[nabs-l] Locating a standard normal distribution table

[Ashley Bramlett]

I have not had to read stats tables. But here is what I've done with a 
reader for other tables.
Cindy,
You are right in that having a table with hundreds of cells in braille is 
not practical.
What I do is find what I need to understand or look up. Example from 
chemistry; say the table had columns listing chemicals, down the rows were 
the chemical formulas. I would ask someone to read the column headings If 
that was too much, I'd ask for a sampling or the main ones. Then I direct 
them what row to read. Another way to find what you need in a table is to 
have an electronic copy. Then just use the find command, control f, to find 
it.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cindy Bennett
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 8:47 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Locating a standard normal distribution table

I thikn it would be great to get your hands on tactile representations
of the distributions that the various significance tests create. I
took AP stats in high school, and was thus lucky enough to have my
textbook in braille with the tactile representations. Therefore, I
unfortunately cannot give you any informatoin as to where to find
these representations or brailled tables. My braille book also had the
tables you are speaking of, and I found that it was cumbersome and
that it took a lot of unnecessary time for me to navigate the tables.
I agree that it is important to have a strong grasp of the tables so
that you can tell a reader how to read the tables, but I feel that the
day to day time in statistics will be better spent understanding
concepts and working formulas than in perusing the tables. They are
huge tables with hundreds of values, and if you ever use statistics in
a job setting, you will undoubtedly do the computations on computer
software that will eliminate the need for tables anyway.

Cindy

On 2/14/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
> try APH, www.aph.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anjelina
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 5:10 PM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] Locating a standard normal distribution table
>
> Good evening list,
> Does anyone know where I could find a Braille standard normal distribution
> table?
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Anjelina
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Cindy Bennett
B.A. Psychology, UNC Wilmington

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