Presenting Graphical Information on the Web

2. Some Examples: Statistics, Science, and Databases

Gary McClelland's Seeing Statistics project

Some old ways of doing it...

• Normal Distribution
  • Table as presented in contemporary textbook

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    Server-side calculator

• Minimizing of Sum of Squares
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    Formal Proof

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    Animated graphs in Mathematica.

• Contingency Tables and Chi-Square.
  • The Equations

  • University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Virtual Classroom.
    • Vail Water Epidemiology Examples

The New Way with Interactive Graphics...

• Sample Demonstrations of the above.

• An electronic textbook
  (The textbook was demonstrated at the seminar. Access to the textbook requires a password. Those wishing to examine the textbook should contact Gary.McClelland@Colorado.EDU for information on obtaining a password.

• Other Statistics and Probability Applets from Elsewhere
  • P.B. Stark, Berkeley
    • Law of Large Numbers

    • Venn Diagrams

  • WebStat A basic statistical package in Java developed by Webster West at the University of South Carolina.

  • Statlets®. A commercial (but free academic use with limited dataset size) java statistical package.

  • Rossman/Chance Applet Collection

  • Kyle Siegrist's Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics