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https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=mXr0CI12-PI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3y2TDzoVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k8_nGMF9RY
As you build your Excel file when you watch the video it is very important to enter exactly the same student
scores as shown in the video. Click here for an easy to read screenshot of the final Excel screen shown in
the video.

Here also are the student scores:


Name

Score 1

Score 2

Score 3

Anne

176

165

179

Bob

207

224

198

Cindy

137

154

142

82

79

101

Don

Lloyd's PowerPoints

01-Rieber-Introduction to Statistics.ppt

02-Rieber-Descriptive Statistics.ppt

03-Rieber-z scores.ppt

04-Rieber-Correlational Statistics.pptx

05-Rieber-Inferential Statistics.pptx

05a-Rieber-t test formulas.pptx

05b-Rieber-ANOVA formulas.pptx

Other Online Courses


Carnegie-Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative (Links to an external site.)
This is a wonderful resource for learning a variety of topics. The link I've provided is to the general catalog of
courses, as I thought everyone would like to see the range of topics covered (not just statistics). Scroll down
the and click on "Probability & Statistics."
Khan Academy - Probability & Statistics (Links to an external site.)
Coursera - Statistics One (Links to an external site.)
Offered by Princeton University; Statistics One is a comprehensive yet friendly introduction to statistics.
StatLearning: Statistical Learning (Links to an external site.)
Stanford University

Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics (Links to an external site.)


UC-Berkeley
Intro to Statistics (Links to an external site.)
Making Decisions Based on Data

Useful YouTube Videos


Statistics 101 with Brandon Foltz (Links to an external site.)
Lloyd highly recommends this video series. Foltz does an excellent job of explaining a wide range of
statistical concepts and principles.
Statisticsfun by (Links to an external site.)David Longstreet (Links to an external site.)

Joy of Stats from OpenLearn - http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/the-joy-stats (Links to an external


site.) This is an interesting series of video shorts (first shown as a BBC documentary) presented by
Professor Hans Rosling. (posted by Charlotte Ates, 7/7/14)
YouTube Tip
YouTube offers a HTML5 player (in addition to their Flash-based) that you can turn on by going here and
select HTML5 for default player:
https://www.youtube.com/html5 (Links to an external site.)
This option allows you to watch the videos at 1.5 or even 2 times the normal speed. Unfortunately, if you
choose this method, you cannot have better video resolution than 360 pixels.

Other Online Resources


OpenStax Statistics Book - This is free!
https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/introductory-statistics (Links to an external site.)
Statsoft Electronic Statistics Textbook: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/ (Links to an external site.)
This is a good resource for a quick review of different types of analyses.
Saw this article's headline and first sentence, so thought I would share.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/money/investing/lies-damn-lies-and-investing-20130805-2r8j4.html
Collaborative Statistics (Links to an external site.)Illowsky and Dean, a Creative Commons OER (open
educational resource). Lots of great detail, videos, examples, etc.
Other Statistics packages/extensions - make sure they will work on your system/ios before trying to install
and remember to set an install point in Windows before installing.
Open Office
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Statistical_functions (Links to an

external site.)
OPEN OFFICE CALC Statistics

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/r4calc-r-statistics-ooocalc (Links to an external


site.)

http://dean.serenevy.net/teaching/classes/Fall2007/M111-2/Statistics_in_OpenOffice.pdf (Links to an
external site.)

List of Statistical software packages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statistical_packages (Links


to an external site.)

Excel Resources
Windows Excel before 360- Analysis Toolpak

http://www.bing.com/search?

q=analysis+toolpak+excel+2010&qs=AS&form=QBLH&pq=analysis+too&sc=8-12&sp=2&sk=AS1 (Li
nks to an external site.)
MAC EXcel replacements

Solver for Excel for Mac: http://www.solver.com/mac (Links to an external site.)

StatPlus:mac LE: http://www.analystsoft.com/en/products/statplusmacle/ (Links to an external site.)

MAC Excel online tutorials: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/how-to/training/excel (Links to an external


site.)

Windows Excel online tutorials: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/training-courses-forexcel-2013-HA104032083.aspx (Links to an external site.)

Libre https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Statistics_Functions

Lifehacker: Excel shortcuts (Links to an external site.)

Lessons
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/math/stats/ (Links to an external site.)
Books- ebook
Probability and statistics http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook (Links to an external site.)

Excel Tips & Tricks


[If you know some good shortcuts or techniques, please share them here.]

How to create a bell curve-like chart in Excel (aka a frequency polygon, similar to a histogram)
Looked into how to create a frequency distribution of scores with Excel, a la a normal (bell) curve:
http://www.scu.edu/training/tipsandtricks.cfm?c=6783 (Links to an external site.)
This was produced by the Technology Training staff at Santa Clara University. (It was a little confusing at first
to figure out, so beware!)

