Stat Crunch is a web-based
statistical software to help students with some of the calculations that need
to be completed for statistical problems. Stat Crunch software is included with
your Pearson textbook. Therefore, there is no additional cost to utilizing stat
crunch.
1. Once in your statistics course in MyFIRE, select the Content
& Assessments tab at the top of the page in the navigation bar.
2. Once on the content page, locate and select the MyMathLab
Textbook and Resources module on the left side of the page under the table
of contents.
3. When the page refreshes, scroll down the page and locate
Stat Crunch.
4. Select Stat Crunch.
5. When the page refreshes, the Stat Crunch software becomes
available. There are three options available to you.
a. View the data sets from
your textbook - this
option allows you to compute homework from the statistics course.
b. Visit the Stat Crunch
website - This
option allows you to compute statistical data that is not included within the
textbook.
c. Continue using Stat Crunch - This option allows you
to continue using the Stat Crunch statistical software after your course has
ended. To use this option, the purchase of the extended access will need to be
processed through the Stat Crunch website.
6. Select data sets from your textbook.
7. When the page refreshes, a list of the textbook data sets
will be available. Locate and select the desired data set.
8. Once a data set has been selected, Stat Crunch will open
and the data set will be available within a spreadsheet view. Within this view,
there are multiple options:
a. StatCrunch- This option allows you
to learn more about Stat Crunch, show or hide results, upload a new session,
and download your session.
b. Applets- This option allows you
to add various statistical functions to the data set.
c. Edit- This option allows you
to choose various edit functions to apply to the data set.
d. Data- This option allows you
to manipulate the data set in various ways.
e. Stat- This option provides
more statistical functions that can be applied to the data set
f. Graph- This option allows you
to add various graph functions to the data set.
g. Help- This option allows you
to access various help options including getting started tutorials, examples,
Youtube videos, keyboard shortcuts, and a link to contact the support team for
technical difficulties.
h. MyStatCrunch- This option allows you
to access all of your data, groups, surveys, results, and reports.
9. Each time you are ready to leave the Stat Crunch software, save the data set (under the Data tab) before closing the browser page.