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AP Statistics at the College Board :

- The College Board's official AP Statistics page. Course description, sample exam questions, teacher resources and contact information.
Business Statistics :

- Covers averages, normal distribution, best curve fit and skewness. Includes resource links.
Center for Statistics Education :

- The American Statistical Association sponsors educational resources for K-12 and above. ASA's LearnStat program provides continuing education for professional statisticians and educators.
Computer-Assisted Statistics Teaching (CAST) :

- A complete web-based course in introductory statistics. Registration required.
Curve Fit :

- Beginner's guide to nonlinear regression. Emphasizes how to interpret results.
The Data and Story Library :

- Online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. The goal is to provide data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find interesting, real-world examples.
DISCUS :

- Discovering Important Statistical Concepts Using Spreadsheets. Uses Excel spreadsheets to investigate statistical concepts.
Intro Stat: EPR Approach :

- This site contains information about the Entity-Property-Relationship (EPR) approach to the introductory statistics course by Donald Macnaughton.
Introduction to Mathematical Statistics :

- Lecture notes from a year-long course in mathematical statistics.
Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications by David Stockburger :

- An online, searchable introductory statistics text. By David Stockburger of Southwest Missouri State University.
Intuitive Biostatistics :

- Harvey Motulsky, OUP (1995). Site for the book, with online extracts (PDF).
K-12 Statistics Education :

- Resources in statistics including lessons and useful data sets.
Number Watch :

- Monitors the media in search of misleading numbers in news, politics and science.
Numeracy in the News :

- Features sections on data collection and sampling, creating graphs, probability and inference. Also, includes special topic articles and teacher spreadsheet programs.
Primer in Statistics :

- Covers mean, mode, median, standard deviation, area approximation, charts and testing for normality.
Resources in Statistics, Quantitative Methods and Experimental Design :

- Statistics-related exercises and humour, for courses from high school to graduate level.
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics :

- This resource for teaching statistics includes java simulations, case studies, an online text, and an analysis lab.
SAS JMP :

- Tutorials for SAS's JMP Statistical Analysis Software.
Seeing Statistics :

- Tutorial using graphs to illustrate concepts. Includes glossary of terms. Online purchase.
StatiBot :

- An on-line expert system for finding statistical tests appropriate to a dataset.
Statistica :

- Book, with worked examples and courses are specially designed for the non-mathematicians. Includes excerpts and ordering information.
Statistical Data Analysis :

- Tutorial describes time series analysis, popular distributions, and other topics.
Statistical Home Page (David Howell) :

- The teaching of parametric and nonparametric statistics. It includes examples, content, lecture notes, and ideas on teaching.
Statistics In A Day :

- A short course in data analysis. A 70 page book designed for a one-day workshop/course in data analysis. A number of versions are available, suitable for different groups of people. Ideas explained in simple terms without technical details and formulas. Uses XLStatistics.
StatNotes: Online Textbook in Statistics :

- Graduate-level text by David Garson of North Carolina State University. Especially well suited for social sciences.
STEPS: STatisical Education through Problem Solving :

- A program for teaching statistics through problem so students will recognize its applications. Free CBL software with modules in pyschology, biology, geography and business. Glossary of statistical terms.
Teach/Me - Data Analysis :

- HTML-based textbook with integrated statistical package and embedded interactive examples allowing the user to experiment with various models and methods. On-line purchase.
NYTimes.com - The Odds of That :

- Long article discussing examples of happenings which appear at first glance to be related, but are not. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.] (August 11, 2002)