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

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