Quercus: A Statistical Tutoring Package for Bioscience Students

Synopsis

Teaching material on how to use the statistical package Minitab in order to analyse experimental data and write reports. In 12 modules: using Quercus and variable types; Introduction to Minitab 1; Introduction to Minitab 2; graphical displays; measuring location; measuring variability; sampling distributions; confidence intervals; significance tests; correlation and regression; analysing qualitative data; analysis of variance. Approximately two hours of teaching material per module.

Series

Computer-Aided Learning Tools in Statistics and Modelling, Tltp Project

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Multimedia; Computer program. 3 floppy disks (PC Windows version only).

Year of production

1996

Availability

Sale; 1997 sale: £32.20 (+VAT) UK higher education

Notes

Available to UK higher education institutions.
Reviewed by Janet Roden in CLUES Newsletter No 17 (Jul 1996), p7.
Reviewed in ‘Mathematics Multimedia Courseware Review’ by Lindsay Aitkenhead (Sheffield Hallam University, 1997), pp43-4.

Documentation

Accompanying 40-page text.

Uses

Introductory statistics for life sciences and biosciences.

Subjects

Mathematics

Keywords

computer-assisted learning; mathematics teaching; statistics teaching; Teaching & Learning Technology Programme

Distribution Formats

Type

CD-ROM

Distributor

Name

BIDS

Email

bidshelp@bids.ac.uk

Web

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Phone

01225 826074

Fax

01225 826176

Address

University of Bath
Bath BA2 7AY