Free replacement for Analysis Toolpak for Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011
In the 'Computing a t Test for a Correlated-Samples Design' video lecture, Prof. Rieber mentioned that the
Data Analysis Toolpak is no longer available free of charge for Excel for Mac 2011.
Fortunately, an alternative is available. AnalystSoft's StatPlus:mac LE is a free replacement of the Analysis
Toolpak. It is compatible with Excel 2004, 2008 and 2011. A Pro version is also available but it seems that
the free variant has most of the functions that were available in the Toolpak.
The Solver tool also becomes available after installing Service Pack 1 for Office for Mac 2011. Here's the link
to the Microsoft support page that shows how to install the Service Pack and enable Solver from the Add-Ins
menu: What happened to the Data Analysis Toolpak or Solver in Excel for Mac 2011? (Links to an external
site.)
Interestingly, on the same page, Microsoft is recommending AnalystSoft's StatPlus:mac LE (a competing
product) as replacement for the Toolpak.
And this is the link for downloading StatPlus:mac LE (Links to an external site.)
I installed both Solver and StatPlus:mac LE on a colleague's MacBook Air and conducted an ANOVA test of
the quiz values just to make sure everything works correctly. When it runs for the first time, StatPlus shows a
message box recommending an update to the Pro version, but that goes away for good with a single check.

Fun With Statistics:


This is a great discussion on causation versus correlation and how impossible it is to know anything for
certain. Planet Money Ep 453. (Links to an external site.)
Did you ever wonder how regression lines might be applied to your favorite TV show? Well, wonder no
longer. Courtesy of io9 (Links to an external site.).
For fun with correlation versus causation, check out Spurious Correlations (Links to an external site.).

Non-American Examples of Using Statistics


Yes, Lloyd's course examples of statistics are somewhat "American-centric." (Who really cares about
American baseball, anyway.) But, no worries, you can add your examples here! Perhaps you know of a good
link of how statistics is used in your country or community. Here's the place to share. See if you can explain
the statistics principle at work in 25 words or less. Extra points if the example involves an accordion.

Unit 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT9-1IyoPp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss54wOcVmBU

As you build your Excel file when you watch the video it is very important to enter exactly the same student
scores as shown in the video. Click here for an easy to read screenshot of the final Excel screen shown in
the video
.

Here also are the student scores:


34
22
23
29
24
30
35
37
16
29

Here are the formulas used in this video tutorial:

Mean
In plain English: The mean is the sum of all the raw scores divided by the total number of scores.

Standard Deviation
In plain English: A standard deviation for a sample (when you do not wish it to be an estimate for the
population) is the square root of... the sum of the squared deviation scores (a person's score minus the
group mean), divided by the total number of people.
Important note: You use N-1 in the denominator when you have a sample but you do wish to use it as an
estimate for the population's standard deviation.

nstructions
Computing the Standard Deviation of a Set of Student Scores
After you have built your own Excel spreadsheet based on watching the video tutorial Computing The
Standard Deviation Of A Set Of Student Scores: Excel Video Tutorial (25:50), edit your spreadsheet to
replace the scores for all of the students with the following:

Student

Scores

44

32

33

39

34

20

25

27

19

Suggestion: Choose to "save as" and give the spreadsheet a new name to show that it is the "quiz" version.
The reason is that you will need the original spreadsheet (with the original scores) when you complete the
next Excel video tutorial.
Answer the following questions based on these new scores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx1AF_rHRn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L5C0ejlEbg
As you build your Excel file when you watch the video it is very important to enter exactly the same student
scores as shown in the video. Click here for an easy to read screenshot of the final Excel screen shown in
the video.

Here also are the student scores:

34
22
23
29
24
30
35
37
16
29

Here is the formula for computing a z score:


In plain English: A z score is a person's raw score minus the group mean (also known as a deviation score),
divided by the standard deviation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmSJNvYZJhA

Instructions
Computing z Scores for a Set of Student Scores
After you have built your own Excel spreadsheet based on watching the video tutorial "Computing The
Standard (z) Scores of A Set of Student Scores: Excel Video Tutorial (8:11)," edit your spreadsheet to enter
the following scores for all of the students:

Student

Scores

44

32

33

39

34

20

25

27

19

Note: These new scores are the same ones used in Evaluation 2.
Suggestion: Choose to "save as" and give the spreadsheet a new name to show that it is the "quiz" version.
The reason is that you will need the original spreadsheet (with the original scores) when you complete the
next Excel video tutorial.
Answer the following questions based on these new scores.

01-Rieber-Introduction to Statistics.ppt

02-Rieber-Descriptive Statistics.ppt

03-Rieber-z scores.ppt

04-Rieber-Correlational Statistics.pptx

05-Rieber-Inferential Statistics.pptx

05a-Rieber-t test formulas.pptx

05b-Rieber-ANOVA formulas.pptx

Recommended Books
Lloyd's Recommended Textbook
No textbook is required for this course. However, if you want a full and detailed introduction to the concepts
and principles covered in this course, this is the textbook I strongly recommend purchasing:
Spatz, Chris. (2011). Basic statistics: Tales of distributions (10th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage.
I really can't say enough about this textbook. Of all the textbooks I've read and used over the years, this is
hands-down the most readable of them all. I had the good fortune to use the second edition over 30 years
ago and still have it and consult it (I bought a more recent edition around 2000). Even when I was taking
advanced statistics as part of my Ph.D., I would turn to this book over and over for reminders and refreshers
of the basics. You will notice that I use several examples from this textbook in this course (giving credit each
time). Although new copies are rather expensive (as are all college textbooks), you can find older editions for
very little cost on Amazon, etc.
(Also there is a Spatz e-guide of his book that is not too expensive on Amazon.co.uk that can be used with
Kindle or iPad)

Another Book Lloyd Recommends


If you want an entertaining and informative book about the history of statistics, I recommend the following:
Salsburg, David. (2001). The lady tasting tea: How statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century.
New York: Henry Holt and Company.
I also enjoyed how Salsburg introduces and describes the prominent people from the history of statistics. You
get a good sense of the personalities of people like Karl Pearson, R.A. Fisher, William Gosset, Francis
Galton, Florence David, John Tukey, and Thomas Bayes.

