Links - Binomial Distribution

This is a growing page of links which should provide some useful additional material for studying the Binomial distribution. Please let Neville Hunt know of any good links to add or of any which fail.

Lecture notes

	SurfStat by Keith Dear
	Virtual Labs
	Bret Larget's Math225 course notes

Examples and exercises

	Try out some multiple-choice questions from Simon Fraser University
	Dr Math has an example on stock prices
	CHANCE News contains several relevant articles - for example, Vol 5.03 relates to a Tom Clancy novel, while Vol 4.10 looks at the roots of languages
	Read about a Binomial application in cattle farming

Graphical calculator resources

	TI-83 User's Guide entry on the Binomial distribution
	The TI web-site contains some other useful resources such as an Airline booking simulation, but you will need to register before you can access them.

Java applets

	John Bohr's statistical distributions page
	Probability calculator by "Naras" at Stanford
	Normal approximation demo by Philip Stark at Berkeley
	Another Normal approximation demo by David Lane at Rice
	A simulation of Galton's Quincunx by Berrie Zeilman

Other resources

	How to calculate Binomial probabilities in Excel
	How to simulate Binomial data in Minitab