Web-Based Statistics: Homework Reports

Homework 1: Summary Statistics Pages Review

• Statistical Society of Canada (Ann)
• Biostats Virtual Library (Bruce & Glen)
• StatLib (Gary)
• American Statistical Association (Jingjing)
• American Statistical Association (Qian)
• Statistical Virtual Library (Roxanne & Weiping)

Homework 2: Data Sources on the Web

• Ameristat (Ann)
• FAO (Bruce & Glen)
• WHO (Jingjing)
• WHO (Qian)
• U.S. Weather Statistics (Roxanne & Weiping)

Homework 3: Finding a Specific Data Source

• Unemployment rates in UT (Ann)
• Unemployment rates in UT (Bruce)
• Unemployment rates in UT (Glen)
• Unemployment rates in UT (JingJing)
• Unemployment rates in UT (Weiping)
• Age structure in UT (Qian)
• Earthquakes in UT since 1990 (Roxanne)

Homework 4: Web-based Teaching Tools Review

• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics (Bruce & Ann)
• UCLA Statistical Calculators (JingJing & Qian)
• Web Enhanced Introductory Stats Courses at WVU (Roxanne & Weiping)

Homework 5: Electronic Textbooks Review

• Statsoft (Ann & Roxanne)
• SticiGui (Bruce & Glen)
• Seeing Statistics (JingJing & Qian)
• Hyperstat Online (Weiping)

Homework 6(III): Preparing and Teaching an Introductory Stats Lecture using Web-based Teaching Tools and Textbooks

In this assignment, the student had to describe all steps they undertook in the process of preparing the lecture on the particular topic.

• Basic graphics: Histogram & Stem-and-Leaf Plot (Bruce & Glen)
• Summary statistics: Mean & Median (Jingjing & Qian)
• Probability (Ann & Roxanne)
• Simple Linear Regression (Weiping)

Homework 7: Evaluation of General Statistical Software Web Sites

• Minitab, R, SAS, SPSS, XploRe (Ann, Glen, Nancy, & Qian)
• Ox, Rweb, Splus, Xlisp, GenStat (Weiping, Jingjing, & Roxanne)

Homework 8: Interfaces between the Web and Statistics (Paper Review)

• Eick (1998) (Glen)
• Eick (1998) (Roxanne)
• Eick (1998) (Qian)
• Eick (1998) (Weiping)
• Kabacoff (1996) (Ann)
• Kabacoff (1996) (Jingjing)

Homework 10: Statistical Software Packages on the Web

In this assignment, the student had to describe how to use statistical software packages available on the Web (Rweb, Rice Virtual Lab, Webstat, Statlets, and XploRe) to solve sample problems assigned by the instructors in Lectures 10, 11, and 12 (see Homework 10).

• Ann
• Jingjing
• Qian
• Roxanne
• Weiping

Homework 11:Statistical Journals on the Web (Review)

• Journal of Statistical Software(Ann)
• Journal of Statistics Education (Glen)
• The American Statistician (Jingjing)
• Interstat (Qian)
• Computational Statistics (Weiping)

Homework 12: Data Collection & Distribution via the Web (Paper Review)

• Lee, Shung, & Chu (1996) (Weiping)
• Nichols & Sedivi (1998) (Qian)
• Sear (1997) (Ann)
• Sear (1997) (Jingjing)
• Sear (1997) (Roxanne)
• Symanzik et al. (1999) (Glen)