Other Online Courses


Carnegie-Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative (Links to an external site.)
This is a wonderful resource for learning a variety of topics. The link I've provided is to the general catalog of
courses, as I thought everyone would like to see the range of topics covered (not just statistics). Scroll down
the and click on "Probability & Statistics."
Khan Academy - Probability & Statistics (Links to an external site.)
Coursera - Statistics One (Links to an external site.)
Offered by Princeton University; Statistics One is a comprehensive yet friendly introduction to statistics.

StatLearning: Statistical Learning (Links to an external site.)


Stanford University

Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics (Links to an external site.)


UC-Berkeley
Intro to Statistics (Links to an external site.)
Making Decisions Based on Data

Useful YouTube Videos


Statistics 101 with Brandon Foltz (Links to an external site.)
Lloyd highly recommends this video series. Foltz does an excellent job of explaining a wide range of
statistical concepts and principles.
Statisticsfun by (Links to an external site.)David Longstreet (Links to an external site.)
Joy of Stats from OpenLearn - http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/the-joy-stats (Links to an external
site.) This is an interesting series of video shorts (first shown as a BBC documentary) presented by
Professor Hans Rosling. (posted by Charlotte Ates, 7/7/14)
YouTube Tip
YouTube offers a HTML5 player (in addition to their Flash-based) that you can turn on by going here and
select HTML5 for default player:
https://www.youtube.com/html5 (Links to an external site.)
This option allows you to watch the videos at 1.5 or even 2 times the normal speed. Unfortunately, if you
choose this method, you cannot have better video resolution than 360 pixels.

Other Online Resources


OpenStax Statistics Book - This is free!
https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/introductory-statistics (Links to an external site.)
Statsoft Electronic Statistics Textbook: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/ (Links to an external site.)
This is a good resource for a quick review of different types of analyses.
Saw this article's headline and first sentence, so thought I would share.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/money/investing/lies-damn-lies-and-investing-20130805-2r8j4.html

Collaborative Statistics (Links to an external site.)Illowsky and Dean, a Creative Commons OER (open
educational resource). Lots of great detail, videos, examples, etc.
Other Statistics packages/extensions - make sure they will work on your system/ios before trying to install
and remember to set an install point in Windows before installing.
Open Office
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Statistical_functions (Links to an

external site.)
OPEN OFFICE CALC Statistics

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/r4calc-r-statistics-ooocalc (Links to an external

site.)
http://dean.serenevy.net/teaching/classes/Fall2007/M111-2/Statistics_in_OpenOffice.pdf (Links to an

external site.)
List of Statistical software packages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statistical_packages (Links

to an external site.)
Excel Resources
Windows Excel before 360- Analysis Toolpak

http://www.bing.com/search?

q=analysis+toolpak+excel+2010&qs=AS&form=QBLH&pq=analysis+too&sc=8-12&sp=2&sk=AS1 (Li
nks to an external site.)
MAC EXcel replacements

Solver for Excel for Mac: http://www.solver.com/mac (Links to an external site.)

StatPlus:mac LE: http://www.analystsoft.com/en/products/statplusmacle/ (Links to an external site.)

MAC Excel online tutorials: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/how-to/training/excel (Links to an external


site.)

Windows Excel online tutorials: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/training-courses-forexcel-2013-HA104032083.aspx (Links to an external site.)

Libre https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Statistics_Functions

Lifehacker: Excel shortcuts (Links to an external site.)

Lessons
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/math/stats/ (Links to an external site.)

Books- ebook
Probability and statistics http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook (Links to an external site.)

Excel Tips & Tricks


[If you know some good shortcuts or techniques, please share them here.]

How to create a bell curve-like chart in Excel (aka a frequency polygon, similar to a histogram)
Looked into how to create a frequency distribution of scores with Excel, a la a normal (bell) curve:
http://www.scu.edu/training/tipsandtricks.cfm?c=6783 (Links to an external site.)
This was produced by the Technology Training staff at Santa Clara University. (It was a little confusing at first
to figure out, so beware!)

