{"id":5709771,"date":"2019-01-05T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/?p=5709771"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:03:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T06:03:26","slug":"open-educational-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/open-educational-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Educational Resources for Statistics and Data Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OER at UH Manoa is growing and the Mathematics is participating with free online (and cheap hard copy) textbooks for <a href=\"https:\/\/oer.hawaii.edu\/project\/math-111-112\/\">MATH 111-112<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/course\/372\/\">MATH 372<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/home\/board\/Sam-Birns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" \/><br \/>\nThe MATH 372 textbook, <em>Statistics for Calculus Students<\/em>, is authored by Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/bjoernkh\/\">Bj\u00f8rn Kjos-Hanssen<\/a> and PhD student <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/people\/sbirns\/\">Samuel Birns<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5702541\" src=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first edition of the book was developed during Fall 2018. It is a supplement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openintro.org\/stat\/textbook.php?stat_book=os\">OpenIntro Statistics<\/a> (3rd Edition), a free textbook which describes calculus in a mathematics-rich but calculus-free way. Reading it, one will encounter many practical examples and probability calculations, but may never learn that the standard normal probability density function is<br \/>\n$$f_Z(z)=\\frac1{\\sqrt{2\\pi}}e^{-z^2\/2}.$$<br \/>\nMATH 372 is our junior-level elementary probability and statistics course and is intended for students who have already taken Calculus I and II. (Students who have taken Calculus III and IV can learn why the normal distribution has that $\\frac1{\\sqrt{2\\pi}}$ factor in <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/course\/471\/\">MATH 471<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/course\/472\/\">MATH 472<\/a>, our senior-level courses on the subject.)<\/p>\n<p>MATH 372 is projected to become a high-enrollment course as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.hawaii.edu\/\">Information &amp; Computer Sciences<\/a> starts to require it for their data science concentration.<\/p>\n<p>The textbook projects are funded by <a href=\"https:\/\/oer.hawaii.edu\/tag\/outreach-college\/\">Outreach College<\/a>\u00a0as one of their <a href=\"https:\/\/oer.hawaii.edu\/projects\/\">OER Grant Projects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10790\/4572\">Statistics for Calculus Students<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OER at UH Manoa is growing and the Mathematics is participating with free online (and cheap hard copy) textbooks for MATH 111-112 and MATH 372. The MATH 372 textbook, Statistics for Calculus Students, is authored by Professor Bj\u00f8rn Kjos-Hanssen and PhD student Samuel Birns. The first edition of the book was developed during Fall 2018. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/open-educational-resources\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open Educational Resources for Statistics and Data Science<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5709772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-courses-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5709771"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711464,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709771\/revisions\/5711464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5709772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/math.hawaii.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}