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| Section 3.2 page 111 | ||
| Statistics Canada | ||
| This where researchers from all over the world go to gather officially-collected data on all aspects of Canadian life. ( http://www.statcan.ca/start.html ) | ||
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| Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics | ||
| Click on “Applets” halfway down on the left-hand side of the page for a whole array of virtual coin, dice, spinner, and other probability experiments. ( http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/ ) | ||
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| Research Randomizer | ||
| A website for researchers who need to generate random numbers for random sampling. ( http://www.randomizer.org/ ) | ||
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| The Canadian Economy Online | ||
| This page is part of the Statistics Canada website, which is billed as the “one-stop guide to the national economy”. ( http://www.canadianeconomy.gc.ca/english/economy/index.cfm ) | ||
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| The Gallery of Data Visualization | ||
| This York University website has a comprehensive investigation of what makes for good, bad, and misleading graphs and charts. It also includes a fascinating history of using pictures to display data, including the site’s choices for best (and worst) ever. ( http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/ ) | ||
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| Mean vs. Median | ||
| Learn how changes in the values of a data set may (or may not) change the values of the mean and median values of the data set. ( http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/applets/box.html ) | ||
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| The Normal Distribution | ||
| You can use this applet to investigate how changes to the mean and standard deviation affect the normal distribution. ( http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/applets/normaldemo1.html ) | ||
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| Bias in Measurement | ||
| There are two videos accessible from the bottom of this page which discuss measurement and response bias. ( http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/learningmath/data/session1/part_c/index.html ) | ||
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