Free replacement for Analysis Toolpak for Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011
In the 'Computing a t Test for a Correlated-Samples Design' video lecture, Prof. Rieber mentioned that the
Data Analysis Toolpak is no longer available free of charge for Excel for Mac 2011.
Fortunately, an alternative is available. AnalystSoft's StatPlus:mac LE is a free replacement of the Analysis
Toolpak. It is compatible with Excel 2004, 2008 and 2011. A Pro version is also available but it seems that
the free variant has most of the functions that were available in the Toolpak.
The Solver tool also becomes available after installing Service Pack 1 for Office for Mac 2011. Here's the link
to the Microsoft support page that shows how to install the Service Pack and enable Solver from the Add-Ins
menu: What happened to the Data Analysis Toolpak or Solver in Excel for Mac 2011? (Links to an external
site.)
Interestingly, on the same page, Microsoft is recommending AnalystSoft's StatPlus:mac LE (a competing
product) as replacement for the Toolpak.
And this is the link for downloading StatPlus:mac LE (Links to an external site.)
I installed both Solver and StatPlus:mac LE on a colleague's MacBook Air and conducted an ANOVA test of
the quiz values just to make sure everything works correctly. When it runs for the first time, StatPlus shows a
message box recommending an update to the Pro version, but that goes away for good with a single check.

Fun With Statistics:

This is a great discussion on causation versus correlation and how impossible it is to know anything for
certain. Planet Money Ep 453. (Links to an external site.)
Did you ever wonder how regression lines might be applied to your favorite TV show? Well, wonder no
longer. Courtesy of io9 (Links to an external site.).
For fun with correlation versus causation, check out Spurious Correlations (Links to an external site.).

Non-American Examples of Using Statistics


Yes, Lloyd's course examples of statistics are somewhat "American-centric." (Who really cares about
American baseball, anyway.) But, no worries, you can add your examples here! Perhaps you know of a good
link of how statistics is used in your country or community. Here's the place to share. See if you can explain
the statistics principle at work in 25 words or less. Extra points if the example involves an accordion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3zJFf_lhkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTMDQBNLglQ
As you build your Excel file when you watch the video it is very important to enter exactly the same student
scores as shown in the video. Click here for an easy to read screenshot of the final Excel screen shown in
the video.

Here also are the student scores:


General Survey

Course Survey

Student

Student

Scores

Scores

34 A

38

22 B

22

23 C

36

29 D

40

24 E

32

30 F

31

35 G

43

37 H

36

16 I

29

29 J

37

Instructions
Computing a Pearson r from Two Sets of Student Scores
After you have built your own Excel spreadsheet based on watching the video tutorial "Computing a Pearson
Product Moment Correlation Coefficient: Excel Video Tutorial (22:24)," edit your spreadsheet to enter the
following scores for the General Survey for all of the students:

Student

Scores

44

32

33

39

34

20

25

27

19

Note: These new scores are the same ones used in Evaluation 3. However, be careful to replace only the
General Survey scores with these new scores. Do not change the scores for the Course Survey.
Suggestion: Choose to "save as" and give the spreadsheet a new name to show that it is the "quiz" version.
The reason is that you will need the original spreadsheet (with the original scores) when you complete the
next Excel video tutorial.
Answer the following question based on these new scores.

Lloyd's PowerPoints

01-Rieber-Introduction to Statistics.ppt

02-Rieber-Descriptive Statistics.ppt

03-Rieber-z scores.ppt

04-Rieber-Correlational Statistics.pptx

05-Rieber-Inferential Statistics.pptx

05a-Rieber-t test formulas.pptx

05b-Rieber-ANOVA formulas.pptx

Recommended Books
Lloyd's Recommended Textbook
No textbook is required for this course. However, if you want a full and detailed introduction to the concepts
and principles covered in this course, this is the textbook I strongly recommend purchasing:
Spatz, Chris. (2011). Basic statistics: Tales of distributions (10th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage.
I really can't say enough about this textbook. Of all the textbooks I've read and used over the years, this is
hands-down the most readable of them all. I had the good fortune to use the second edition over 30 years
ago and still have it and consult it (I bought a more recent edition around 2000). Even when I was taking
advanced statistics as part of my Ph.D., I would turn to this book over and over for reminders and refreshers
of the basics. You will notice that I use several examples from this textbook in this course (giving credit each
time). Although new copies are rather expensive (as are all college textbooks), you can find older editions for
very little cost on Amazon, etc.
(Also there is a Spatz e-guide of his book that is not too expensive on Amazon.co.uk that can be used with
Kindle or iPad)

Another Book Lloyd Recommends


If you want an entertaining and informative book about the history of statistics, I recommend the following:
Salsburg, David. (2001). The lady tasting tea: How statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century.
New York: Henry Holt and Company.
I also enjoyed how Salsburg introduces and describes the prominent people from the history of statistics. You
get a good sense of the personalities of people like Karl Pearson, R.A. Fisher, William Gosset, Francis
Galton, Florence David, John Tukey, and Thomas Bayes.

Other Online Courses


Carnegie-Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative (Links to an external site.)
This is a wonderful resource for learning a variety of topics. The link I've provided is to the general catalog of
courses, as I thought everyone would like to see the range of topics covered (not just statistics). Scroll down
the and click on "Probability & Statistics."
Khan Academy - Probability & Statistics (Links to an external site.)
Coursera - Statistics One (Links to an external site.)
Offered by Princeton University; Statistics One is a comprehensive yet friendly introduction to statistics.
StatLearning: Statistical Learning (Links to an external site.)
Stanford University

Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics (Links to an external site.)


