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Library Video Databases

The following library databases can be accessed from the Databases page.

Films on Demand - Provides streaming films from sources such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences and Cambridge Educational.
Kanopy - Provides streaming videos on a variety of subjects; includes titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.
Alexander Street Videos - Multidisciplinary collection contains thousands of videos.

Library Streaming Videos for Statistical Methods Courses

What Is Statistics? Against All Odds: Inside Statistics
Films on Demand (6 min)
Statistics is the art and science of gathering, organizing, analyzing and drawing conclusions from data. Without rudimentary knowledge of how it works, people are ill-equipped to make informed judgments and evaluations of a wide variety of things encountered in daily life.
Introduction to Statistics and the Relative Frequency Histogram
Films on Demand (29:12 min)
After concisely defining the purpose of statistics, section one of this program uses Five-Card Charlie’s Fuzzy Dice Cola to examine the concepts of population and sampling and to catalogue the elements of statistical problems. In section two, data derived from the National Martyr Competition provides an opportunity to set up a relative frequency histogram, which involves classes and their widths, boundaries, frequencies, and relative frequencies.
Data mining: Big data's increasing challenge and payoff
Films on Demand (24:47 min)
This program explores the methods, processes, and key functions of data analysis with help from eye-catching graphics and interviews with industry experts.

Internet Videos for Statistical Methods

These videos are freely available online.