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2. Addison Wesley Longman Internet Projects
   Addison Wesley Longman Internet projects for elementary statistics Grade: 10 - Post-secondary. Designed to complement chapters in an Addison-Wesley textbook on statistics. These simulations, demonstrations, and other activities are useful to anyone interested in statistics, not just users of that specific book. The site provides access to varied data sources and interactive graphical tools that can be used to analyze the data Understand statistics by analyzing real data and interacting with graphical demonstrations of statistical concepts. Simulations, demonstrations, and other activities are useful to anyone interested in statistics
3. Adventures in Statistics
   Although meant for the public schools ideas here would be useful in a non-majors statistic course.
4. Amazing Mathematical Object Factory
   The Amazing Mathematical Object Factory is a teaching tool which generates permutations, subsets and combinations by having the user define the parameters of discrete objects. The Object Server returns a list of all objects that satisfy those parameters.
5. ASA
   American Statistical Association
6. AP Statistics
   Use of the TI-83 in statistics
7. Balducci’s Actuarial Home Page
8. Ball Drop
   Ball Drop demonstrating the normal distribution curve
9. Berries Statistic Page
   The purpose of this page is to illustrate some statistical concepts using QuickTime movies and java applets.
10. Bureau of Labor Statistics
    Several of the most important sample surveys in the United States are conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
11. Chance
    The goal of Chance is to make students more informed, critical readers of current news stories that use probability and statistics.
12. CYTEL
    Innovative Software for Statistical Problems
13. Data to histogram Site Location
    Type in or upload a data set or give a URL, submit, and have a colored histogram that can be copied from the page. Also does polygons
14. Descriptive Statistic Introduction
15. Electronic Journal of Statistics Education
    EJSE has articles both about teaching statistics and a data archive. This journal can be found on the American Statistical Association's Web site
16. Gallery of Data Visualization: The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics
    Some examples of the Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics, with the view that the contrast may be useful, inform current practice, and provide some pointers to both historical and current work. Go from what is arguably the best statistical graphic ever drawn, to the current record-holder for the worst
17. Gallup Polling Organization
    The Gallup Organization conducts the Gallup poll; their site has excellent material on how polls are conducted.
18. Golden Ratio in Probability
19. History of Probability and Statistics
20. Hyperstat online
    An introductory-level book in statistics covering the basics of descriptive and inferential statistics. Each chapter has links to related instructional demos and free analysis programs
21. Internet Projects for Elementary Statistics
    Understand statistics by analyzing real data and interacting with graphical demonstrations of statistical concepts. Simulations, demonstrations, and other activities are useful to anyone interested in statistic
22. Introductory Statistics Course
    The authors purpose is to show an effective new approach to teaching the introductory statistics course. The author’s approach "gives students a lasting appreciation of the vital role of the field of statistics in empirical research." This paper contains 14,000 words and 114 references and is available over the Internet in two formats:
23. Links related to Statistics Education
    Large set of links to online statistical teaching material, courses, handouts, exercises, articles, datasets.
24. National Council on Public Polls
    Check policy statements "Principles of Disclosure" and "20 Questions for Journalists."
25. NCTM Statistic Standards
    A list of resources in statistics including lessons and useful data sets. The links are organized to follow the NCTM Standards Statistics goals which can be found on page 167 of the NCTM Standards..
26. New England Journal of Medicine
    Another site for randomized comparative experiments.
27. On Growth & Form: Learning Probability Concepts By "Doing Science"
    Analyzing fractal patterns in nature. In each module, students typically start with a hands-on activity in which they flip coins or roll dice to mimic the randomness involved in forming structures such as lightning bolts, coastlines, neurons, termite tunnels, bacterial colonies, root systems, forest growth, soil cracking, galactic distributions, mountain ranges, deltas, tides, clouds, DNA nucleotide sequencing, coral formations, and body organs. As repetitive coin flipping becomes tedious, students turn to computer simulations, which demonstrate how fundamentally random microscopic events can give rise to fractal macroscopic patterns. The programs can be downloaded right from this page
28. Polling Fiascos
    A short history of fouled polls
29. Polling Glossary
    A glossary of polling terms from Bias to Volunteer Error
30. Probability
31. Probability
32. Probability Tutorials
33. Sampling in Research
    This tutorial is a discussion on sampling in research it is mainly designed to equip beginners with knowledge on the general issues on sampling that is the purpose of sampling in research, dangers of sampling and how to minimize them, types of sampling and guides for deciding the sample size. For a clear flow of ideas, a few definitions of the terms used are given.
34. Secrets of Polling
35. Serious Statistical Secrets
    A guide for the statistically perplexed
36. Statistical Thinking Tools
    Good information on histograms
37. Statistics Canada
    Statistics Canada is the country's national statistical agency, with programs organized into three broad subject matter areas: demographic and social, socio-economic and economic. Under the Statistics Act, Statistics Canada is required to collect, compile, analyze, abstract and publish statistical information on virtually every aspect of the nation's society and economy.
38. Statistics Every Writer Should Know
    This easy-to-understand guide offers short lessons (with examples!) in basic mathematics for journalists and other writers
39. Statistic Index
    This is an index of statistic terms beginning with " Adaptive response" through "Variance" with very through explanations of the terms.
40. Statistics.com
    Information about statistics software (major packages like SAS, SPSS and S-PLUS, shareware and smaller packages too), as well as about statistics analysis, data analysis and short courses in statistics.
41. Stats calculators Site Location
    This site contains several statistical calculators for analyzing data. Most supply some data and most allow for you to input your own data
42. Resampling Stats
    Resampling (drawing repeated samples from the given data, or population suggested by the data) is a new method for the solution of confidence limits, hypothesis tests, and other everyday inferential problems. Resampling uses simulations in place of the complicated mathematics, formulas and tables of parametric and non-parametric tests.
43. TI 82 & 83 stats programs Site Location
    This is a site containing several statistical programs to be run on the TI 82 and TI 83. Many advanced statistical inference programs are available. After you download each program, you can use a graph link to import them into your calculator.
44. Titanic What can numbers Tell Us about her Fatal Voyage
    Using spreadsheets, databases, and graphs, secondary students will learn statistics about the "real" Titanic's passengers and crew, exploring them from a mathematical perspective.
45. Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data Guide for Instructors
    This is an extensive guide for users of Allan J Rossman’s text Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data.