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The development of statistical packages such as SPSS and BMPD has altered the practice of statistics during the past two decades.
Such systems tend to have powerful numeric and graphic features but lack symbolic computing capabilities. By contrast, computer algebra systems provide a rich environment for mathematical manipulations but lack many features that are essential for statistical analysis and for probability and statistics instruction.
These authors have developed a supplement to the Maple computer algebra system of approximately 130 procedures that gives us both worlds: some statistical analysis and also explorations within a rich mathematical environment.
The combination of Maple V, this laboratory manual, and the supplementary Maple V procedures provide the basic tools for enhancing student learning in a calculus-based probability and statistics course. In biology, synergism occurs when two (or more) substances or organisms achieve an effect of which each is individually incapable. Maple V, with the statistical procedures that the authors have created, has similar potential for enhancing student understanding and learning.
The central objective of these laboratory exercises and the accompanying Maple procedures is to improve students' understanding of basic concepts. This is done in several ways namely with: animations, symbolic and theoretical solutions, simulations, explorations of models, development of insight and statistical computation.
Contents: Summary and Display of Data, Probability, Discrete Distributions, Continuous Distributions, Sampling Distribution Theory, Estimation, Tests of Statistical Hypotheses, Linear Models, Quality Improvement Through Statistical Methods, Nonparametric Methods, Multivariate Distributions, Theory of Statistical Inference;
A Brief Introduction to Maple; The Statistics Supplement to Maple; Table of Random Numbers. |
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Authors: Karian, Z.A., Tanis, E.A. Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-130-21536-8, 1999 Language: English |
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