Decaying Dice by Rosamund Purcell
Dice contributed by Ricky Jay to the
Museum of Jurassic Technology

• Syllabus, Fall 2011-12 The text and basic course outline will remain the same for Spring 2012. Check back for changes.

• Philip Stark -- online statistics text

• Michael Wichura has a set of handouts for a course based on Freedman, Pisani and Purves. They are an excellent way to review for an exam.

• The R statistical language
  You can download the program and some supplementary files at the link above.
  This replaces the previous link, The R programming language , hopefully with an easier to follow set of steps to install the program.

• Links to problems, sample questions and review material for each unit:
  • UNIT I -- Descriptive Statistics - Chapters 3-7

  • UNIT II -- Correlation and Regression - Chapters 8-12

  • UNIT III -- Probability - Chapters 13-17

  • UNIT IV -- Sampling and Confidence Intervals - Chapters 18-23.

• The Importance of Statistics
  • Hal Varian on statistics and jobs See especially the video interview with Varian. Segment 4 is the most relvant one for this course.
  • For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics , by Steve Lohr, New York Times, August 6, 2009.
  • The Pirana and us by Mark Liberman, Language Log.

• Inspirational Music:
  • Statz 4 Life, by the Statz Rappers of the University of Oregon.
  • Mark Glickman's Music Page contains more advanced tunes, such as:
    • Statisfaction (as in "I can't get no...")
    • Probability Man
    • ANOVA Man

• Notes on items of interest: recommended supplementary reading, news items, and odds and ends.

• Homework from a previous text, but problems are mostly self-contained (and mostly relevant to the final two units).

• Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business online video course, Berkeley, Spring 2009, using the Freedman, Pisani and Purves text. Instructor: Fletcher H. Ibser.

Useful Statistics Websites

Lisp-Stat and other software

• Lisp-Stat Luke Tierney's page at the University of Iowa.

• XFiles.zip The program (my code added to Tierney's) is out there (actually in the zipped file). Updates to the EcLS program; download to the ecls\xfiles directory and unzip. (Last update: Nov. 17, 2010)

• STEPS Software for teaching statistics (based on Lisp-Stat)

• Arc
  Statistical program based on Lisp-Stat, by Sanford Weisberg and R.Dennis Cook.

• Forrest Young
  Vista statistical system based on Tierney's Lisp-Stat.

• Frederic Udina
  Kernel density estimators in Lisp-Stat.

• R project , the most powerful freeware statistical program.
  Rweb, by Jeff Banfield, allows you to try it out online.

• Stata
  My favorite commercial statistical program.

From CauseWeb
Cartoon by J.B. Landers. Used with permission.

Gallery of Statistics Jokes by Gary C. Ramseyer.

• Marriner Eccles
  • Marriner Eccles and the New Deal
  • Marriner Eccles and the Treasury-Fed Accord
• Goon Show Eccles
  • The Goon Show
  • What Time Is It, Eccles?
    MP3 recording; Spike Milligan as Eccles, Peter Sellers as straight man.
  • The Goons: Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers
• Clancy Eccles
  • Clancy Eccles
    Biography of the reggae singer
  • Feel the Rhythm by Clancy Eccles
• Henry Eccles
  • Music for Two
    Album by Bela Fleck (banjo) and Edgar Meyer (bass), featuring Sonata in G minor (look for Largo and Allegro Vivace, tracks 13 and 14).