpha	Beta	Sum	Mew	Sigma	Not equal	+ and -	greater than or equal to	less than or equal to	about
   a	b	å	m	s	¹	±	³	£	»

4. If you are presenting the material in front of a class, increase the default font size of your browser so students will have an easier time reading the text of the material. This will help make the size of the text font and that of the font used in the equations more similar as well (the equations are actually pictures).
   

These are found at the top and bottom of most pages of this site.

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