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Abstract #301031

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Activity Number: 345
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 : 12:00 PM to 1:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #301031
Title: A Computer Program for Friendly Introductory Statistics Help
Author(s): Gordon P. Brooks*+ and Holly Raffle and Marsha Lewis and Valerie Blom
Companies: Ohio University and Ohio University and Ohio University and Ohio University
Address: 305A McCracken Hall, Athens, OH, 45701,
Keywords: teaching statistics ; computer software ; descriptive statistics ; correlation
Abstract:

It is important for students in applied statistics courses to understand the statistics they use, both conceptually and mathematically. As computers have become more prevalent, fewer students are calculating statistics by hand, perhaps losing the mathematical insight provided by performing such calculations. The FISH: Friendly Introductory Statistics Help program has been written to help students gain these mathematical insights without actually performing the calculations themselves. The FISH program helps students to learn the mathematics behind introductory descriptive statistics such as standard deviations, z scores, and correlations. The program performs calculations in a step-by-step fashion so that students can visualize calculations as they are made. The program accepts data entered by the user or will generate data. FISH creates output such as frequency tables and histograms for single variables and predicted values and scatterplots for two variables. The program also can generate multiple samples, providing an example of a sampling distribution of means. The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the free FISH program.

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