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1. The Edge Effect

   03 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sean McNamara¹, Kiersten Newtoff², Kelly Livernoche², Allison Bell, Jeff Leips³, Gina Wesley², William Gretes⁴

   1. Community College of Baltimore County 2. Montgomery College 3. University of Maryland Baltimore County 4. Howard Community College

   This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4292/?v=1

2. Modified Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

   23 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

   AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships at NSF

   Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=2

3. Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: The Central Limit Theorem and a t-test

   09 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Paul Miller

   Everett Community College

   Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions and hypothesis testing using a simulation applet, elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3679/?v=1

4. Modified Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

   01 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

   AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships at NSF

   Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=1

5. Using Grassy Narrows in a Live Classroom with Clicker Questions and Interactive Histogram: Sampling Distributions, Probability, and Hypothesis Testing

   24 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jonathan Andrew Akin

   Northwestern State University of Louisiana

   Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions, p-values, and hypothesis testing. Using both simulated and real data for methylmercury level in fish populations, students will...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3249/?v=1

6. Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

   28 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Alida Janmaat¹, Pete Kaslik², Randall LaRue Moser Jr, Kevin David Simpson, Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo³

   1. University of the Fraser Valley 2. Pierce College 3. Alfred University

   Students are introduced to concepts of hypothesis testing using elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish population for methylmercury levels (using real and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2434/?v=1

7. SUMS4Bio - Video tutorials in math and stats for biology students

   22 Aug 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jeremy M Wojdak¹, Caleb Adams¹, Dan Metz¹

   Radford University

   Links to videos and pdf tutorials for core mathematical and statistical concepts used in biology

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/747/?v=1

8. To P or not to P?

   Collections | 29 Apr 2016 | Posted by Drew LaMar

   https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/introbiostats/collections/timeline

9. Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values

   Collections | 07 Mar 2016 | Posted by Drew LaMar

   https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/introbiostats/collections/in-the-news

10. Eat all the chocolate you want... and lose weight? ...well, maybe eat chocolate, get fat, and teach your students about false discovery rates

    16 Jul 2015 | Posted by Jeremy M Wojdak

    Here is an interesting blog post from John Bohannon, who made news in 2013 with his article in Science exposing the seedy underbelly of the open-access pay-as-you-publish journals.  This time...

    https://qubeshub.org/news/blog/2015/07/eat-all-the-chocolate-you-want-and-lose-weight-well-maybe-eat-chocolate-get-fat--and

11. SUMS4Bio - Video tutorials in math and stats for biology students

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    27 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Jeremy M Wojdak, Caleb Adams, Daniel Cole Metz

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/747This website features an array of short video tutorials on ideas covered in Radford University's Math4Bio and Stats4Bio courses. Some videos cover concepts, while...