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• - A complete web-based course in introductory statistics. Registration required.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Lecture notes from a year-long course in mathematical statistics.
  
• - An on-line expert system for finding statistical tests appropriate to a dataset.
  
• - This site contains information about the Entity-Property-Relationship (EPR) approach to the introductory statistics course by Donald Macnaughton.
  
• - The College Board's official AP Statistics page. Course description, sample exam questions, teacher resources and contact information.
  
• - Tutorials for SAS's JMP Statistical Analysis Software.
  
• - This site contains a variety of pages related to the teaching of parametric and nonparametric statistics. It includes examples, content, lecture notes, and ideas on teaching.
  
• - Covers mean, mode, median, standard deviation, area approximation, charts and testing for normality.
  
• - Based at Nottingham Trent University. Aims to promote the improvement of statistical education and thinking at all levels.
  
• - Links related to statistics education: online teaching material, courses , handouts, exercises, articles, datasets, and other useful links. Collected by Juha Puranen from the Department of Statistics at University of Helsinki.
  
• - This resource for teaching statistics includes java simulations, case studies, an online text, and an analysis lab.
  
• - Textbook offers examples and problems, along with explanations on how to solve them. Includes table of contents and sample views.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Long article discussing examples of happenings which appear at first glance to be related, but are not. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]
  
• - Monitors the media in search of misleading numbers in news, politics and science.
  
• - Graduate-level text by David Garson of North Carolina State University. Especially well suited for social sciences.
  
• - Tutorial using graphs to illustrate concepts. Includes glossary of terms. Online purchase.
  
• - Online, introductory statistics course notes. Includes an extensive glossary, interactive exercises, javascript probability tables and some java applet animations.
  
• - Statistics-related exercises and humour, for courses from high school to graduate level.
  
• - Discovering Important Statistical Concepts Using Spreadsheets. Uses Excel spreadsheets to investigate statistical concepts.
  
• - Comprehensive directory of Statistics web resources from the CTI Centre for Statistics, University of Glasgow.
  
• - The American Statistical Association sponsors educational resources for K-12 and above. ASA's LearnStat program provides continuing education for professional statisticians and educators.
  
• - Harvey Motulsky, OUP (1995). Site for the book, with online extracts (PDF).
  
• - Tutorial describes time series analysis, popular distributions, and other topics.
  
• - An interactive environment for teaching undergraduate statistics. Java applets demonstrate properties and concepts of statistics. Requires Java enabled browser.
  
• - Beginner's guide to nonlinear regression. Emphasizes how to interpret results.
  
• - Covers averages, normal distribution, best curve fit and skewness. Includes resource links.
  
• - HTML-based textbook with integrated statistical package and embedded interactive examples allowing the user to experiment with various models and methods. On-line purchase.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Features sections on data collection and sampling, creating graphs, probability and inference. Also, includes special topic articles and teacher spreadsheet programs.
  
• - Teachers and students of probability and statistics will find others who share their interests at the sci.stat.math discussion list.
  
• - An interactive module covering basic probability, random variables, moments, distributions, data analysis including regression, moving averages, exponential smoothing, and clustering. Defense Acquisition University.
  
• - An online, searchable introductory statistics text. By David Stockburger of Southwest Missouri State University.
  
• - Book, with worked examples and courses are specially designed for the non-mathematicians. Includes excerpts and ordering information.
  
• - Resources in statistics including lessons and useful data sets.