UC-Berkeley
Intro to Statistics (Links to an external site.)
Making Decisions Based on Data

Useful YouTube Videos


Statistics 101 with Brandon Foltz (Links to an external site.)
Lloyd highly recommends this video series. Foltz does an excellent job of explaining a wide range of
statistical concepts and principles.

Statisticsfun by (Links to an external site.)David Longstreet (Links to an external site.)


Joy of Stats from OpenLearn - http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/the-joy-stats (Links to an external
site.) This is an interesting series of video shorts (first shown as a BBC documentary) presented by
Professor Hans Rosling. (posted by Charlotte Ates, 7/7/14)
YouTube Tip
YouTube offers a HTML5 player (in addition to their Flash-based) that you can turn on by going here and
select HTML5 for default player:
https://www.youtube.com/html5 (Links to an external site.)
This option allows you to watch the videos at 1.5 or even 2 times the normal speed. Unfortunately, if you
choose this method, you cannot have better video resolution than 360 pixels.

Other Online Resources


OpenStax Statistics Book - This is free!
https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/introductory-statistics (Links to an external site.)
Statsoft Electronic Statistics Textbook: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/ (Links to an external site.)
This is a good resource for a quick review of different types of analyses.
Saw this article's headline and first sentence, so thought I would share.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/money/investing/lies-damn-lies-and-investing-20130805-2r8j4.html
Collaborative Statistics (Links to an external site.)Illowsky and Dean, a Creative Commons OER (open
educational resource). Lots of great detail, videos, examples, etc.
Other Statistics packages/extensions - make sure they will work on your system/ios before trying to install
and remember to set an install point in Windows before installing.
Open Office
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Statistical_functions (Links to an

external site.)
OPEN OFFICE CALC Statistics

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/r4calc-r-statistics-ooocalc (Links to an external


site.)

http://dean.serenevy.net/teaching/classes/Fall2007/M111-2/Statistics_in_OpenOffice.pdf (Links to an
external site.)

List of Statistical software packages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statistical_packages (Links

to an external site.)
Excel Resources
Windows Excel before 360- Analysis Toolpak

http://www.bing.com/search?

q=analysis+toolpak+excel+2010&qs=AS&form=QBLH&pq=analysis+too&sc=8-12&sp=2&sk=AS1 (Li
nks to an external site.)
MAC EXcel replacements

Solver for Excel for Mac: http://www.solver.com/mac (Links to an external site.)

StatPlus:mac LE: http://www.analystsoft.com/en/products/statplusmacle/ (Links to an external site.)

MAC Excel online tutorials: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/how-to/training/excel (Links to an external


site.)

Windows Excel online tutorials: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/training-courses-forexcel-2013-HA104032083.aspx (Links to an external site.)

Libre https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Statistics_Functions

Lifehacker: Excel shortcuts (Links to an external site.)

Lessons
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/math/stats/ (Links to an external site.)
Books- ebook
Probability and statistics http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook (Links to an external site.)

Excel Tips & Tricks


[If you know some good shortcuts or techniques, please share them here.]

How to create a bell curve-like chart in Excel (aka a frequency polygon, similar to a histogram)
Looked into how to create a frequency distribution of scores with Excel, a la a normal (bell) curve:
http://www.scu.edu/training/tipsandtricks.cfm?c=6783 (Links to an external site.)

This was produced by the Technology Training staff at Santa Clara University. (It was a little confusing at first
to figure out, so beware!)

Free replacement for Analysis Toolpak for Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011
In the 'Computing a t Test for a Correlated-Samples Design' video lecture, Prof. Rieber mentioned that the
Data Analysis Toolpak is no longer available free of charge for Excel for Mac 2011.
Fortunately, an alternative is available. AnalystSoft's StatPlus:mac LE is a free replacement of the Analysis
Toolpak. It is compatible with Excel 2004, 2008 and 2011. A Pro version is also available but it seems that
the free variant has most of the functions that were available in the Toolpak.
The Solver tool also becomes available after installing Service Pack 1 for Office for Mac 2011. Here's the link
to the Microsoft support page that shows how to install the Service Pack and enable Solver from the Add-Ins
menu: What happened to the Data Analysis Toolpak or Solver in Excel for Mac 2011? (Links to an external
site.)
Interestingly, on the same page, Microsoft is recommending AnalystSoft's StatPlus:mac LE (a competing
product) as replacement for the Toolpak.
And this is the link for downloading StatPlus:mac LE (Links to an external site.)
I installed both Solver and StatPlus:mac LE on a colleague's MacBook Air and conducted an ANOVA test of
the quiz values just to make sure everything works correctly. When it runs for the first time, StatPlus shows a
message box recommending an update to the Pro version, but that goes away for good with a single check.

Fun With Statistics:


This is a great discussion on causation versus correlation and how impossible it is to know anything for
certain. Planet Money Ep 453. (Links to an external site.)
Did you ever wonder how regression lines might be applied to your favorite TV show? Well, wonder no
longer. Courtesy of io9 (Links to an external site.).
For fun with correlation versus causation, check out Spurious Correlations (Links to an external site.).

