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TeachingDemos (version 2.12)

Demonstrations for Teaching and Learning

Description

Demonstration functions that can be used in a classroom to demonstrate statistical concepts, or on your own to better understand the concepts or the programming.

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2.12

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Artistic-2.0

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Greg Snow

Last Published

April 7th, 2020

Functions in TeachingDemos (2.12)

TkSpline

Plot a set of data in a Tk window and interactively move a line to see predicted y-values from a spline fit corresponding to selected x-values.
towork

Sample data downloaded and converted from a GPS unit
bct

Box-Cox Transforms
chisq.detail

Print details of a chi-squared test
dice

Simulate rolling dice
digits

Return the digits that make up an integer
char2seed

Convert a character string into a random seed
cal

Plot a month or year calendar
USCrimes

US Crime Statistics
clt.examp

Plot Examples of the Central Limit Theorem
cnvrt.coords

Convert between the 5 different coordinate sytems on a graphical device
dots

Create a quick dotchart (histogram)
evap

Data on soil evaporation.
ci.examp

Plot examples of Confidence Intervals
dynIdentify

Interacively place labels for points in a plot
mle.demo

Demonstrate the basic concept of Maximum Likelihood Estimation
cor.rect.plot

Plot a visualization of the correlation using colored rectangles
clipplot

Clip plotting to a rectangular region
%<%

Less than or Less than and equal operators that can be chained together.
ms.polygram

Symbol functions/data to be passed as symb argument to my.symbols
power.examp

Graphically illustrate the concept of power.
col2grey

Convert colors to grey/grayscale
lattice.demo

Interactively explore the conditioned panels in lattice plots.
faces

Chernoff Faces
coin.faces

Designs for coin faces for use with plot.rgl.coin
faces2

Chernoff Faces
outliers

Outliers data
loess.demo

Demonstrate the internals of loess curve fits
ldsgrowth

Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
SnowsCorrectlySizedButOtherwiseUselessTestOfAnything

Snow's Correctly Sized But Otherwise Useless Test of Anything
pairs2

Create part of a scatterplot matrix
plot2script

Create a script from the current plot
steps

Steps data
roc.demo

Demonstrate ROC curves by interactively building one
stork

Neyman's Stork data
put.points.demo

Demonstrate Correlation and Regression by placing and moving data points
rotate.cloud

Interactively rotate 3D plots
run.cor.examp

Interactively demonstrate correlations
run.hist.demo

Create a histogram and interactively change the number of bars.
fagan.plot

Create a Fagan plot to demonstrate Bayes Theorem and screening tests
petals

Play the Petals Around the Rose game
hpd

Compute Highest Posterior Density Intervals
rgl.Map

Plot a map in an rgl window
slider

slider / button control widgets
rgl.coin

Animated die roll or coin flip
subplot

Embed a new plot within an existing plot
triplot

Create or add to a Trilinear Plot
tkBrush

Change the Color and Styles of points interactively
gp.open

Alpha version functions to send plotting commands to GnuPlot
shadowtext

Add text to a plot with a contrasting background.
sliderv

Create a Tk slider window
panel.my.symbols

Draw Symbols (User Defined) on a Lattice Plot
spread.labs

Spread out close points for labeling in plots
my.symbols

Draw Symbols (User Defined) on a Plot
SnowsPenultimateNormalityTest

Test the uninteresting question of whether the data represents an exact normal distribution.
updateusr

Updates the 'usr' coordinates in the current plot.
vis.test

Do a Visual test of a null hypothesis by choosing the graph that does not belong.
z.test

Z test for known population standard deviation
simfun

Create a function to simulate data
sigma.test

One sample Chi-square test for a population variance
squishplot

Squish the plotting area to a specified aspect ratio
vis.boxcox

Interactively visualize Box-Cox transformations
tree.demo

Interactively demonstrate regression trees
vis.binom

Plot various distributions then interactivly adjust the parameters.
tkexamp

Create Tk dialog boxes with controls to show examples of changing parameters on a graph.
zoomplot

Zoom or unzoom an existing plot in the plot window
TkPredict

Plot predicted values from a model against one of the predictors for a given value of the othe predictors
TeachingDemos-package

Various functions for demonstration and learning.
HWidentify

Show label for point being Hovered over.
txtStart

Save a transcript of commands and/or output to a text file.
TkListView

Interactivly view structures of list and list like objects.
Pvalue.norm.sim

Simulate P-values
TkApprox

Plot a set of data in a Tk window and interactively move lines to see predicted y-values corresponding to selected x-values.
SensSpec.demo

Demonstrate Sensitivity, Specificity, PPV, and NPV
TkBuildDist

Interactively create a probability distribution.