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Hans Humenberger – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2025
In the last years special "ovals" appear increasingly often in diagrams and applets for discussing crucial items of statistical inference (when dealing with confidence intervals for an unknown probability p; approximation of the binomial distribution by the normal distribution; especially in German literature, see e.g. [Meyer,…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Prediction, Intervals, Statistical Inference
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Quinn, Anne – Mathematics Teacher, 2016
While looking for an inexpensive technology package to help students in statistics classes, the author found StatKey, a free Web-based app. Not only is StatKey useful for students' year-end projects, but it is also valuable for helping students learn fundamental content such as the central limit theorem. Using StatKey, students can engage in…
Descriptors: Statistics, Computer Oriented Programs, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Kahle, David – Journal of Statistics Education, 2014
In this article, I introduce a novel applet ("module") for exploring probability distributions, their samples, and various related statistical concepts. The module is primarily designed to be used by the instructor in the introductory course, but it can be used far beyond it as well. It is a free, cross-platform, stand-alone interactive…
Descriptors: Monte Carlo Methods, Learning Modules, Probability, Statistical Distributions