Non-American Examples of Using Statistics


Yes, Lloyd's course examples of statistics are somewhat "American-centric." (Who really cares about
American baseball, anyway.) But, no worries, you can add your examples here! Perhaps you know of a good
link of how statistics is used in your country or community. Here's the place to share. See if you can explain
the statistics principle at work in 25 words or less. Extra points if the example involves an accordion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmy5U4xJxw8
In this example, you will compute a t test for a correlated-samples design using a one-group pretest-posttest
design.
This video tutorial is about 37 minutes in length, but you should set aside at least two hours to complete this
activity. (You are expected to pause and rewind the video as needed.)
Before you begin, please launch Microsoft Excel. In the video, Lloyd will be using Macintosh Excel 2011, so if
you are using a different version, you may need to learn on your own where certain commands and options
are located in your version.
Be sure to save the Excel spreadsheet file often as you build it while following the video tutorial and keep it in
a safe place because you will need it later for an evaluation activity.
Other resources:
Critical values of Student's t distribution: resource1 (Links to an external site.) | resource2 (Links to

an external site.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC49ZLjB0Kc

As you build your Excel file when you watch the video it is very important to enter exactly the same

student scores as shown in the video. Click here for an easy to read screenshot of the final Excel
screen shown in the video
.

Here also are the student scores:

Pretest
Student

Posttest
Scores

Student

Scores

34 A

38

22 B

22

23 C

36

29 D

40

24 E

32

30 F

31

35 G

43

37 H

36

16 I

29

29 J

37

Instructions
Computing a Computing a Correlated-Samples t Test
After you have built your own Excel spreadsheet based on watching the video tutorial "Computing a t Test
For a Correlated Samples Design: Excel Video Tutorial (37:01)," edit your spreadsheet to enter the following
scores for the Pretest:

Student

Pretest
Scores

44

32

33

39

34

20

25

27

19

Note: These new scores are the same ones used in Evaluation 4. However, be careful to replace only the
pretest scores with these new scores. Do not change the scores for the posttest.

Suggestion: Choose to "save as" and give the spreadsheet a new name to show that it is the "quiz" version.
The reason is that you will need the original spreadsheet (with the original scores) when you complete the
next Excel video tutorial.
Answer the following question based on these new scores.
In this example, you will compute a t test for an independent-samples design using a posttest-only control
group design.
This video tutorial is about 16 minutes in length, but you should set aside about an hour to complete this
activity. (You are expected to pause and rewind the video as needed.)
Before you begin, please launch Microsoft Excel. In the video, Lloyd will be using Macintosh Excel 2011, so if
you are using a different version, you may need to learn on your own where certain commands and options
are located in your version.
Be sure to save the Excel spreadsheet file often as you build it while following the video tutorial and keep it in
a safe place.
Other resources:
Critical values of Student's t distribution: resource1 (Links to an external site.) | resource2 (Links to an
external site.)
As you build your Excel file when you watch the video it is very important to enter exactly the same student
scores as shown in the video. Click here for an easy to read screenshot of the final Excel screen shown in
the video
.

Here also are the student scores:


Group 1
Student

Group 2
Scores

Student

Scores

34 K

38

22 L

22

23 M

36

29 N

40

24 O

32

30 P

31

35 Q

43

37 R

36

16 S

29

29 T

37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5nqxeIP964

Instructions
Computing a Computing a Independent-Samples t Test
After you have built your own Excel spreadsheet based on watching the video tutorial "Computing a t Test
For an Independent Samples Design: Excel Video Tutorial (15:19)," edit your spreadsheet to enter the
following scores for Group 1:

Student

Group 1
Scores

44

32

33

39

34

20

25

27

19

Note: These new scores are the same ones used in Evaluation 5. However, be careful to replace only the
Group 1 scores with these new scores. Do not change the scores for Group 2.

Suggestion: Choose to "save as" and give the spreadsheet a new name to show that it is the "quiz" version.
The reason is that you will need the original spreadsheet (with the original scores) when you complete the
next Excel video tutorial.
Answer the following question based on these new scores.

Computing an Analysis of Variance


(ANOVA): Excel Video Tutorial
(1:10:10)
Computing a One-Way Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA)
In this example, you will compute a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The term "one-way" refers to the
fact that there is only one factor in the research design. In this tutorial, we'll use the example of an online
tutorial that has three levels of the factor "graphics": level 1 uses animated graphics, level 2 uses static
graphics, and level 3 uses no graphics (or text only).
This video tutorial is long, over an hour. I provide an important review at the beginning, followed by the Excel
activity. You should allow for at least two hours to complete just the Excel activity. (As always, pause and
rewind the video as needed.) I recommend watching this video and completing the activity all in one session,
but I have divided the video into the following parts:
Introduction (16 minutes)

00:00-16:00

Orientation to the ANOVA spreadsheet (2:25 minutes)

16:00-17:25

Excel Activity: Part 1 (30:03 minutes)

17:25-47:28

Excel Activity: Part 2 (7:35 minutes)

47:28-55:03

Excel Activity: Part 3 (4:23 minutes)

59:26-1:07:22

Excel Activity: Part 4 (7:57 minutes)

59:26-1:07:22

Wrap-Up (2:17 minutes)

1:07:22-1:10:10

As you can see, the majority of the Excel activity occurs in part 1. If you are unable to complete the entire
video in one sesssion, then schedule a break at the end of part 1.
At the start of the tutorial, you will also be asked to copy and paste the following steps into your Excel
spreadsheet:

