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Why Use Statistics?
Explains the Importance of Statistics to Science StudentsThis series was produced specifically to highlight the relevance of statistics and to teach students the basic statistical methods. The programs use sequences of "live action" video to illustra...(more details) |
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The Passionate Statistician: Florence Nightingale
In this historical reenactment, Florence Nightingale uses applied statistics to disprove the medical assumptions of her day. Using fatality counts from the Crimean War, Nightingale develops a progressive series of statistical diagrams that reveal sta...(more details) |
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Using Samples
This program begins with an explanation of the difference between a Population and a Sample, and the reasons why samples are so important in estimating data relating to populations too large or too impractical to be measured in their entirety. The pr...(more details) |
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Statistical Models in Medicine
In this program, statisticians in Barcelona use statistical models to trace the cause of asthma outbreaks. Data gathered from hospital admission records is placed on a time series clock, from which times, frequency, and general locations of outbreaks...(more details) |
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Bernoulli Trials
This program examines the binomial theorem and Pascal's triangle. The binomial distribution formula is derived from the classic coin toss and applied to Bernoulli trials and typical situations that involve repeated trials, such as multiple-choice exa...(more details) |
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