preliminary material notes
pages i-vi (pdf, 25K)
slides 1-9: how
random is the wor
part introductions 6
pages (pdf, 19K)
slides 1-9: how
random is the wor
tutorial slides
overview slides i-vi (pdf, 16K)
slides 1-9: how
random is the world - raindrops and coin tossing
slides 10-14:
from the mouths of babes - uniformity vs. randomness
randomness slides 1-14 (pdf,
128K)
slides 1-9: how
random is the world - raindrops and coin tossing
slides 10-14:
from the mouths of babes - uniformity vs. randomness
finding things out slides 15-25
(pdf, 129K)
slides 15-18:
seeing through randomness, summing
slides 19-25:
bias and independence
measures and variability slides 26-47
(pdf, 115K)
slides 26-33:
mean, median and square people?
slides 34-47:
sqrt(n) behaviour, variability of variability
proving things slides 48-74 (pdf,
143K)
slides 48-67:
significance is not importance - what does it prove?
slides 68-74:
proving equality ? confidence intervals
experiments: design and test slides
75-99 (pdf, 57K)
slides 75-90:
what can go wrong, paired tests
slides 91-99:
kinds of variable, parametric and non-parametric tests
experiments in HCI slides 100-112
(pdf, 27K)
hands on - 9 worsksheets
(pdf, 55K)
7 common errors (html only)
-
"Empirical methods: experimental evaluation"
- extract from chapter 11 (pages 416-427) of: Human-Computer
Interaction second edition, A. Dix, J. Finlay, G. Abowd and R.
Beale, Prentice Hall, 1998
not available online, but see www.hcibook.com
for more information
statistics books - annotated list
(html) and short review
(pdf, 100K)
