Lessons

Narrated units for a first course in statistics

How these work

Each unit is a complete lesson: a narrated walkthrough you can pause and replay, figures built to be manipulated rather than just looked at, and a short check at the end. Open one and it talks you through the section; choose Present instead and the narration stays off, which is the version to put on a projector.

Sections follow Elementary Statistics, but nothing here depends on having that book.

Units

Sections 1.1 & 1.2 46 slides

Sampling & Types of Data

Why a sample has to be random, what goes wrong when it isn't, and how to tell a qualitative variable from a quantitative one.

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Sections 2.1 & 2.2 44 slides

Graphical Summaries

Frequency tables, bar graphs and histograms — and how the choice of class width changes the story a histogram tells.

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Sections 3.1 & 3.2 38 slides

Measures of Center and Spread

Mean against median, and why deviations get squared before they are averaged.

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Sections 3.2 & 3.3 38 slides

Measures of Spread and Measures of Position

Standard deviation and the Empirical Rule, then z-scores and quartiles for locating a single value within a distribution.

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Sections 4.1 & 4.2 26 slides

Least Squares Regression and Correlation

What r measures, what it misses, and where the line of best fit comes from.

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Section 5.1 25 slides

Basic Concepts of Probability

Sample spaces, the long-run view of probability, and the places intuition about chance goes wrong.

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Section 6.1 26 slides

Random Variables

Probability distributions and expected value, ending with the airline that deliberately sells more tickets than it has seats.

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Section 6.2 33 slides

The Binomial Distribution

When the binomial applies, when it does not, and how to compute with it without reaching for a table.

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More on the way

Units for the normal distribution, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing are still being built. In the meantime, those chapters are covered by the interactive activities.