Statistics Through Applications
Course Date: Jan 8 - Feb 6, 2004
(equivalent to 15 college contact hours)
$165 for school teachers, nurses and other medical personnel/$265
otherwise
($50 discount for each subsequent enrollee from the same institution)

Aim of the course is to provide an easy introduction to statistics and
statistical terminology through a series of practical applications.
Once you've completed this four-week on-line interactive course you'll
be able to summarize data, interpret reports and newspaper accounts
that use statistics and probability, and review plans for surveys and
experiments.

Who Should Take This Course: Anyone who encounters statistics in
their work or is responsible for teaching basic statistical concepts.
This first course in statistics requires no prior training in the
subject. The only mathematics you need is arithmetic. Software is
provided.

Organization of the Course - The course takes place over the Internet
at statistics.com. Course participants will be given access to a
private bulletin board, on which they will receive course materials.
The board will also serve as a forum for discussion of ideas and
problem solving. Resampling Stats software is provided for the
duration of the course and you'll be given step-by-step instructions
in its use.

The course is scheduled to take place over four weeks. Demands on
participants' time including software use and interaction with
instructor are equivalent to four contact hours per week. To obtain
course credit and a certificate of completion, all exercises must be
completed.

At the beginning of each week, participants receive the relevant
material, in addition to answers to exercises from the previous
session. During the week, participants are expected to go over the
course materials and work through exercises. Discussion among
participants is encouraged. The course leader will provide answers and
comments on set weekdays.

To enroll - You may register for this course by going to our payment
site and entering your credit card information.

http://www.statistics.com/content/co...ats/index.html
Register for "Statistics Through Applications" now!

Course Program -
The four lectures cover the following topics.

An Introduction to Statistics Through Applications

I Basic Concepts
Variation
Samples and Populations
Probability

II Summarizing Your Data
Types of Data
Parameters and Parameter Estimates
Mean and Median
The Bootstrap

III Testing a Hypothesis
Two-Sample Comparison
Bootstrap
t-test
Interval Estimation

IV Surveys and Experiments
Estimating a Proportion
Independence
Four Rules of Experimental Design
A Survey
An Experiment

The Instructor: Dr. Phillip Good, an applied statistician and
graduate of the program in mathematical statistics at UCBerkeley, is
the author of Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them)
(Wiley, 2003 with James Hardin), as well as Resampling Methods
(Birkhauser, 2nd ed, 2001), Permutation Tests (Springer, 2nd ed,
2000), Manager's Guide to Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials
(Wiley, 2002), and Applying Statistics in the Courtroom (CRC, 2001).
He has given tutorials at the Joint Statistical Meetings (U.S.) and
Deming Conference, lectured in Belgium, France, Holland, Ireland, and
Spain, and was a traveling lecturer for the American Statistical
Association. This is his 3rd year of providing on-line interactive
courses for statistics.com. This course is based on the 3rd edition
of his introductory college statistics text Resampling Methods.

http://www.statistics.com/content/co...ats/index.html
Register for "Statistics Through Applications" now!