Lab Manual

Exploring Elementary Statistics with Statcato

This laboratory manual is designed to accompany introductory statistics courses with the use of Statcato, a free software application for elementary statistics. It covers the major topics of such courses with detailed instructions on conducting statistical analysis using Statcato. Each lab consists of (1) using a published data set, generating random data, or collecting sample data from the student’s world, (2) using tools in Statcato to perform statistical analysis, and (3) interpreting computer-generated results and drawing conclusions.

This manual follows the structure of and incorporates modules from the book Collaborative Statistics, an open educational resource developed by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean (available at http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest).

If you have any suggestions or feedback, please contact Margaret Yau at myau@statcato.org.


Chapters (.pdf)Lab Report Templates
Preface 
Introduction to Statcato 
Data Collection and Sampling .odt .pdf
Descriptive Statistics .odt .pdf
Probability .odt .pdf
Discrete Random Variable - Binomial .odt .pdf
Continuous Random Variable .odt .pdf
Normal Distribution .odt .pdf
Central Limit Theorem .odt .pdf
Confidence Intervals--Single Population Mean .odt .pdf
Confidence Intervals--Single Population Proportion .odt .pdf
Hypothesis Testing--Single Population Mean .odt .pdf
Hypothesis Testing--Single Population Proportion .odt .pdf
Hypothesis Testing--Two Independent Population Means .odt .pdf
Hypothesis Testing--Two Independent Population Proportions .odt .pdf
Hypothesis Testing--Matched Pairs .odt .pdf
Hypothesis Testing--Single Variance .odt .pdf
Hypothesis Testing--Two Independent Population Variances .odt .pdf
Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit .odt .pdf
Chi-Square Test of Independence .odt .pdf
Linear Regression and Correlation .odt .pdf
One-Way ANOVA .odt .pdf