This page contains links to various web-based tutorials, as well as laboratory activities.  The tutorials are designed for self-paced learning.  The primary content is related to statistics.  The laboratory activities provide review of statistics to a specific content area.  These activities are useful for class activities.  These tutorials and lab activities are free for educational use.  Any feedback on these materials should be addressed to rowell@mtsu.edu.  Additions and updates to these tutorials and labs will be made periodically.

Minitab Tutorials

• Introduction to Minitab
  Note:  This is a PDF file and can be read using Adobe Acrobat Reader.  If you need to download the free Acrobat Reader, click here.

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Microsoft Excel Tutorials
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• Introduction to Excel
• Descriptive Statistics with Excel
• Making a Pie Chart with Excel
• Making a Bar Chart with Excel

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Graph Review

• Algebra Review of some Fundamental Graphs

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Regression Tutorials

• Tutorials for concepts and procedures of regression using Excel and Minitab.  

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Psychology Statistics Lab Activities
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• Power Point Presentation Overview for Joint Math Meeting, New Orleans, LA 01/13/01 
• Lab Manual: Title, Introduction and Contents Page
• Summary of Symbols Used  (a good study sheet)
• Introduction to Minitab and Descriptive Statistics
• Ethics in Psychology
• Correlation
• Simple Linear Regression
• 1-Sample Hypothesis Testing & Confidence Intervals
• Selecting Sample Sizes - 1 Sample
• 2-Sample Hypothesis Testing & Confidence Intervals
• Selecting Sample Sizes - 2 Samples
• One-way ANOVA
  

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Biostatistics Lab Activities
Note:  These are PDF files and can be read using Adobe Acrobat Reader.  If you need to download the free Acrobat Reader, click here.

• Power Point Presentation:  Overview of some lab activities
• Cicada Data Labs.  For electronic access to the data, click here.
• more to come soon

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