PART 1: CALCULATE THE SUM OF SQUARES


Step 1: Enter Participant IDs, Group IDs, and Raw Scores
Step 2: Calculate N total, Grand Mean, Group Ns, and Group Means
Step 3: Calculate Squared Deviation Scores For Raw Scores Using Group Means and Grand Mean
Step 4: Calculate the Total Sum of Squares (SStotal)
Step 5: Compute Error Sum of Squares (SSerror)
Step 6: Calculate Squared Deviation Scores For Group Means Using Grand Mean
Step 7: Calculate Between-Treatments Sum of Squares (SStreat)
Step 8: Check to be sure that SStot = SStreat + SSerror
PART 2: COMPUTE THE MEAN SQUARES
Step 1: Determine df
Note: Use df total as a check (df total=df treat+df error)
Step 2: Calculate the Mean Square Treatment (MStreat): F Numerator
Step 3: Calculate the Mean Square Error (MSerror): F Denominator
PART 3: COMPUTE F VALUE
PART 4: INTERPRET F VALUE
1. Are the means of the treatment groups the same?
2. If no (i.e. reject the null hypothesis), then which of the treatment means are different from each other?

Resource

Critical values of the F distribution (Links to an external site.)

Before you begin, please launch Microsoft Excel. In the video, Lloyd will be using Macintosh Excel 2011, so if
you are using a different version, you may need to learn on your own where certain commands and options
are located in your version.
Be sure to save the Excel spreadsheet file often as you build it while following the video tutorial and keep it in
a safe place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z_Xed-xg7E

As you build your Excel file when you watch the video it is very important to enter exactly the same student
scores as shown in the video. Here are easy to read screenshots of the final Excel screen shown in the
video: top-half screenshot
; and bottom-half screenshot
.

Here also are the student scores:


Participant Group

Posttest

90

80

70

75

80

70

60

50

45

35

30

30

Instructions
Computing an Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
After you have built your own Excel spreadsheet based on watching the video tutorial "Computing An
Analysis Of Variance (Anova): Excel Video Tutorial (1:09:39)," edit your spreadsheet to enter the following
scores for Group 3 (making sure that you keep the original scores for groups 1 and 2):

Group

Posttest

75

70

60

50

Suggestion: Choose to "save as" and give the spreadsheet a new name to show that it is the "quiz" version.
The reason is that you may want to use or review the original spreadsheet (with the original scores) at some
point in the future.
Answer the following question based on these new scores.

Lloyd's PowerPoints

01-Rieber-Introduction to Statistics.ppt

02-Rieber-Descriptive Statistics.ppt

03-Rieber-z scores.ppt

04-Rieber-Correlational Statistics.pptx

05-Rieber-Inferential Statistics.pptx

05a-Rieber-t test formulas.pptx

05b-Rieber-ANOVA formulas.pptx

Recommended Books

Lloyd's Recommended Textbook


No textbook is required for this course. However, if you want a full and detailed introduction to the concepts
and principles covered in this course, this is the textbook I strongly recommend purchasing:
Spatz, Chris. (2011). Basic statistics: Tales of distributions (10th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage.
I really can't say enough about this textbook. Of all the textbooks I've read and used over the years, this is
hands-down the most readable of them all. I had the good fortune to use the second edition over 30 years
ago and still have it and consult it (I bought a more recent edition around 2000). Even when I was taking
advanced statistics as part of my Ph.D., I would turn to this book over and over for reminders and refreshers
of the basics. You will notice that I use several examples from this textbook in this course (giving credit each
time). Although new copies are rather expensive (as are all college textbooks), you can find older editions for
very little cost on Amazon, etc.
(Also there is a Spatz e-guide of his book that is not too expensive on Amazon.co.uk that can be used with
Kindle or iPad)

Another Book Lloyd Recommends


If you want an entertaining and informative book about the history of statistics, I recommend the following:
Salsburg, David. (2001). The lady tasting tea: How statistics revolutionized science in the twentieth century.
New York: Henry Holt and Company.
I also enjoyed how Salsburg introduces and describes the prominent people from the history of statistics. You
get a good sense of the personalities of people like Karl Pearson, R.A. Fisher, William Gosset, Francis
Galton, Florence David, John Tukey, and Thomas Bayes.

Other Online Courses


Carnegie-Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative (Links to an external site.)
This is a wonderful resource for learning a variety of topics. The link I've provided is to the general catalog of
courses, as I thought everyone would like to see the range of topics covered (not just statistics). Scroll down
the and click on "Probability & Statistics."
Khan Academy - Probability & Statistics (Links to an external site.)
Coursera - Statistics One (Links to an external site.)
Offered by Princeton University; Statistics One is a comprehensive yet friendly introduction to statistics.
StatLearning: Statistical Learning (Links to an external site.)
Stanford University

Introduction to Statistics: Descriptive Statistics (Links to an external site.)


