About This Book
Purpose
The purpose of Teaching Elementary Statistics with JMP is to provide an introduction to JMP for teachers of elementary statistics. Just as statistics is data in a context, this book presents JMP in a context: teaching statistics. To accomplish this goal, I have chosen what I hope are examples of interesting data, and have interspersed JMP techniques and statistical analyses with thoughts from the statistics education literature.
Is This Book for You?
This book will be useful to all who are teaching statistics, but is specifically targeted at high school teachers of Advanced Placement Statistics and teachers of statistics in community colleges. Not infrequently, AP Statistics teachers and statistics teachers in community colleges are trained primarily as mathematicians, and are just beginning their journey into what is for them a new and exciting discipline. If you are beginning this journey, and even if you have progressed a bit, this book will help you with the tools, provide data sets for you and your students, and give you a sense of what teaching statistics and using great software is all about.
Scope of This Book
This book covers statistical techniques that would appear in a typical one-semester non-calculus based elementary statistics course. Specifically, the AP Statistics Course Description functioned as a gatekeeper for topics. Univariate and bivariate techniques are covered, as well as inference for means, proportions, slopes of regression lines, and categorical data.
JMP Typographic Conventions
As you proceed through this book, your attention will be directed back and forth from text to screen. The following typographical conventions will help you find your place in the text as you simultaneously attend to book, keyboard, mouse, and screen.
| Style name | Description | Style specifics |
| body | This font is used for most text. | Times New Roman, 10.5 point |
| italic | The italic font is used to identify new terms. | Times New Roman, italic, 10.5 point |
| bold | The bold font highlights items of special importance. | Times New Roman, bold, 10.5 point |
| JMPChoice | The JMPchoice style is used to indicate a selection from a JMP menu. Such sequences display as phrases separated by a greater than sign, for example, File → Save As. This style is also used to identify variable names and data table names. |
Arial, bold, 9.5 point |
| If you have set your JMP Preferences to something other than the default settings, some items might display differently on your screen. | ||
Software Used to Develop the Book’s Content
This book was written using JMP 8 with Windows 7. Users of Macs or those with Linux operating systems should see only minor deviations from the look and feel of the presentation in this book.
Data and Programs Used in This Book
Data and programs used in this book can be found on the author’s page at http://support.sas.com/publishing/authors/olsen.html.
Author Pages
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Comments or Questions?
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