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The Student Workbook is free to students in pdf format.  Save the pdf file to the hard drive on your computer or print directly from this webpage. A self-extracting compressed file is also available for downloading.

Designed to supplement a basic statistics course, the Workbook uses an applied approach to learning statistics through a series of lessons that connect hand calculations to raw data, presentation tables, and interpretation. Workbook lessons start with an example and hand calculation exercise. Problems are provided to introduce how to apply the statistical technique to raw data and summary statistics. These problems require students to create and interpret tables. The appendix contains instructions for using the Workbook with SPSS. 

Hand Calculations

The objective of hand calculations is to introduce the basic underlying mathematics and concepts of an analytical technique. Unless instructed otherwise, round all calculations to three decimal places. You should also note that you can check your calculations with SumStats. There will be some variations since SumStats does not round to three decimal places (SumStats is more accurate).

Using AcaStat

The objective of SumStats problems is to show you how to conduct statistical comparisons when the raw data are not available. This is often the case if you only have summary statistics from a report produced by someone else. SumStats simply automates the hand calculations covered in the Workbook. The objective of AcaStat spreadsheet problems is to connect hand calculations using summary statistics to the more common practice of analyzing raw data with statistical software. If you do not have AcaStat, these exercises can be used with other statistical software to include SAS, SPSS, STATA, etc.  The Workbook Appendix includes instructions for SPSS.

Workbook Download

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File Name File Size Date Comment
pdf.bmp (1398 bytes)Workbook.pdf 385k 7/5/08 Version 2.2
pdf.bmp (1398 bytes)Workbook.pdf 405k 12/13/08 Version 3.0

 

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