UC-Berkeley
Intro to Statistics (Links to an external site.)
Making Decisions Based on Data

Useful YouTube Videos


Statistics 101 with Brandon Foltz (Links to an external site.)
Lloyd highly recommends this video series. Foltz does an excellent job of explaining a wide range of
statistical concepts and principles.
Statisticsfun by (Links to an external site.)David Longstreet (Links to an external site.)
Joy of Stats from OpenLearn - http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/the-joy-stats (Links to an external
site.) This is an interesting series of video shorts (first shown as a BBC documentary) presented by
Professor Hans Rosling. (posted by Charlotte Ates, 7/7/14)
YouTube Tip
YouTube offers a HTML5 player (in addition to their Flash-based) that you can turn on by going here and
select HTML5 for default player:
https://www.youtube.com/html5 (Links to an external site.)
This option allows you to watch the videos at 1.5 or even 2 times the normal speed. Unfortunately, if you
choose this method, you cannot have better video resolution than 360 pixels.

Other Online Resources


OpenStax Statistics Book - This is free!
https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/introductory-statistics (Links to an external site.)
Statsoft Electronic Statistics Textbook: http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/ (Links to an external site.)
This is a good resource for a quick review of different types of analyses.
Saw this article's headline and first sentence, so thought I would share.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/money/investing/lies-damn-lies-and-investing-20130805-2r8j4.html
Collaborative Statistics (Links to an external site.)Illowsky and Dean, a Creative Commons OER (open
educational resource). Lots of great detail, videos, examples, etc.

Other Statistics packages/extensions - make sure they will work on your system/ios before trying to install
and remember to set an install point in Windows before installing.
Open Office
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_Statistical_functions (Links to an

external site.)
OPEN OFFICE CALC Statistics

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/r4calc-r-statistics-ooocalc (Links to an external

site.)
http://dean.serenevy.net/teaching/classes/Fall2007/M111-2/Statistics_in_OpenOffice.pdf (Links to an

external site.)
List of Statistical software packages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statistical_packages (Links

to an external site.)
Excel Resources
Windows Excel before 360- Analysis Toolpak

http://www.bing.com/search?

q=analysis+toolpak+excel+2010&qs=AS&form=QBLH&pq=analysis+too&sc=8-12&sp=2&sk=AS1 (Li
nks to an external site.)
MAC EXcel replacements

Solver for Excel for Mac: http://www.solver.com/mac (Links to an external site.)

StatPlus:mac LE: http://www.analystsoft.com/en/products/statplusmacle/ (Links to an external site.)

MAC Excel online tutorials: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/how-to/training/excel (Links to an external


site.)

Windows Excel online tutorials: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/training-courses-forexcel-2013-HA104032083.aspx (Links to an external site.)

Libre https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Statistics_Functions

Lifehacker: Excel shortcuts (Links to an external site.)

Lessons
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/math/stats/ (Links to an external site.)
Books- ebook

Probability and statistics http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook (Links to an external site.)

Excel Tips & Tricks


[If you know some good shortcuts or techniques, please share them here.]

How to create a bell curve-like chart in Excel (aka a frequency polygon, similar to a histogram)
Looked into how to create a frequency distribution of scores with Excel, a la a normal (bell) curve:
http://www.scu.edu/training/tipsandtricks.cfm?c=6783 (Links to an external site.)
This was produced by the Technology Training staff at Santa Clara University. (It was a little confusing at first
to figure out, so beware!)

Free replacement for Analysis Toolpak for Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011
In the 'Computing a t Test for a Correlated-Samples Design' video lecture, Prof. Rieber mentioned that the
Data Analysis Toolpak is no longer available free of charge for Excel for Mac 2011.
Fortunately, an alternative is available. AnalystSoft's StatPlus:mac LE is a free replacement of the Analysis
Toolpak. It is compatible with Excel 2004, 2008 and 2011. A Pro version is also available but it seems that
the free variant has most of the functions that were available in the Toolpak.
The Solver tool also becomes available after installing Service Pack 1 for Office for Mac 2011. Here's the link
to the Microsoft support page that shows how to install the Service Pack and enable Solver from the Add-Ins
menu: What happened to the Data Analysis Toolpak or Solver in Excel for Mac 2011? (Links to an external
site.)
Interestingly, on the same page, Microsoft is recommending AnalystSoft's StatPlus:mac LE (a competing
product) as replacement for the Toolpak.
And this is the link for downloading StatPlus:mac LE (Links to an external site.)
I installed both Solver and StatPlus:mac LE on a colleague's MacBook Air and conducted an ANOVA test of
the quiz values just to make sure everything works correctly. When it runs for the first time, StatPlus shows a
message box recommending an update to the Pro version, but that goes away for good with a single check.

Fun With Statistics:

This is a great discussion on causation versus correlation and how impossible it is to know anything for
certain. Planet Money Ep 453. (Links to an external site.)
Did you ever wonder how regression lines might be applied to your favorite TV show? Well, wonder no
longer. Courtesy of io9 (Links to an external site.).
For fun with correlation versus causation, check out Spurious Correlations (Links to an external site.).

Non-American Examples of Using Statistics


Yes, Lloyd's course examples of statistics are somewhat "American-centric." (Who really cares about
American baseball, anyway.) But, no worries, you can add your examples here! Perhaps you know of a good
link of how statistics is used in your country or community. Here's the place to share. See if you can explain
the statistics principle at work in 25 words or less. Extra points if the example involves an accordion.

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