Neil J. Hatfield
Current Courses-Spring 2024
- Stat 461: Analysis of Variance. Check out the STAT461 Course FAQ (syllabus).
- Stat 597.005 Statistics Eduction: From Theory to Practice. Check out the STAT597 Course FAQ (syllabus).
Useful Readings
The following readings are some that I have been developing for a number of semesters and reflect my most recent thinking in the various areas. I tend to update these files periodically so you'll want to check the files here to see if you have the most recent. If you have constructive feedback, please feel free to send me your thoughts.
- Introduction to Meaningful Statistics
- What is Statistics?
- On the Units of the Sample Arithmetic Mean
- On Probability
- On Moments
- On Statistical Inference
Teaching Applets
The following are applets that I use in my teaching:
- Alternative First Day Activity
- Four Rooms
- Classifying Processes (v2)
- Fish Sampling
- People Sampling
- CPF/CDF Calculator 2.0
Past Courses
Pennsylvania State University
- STAT 184: Introduction to R-Fall 2022, 2023 (click to see syllabus)
- STAT 380: Data Science Through Statistical Reasoning and Computation-Fall 2023 (click to see syllabus)
- STAT 461: Analysis of Variance-Spring 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; Fall 2022, 2023
- STAT 592: Teaching Statistics-Fall 2021*, 2022, 2023 (click to see syllabus)
- STAT 597: Statistics Education Reserach Special Topics--Spring 2020*, 2022*, 2024*
* indicates co-teaching.
University of Northern Colorado
- MATH 550: Applied Probability and Statistics-Summer 2019
- MED 701: Quantitative Methods in Mathematics Education-Spring 2019
- STAT 150: Introduction to Statistics-Spring 2019
- MATH 550: Applied Probability and Statistics-Fall 2019
- STAT 422: Distributions for Actuarial Science (Guided Study)
- STAT 150: Introduction to Statistics-Fall 2019
Arizona State University
- STP 226: Elements of Statistics-Spring 2018
- STP 231: Statistics for the Biosciences-Spring 2018
- STP 420:Introductory Applied Statistics-Spring 2018
- STP 226: Elements of Statistics-Fall 2017, In-person
- STP 226: Elements of Statistics-Fall 2017, Online
- MAT 210: Brief Calculus-Fall 2017
- STP 420: Introductory Applied Statistics-Spring 2017
- STP 231: Statistics for the Biosciences-Fall 2016
- MAT170: Pre-calculus-Summer 2016, Sessions A and B
- STP 231: Statistics for the Biosciences-Spring 2016
- MTE 598: Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education I-Fall 2015, Grad TA
- STP 231: Statistics for the Biosciences-Spring 2014
- MAT170: Pathways Pre-calculus-Fall 2013
These courses all serve as an introductory course to Statistics. As is my trend in teaching statistics courses, this course focuses on integrating technology as well as modern approaches to Statistics. Students leaving this course will have a solid foundation of core concepts in Statistics that will serve them well in later courses. Students will work in groups to complete a semester long Data Analysis Project so that they have experience putting what they learn into practice, using real world data.
Brief Calculus, also known as Business Calculus, serves as a first course in a calculus sequence that focuses on applications of the core ideas in calculus in the business world.
The Summer 2016 Pre-calculus courses are the products of redesigning a research-based curriculum (Pathways to Pre-calculus) to emphasize co-variational and quantitative reasoning. During this course, students repeatedly had to reason about how different quantities' values co-varied in animations and video clips. Through the instructional sequence, students built and refined mathematical tools such as the Cartesian and Polar coordinate systems, graphs, and average-rate-of-change. Students learned how using this last tool could enable them to categorize different types of co-variation and build mathematical models that describe that co-variation.
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