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Little Apps: Center and Spread

Possibly the first statistic students encounter is the mean. In a statistics course, they soon discover its partner, the standard deviation. At the…

Little Apps: Displaying distributions

The concepts of variable and variation are central to statistics. Statistical models seek to explain or account for variation in a one variable by the…

Little Apps: Why use density?

The LittleApp on “Why use density?” focusses on helping students understand why we prefer to display distributions in the form of a density rather…