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About me
My name is John Grosberg. I graduated from Arizona State University
with a Master's Degree in Electronics Engineering more years ago than I
would like to say. I've been developing software for over 30 years.
Somehow I never took a course in Statistics, but always had a bit of a
fascination with the subject and had studied some introductory books on
my own. When I happened on Julian Simon's book Resampling: the New
Statistics,
it was clear to me that here was a truly different approach to teaching
and understanding statistics. Simon presented statistics from the
viewpoint of simulation rather than calculation. No need to memorize
formulas or use tables. Formulas and tables are still good and useful;
it's just that after learning statistics via simulation they are much
more meaningful and it's easier to know when they apply and when they
don't. In addition, simulation can be used in cases where there are no
formulas. I found Simon's approach so fruitful that I wanted to help
make it available to others.
I have written other programs unrelated to Statistics101 that
you might be interested in. They are written in Java, as is Statistics101,
and should run on any system that has Java
installed:
ChordSmith:
This program transposes musical song sheets (chords + lyrics) into
different keys. The song sheets may be in ChordPro format or in a
two-line format. It can also convert between the two-line format and
ChordPro in both directions.
OODocBatchConverter:
Have you ever had a bunch of files in one program's format that you
needed to be in another program's format? This program converts any
number of files from one or more formats, such as ".doc" or ".rtf", to
another, such as ".pdf". It isn't limited to word processing files. It
can do any conversion that OpenOffice.org can perform because it uses
OpenOffice.org to do the actual conversion. Without OODocBatchConverter
you would have to convert the files one at a time. OpenOffice.org is an
excellent office suite that includes a word processer (Writer), a
spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation program (Impress), a drawing program
(Draw), and a database program (Base), all for no cost.
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Statistics101
Tutorials
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Tutorials (700kb) Shows the main features of the Statistics101 program.
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Command
Summary Gives a one-line description of each of the Resampling
Stats commands.
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User's Guide to Statistics101 (HTML) Describes
the Statistics101 program and all the Resampling Stats
commands in full detail. (Also included with the program download.)
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Examples:
Typical introductory Statistics class examples solved using Resampling
Stats instead of formulas and tables.
More Examples:
Originally from Peter Bruce's website showing a variety of statistical
problems solved using Resampling Stats. These will all work in the Statistics101
program. Used with permission.
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Contact
me if you have any questions or comments about Statistics101,
or if you find a bug.
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