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Overview:: This website was created by professors and students to provide free, accessible statistical tools for educational purposes, helping users solve academic problems and learn statistical concepts. The platform provides tools for statistics, including descriptive analysis, probability tables, ANOVA, regression, and multivariate methods.
Type of Material:: Drill and Practice
Recommended Uses:: In-class activity, home assignment, and self study.
Technical Requirements:: Works on any browser that allows JavaScript
Identify Major Learning Goals:: The main goal of this site is to allow users to calculate statistics from data that are given.
Target Student Population:: High School and Basic Knowledge of Statistics.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:: Elementary statistics and basic math.

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Strengths:: This site offers a statistics calculator that let users work with univariate and multivariate data and include most of the charts and statistics which based on lower division statistics courses and some of the statistics that are covered in upper division courses.
Concerns:: None

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Strengths:: This site provides tabs for each type of statistics that can help students create examples tbased on the topics in their statistics classese. Students will be also able to use the calculator to analyze data.
Concerns:: If the site can a link to the information that is needed to understand the statistics that are produced, it would be helpful to all users. For example, under the One-Way ANOVA calculator, the student has to select “WITHOUT BLOCKS” or “WITH BLOCKS”, but many students do not know what this refers to.

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Strengths:: If the user know how the formatting should be done, the data entry and buttons shown are clearly labelled.
Concerns:: It would be helpful to have a data entry example shown for each of the types of statistics calculators.