Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper C012

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Integrating Technology in a Statistics Course for a Special Program at Florida International University

Ramon Gomez

Florida International University

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ABSTRACT

A special undergraduate program for selected biology majors was recently inaugurated at Florida International University. The curriculum emphasizes science, mathematics, and statistics. A statistics course was implemented for this program integrating PowerPoint, a statistical software (SPSS ), and data from biological and biomedical studies. This didactic experience is discussed here.

Keyword(s): statistics, applications, software