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Statistical Algorithms

Drag the blue line in either graph to make error (the red in the meter) smaller.

Interactive graphs give students an intuitive understanding of complex algorithms such as minimizing sums of squares in regression.

These continuously variable graphs replace the few static graphs of such algorithms possible in printed textbooks such as:

Regression exmaple from Just the Essentials of Statistics


Source: Just the Essentials of Elementary Statistics by Johnson and Kuby. © 1999, Duxbury Press. (p. 135)
 

© 1999, Duxbury Press