StatSpace

Find and share vetted learning resources for teaching introductory statistics in any discipline

StatSpace brings together high-quality open education resources vetted by instructors from UBC and around the world, with the goal of supporting cooperation among statistics instruction experts and sharing resources that address common cross-disciplinary challenges of teaching in this area.

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Featured Resources

Sampling from a Normal Distribution

This web visualization demonstrates the concept of a sampling distribution of an estimate, using the example of a mean of a Normally distributed variable. It also reinforces the idea of a histogram.

Sampling distribution of the mean

This video explores the concept of a sampling distribution of the mean. It highlights how we can draw conclusions about a population mean based on a sample mean by understanding how sample means behave when we know the true values of the population.

Sampling distributions of the mean

This file contains a collection of clicker questions that target concepts on sampling distribution of the mean.

WeBWorK Question ECON 325 HW6 additional Q1

A WeBWorK question that assesses understanding of the sampling distribution of the sample mean and how it varies with sample size.

The math of networks: Random walks and Google PageRank

Random walks on networks, explored by simulation and calculations, with connection to Google PageRank