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Teaching Resources

Statistical teaching initiatives and resources around the world. See also Courses with Online Materials and Data Sets.

Australian Resources

• What is Statistics?. Lively case studies from science, finance and sport introducing visitors to statistical thinking. University of Melbourne.
• Chance and Data in the News. Articles illustrating statistical principles from the Tasmanian metropolitan daily newspaper, The Mercury, with discussions by Jane Watson of the University of Tasmania. A joint project of The Mercury, the University of Tasmania, and the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers.
• Surfstat Australia. An online text in introductory statistics. Keith Dear, Australian National University.

Directories of Resources

• Math Forum - Probability and Statistics. Links to teaching resources for K-12 and college level courses. Swarthmore College.

Statistical Blogs

• Simply Statistics. A statistics blog by Rafa Irizarry, Roger Peng, and Jeff Leek.
• Statistics by Jim. A teaching blog by Jim Frost.

Online Tutorials or Textbooks

• CAST. Computer-assisted statistics teaching. A comprehensive textbook on a computer. Douglas Stirling, Massey University.
• Electronic Statistics Textbook. An online textbook, with brief comments on a wide range of topics from basic to advanced, including variance components, neural networks, multidimensional scaling and so on. The emphasis is on techniques rather than concepts or mathematics. StatSoft Inc.
• HyperStat Online. A substantial introductory-level statistics book including power, factorial ANOVA, between and within-subjects ANOVA, chi-square and distribution-free tests. David Lane, Rice University.
• Introduction to Probability, Statistics, and Random Processes by Hossein Pishro-Nik. Interactive version of a probability textbook for undergraduate and first-year graduate students.
• Online Statistics Textbook by Jan de Leeuw, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Statistical Associates E-Books. The Statistical Associates "Blue Book" series on statistical and research methodology topics. Some e-books are free for download, others must be purchased through Amazon.
• Statistics Every Writer Should Know. A series of very user friendly beginning tutorials on statistics, suitable for school students as well as non-mathematics undergraduates. Robert Niles.
• Stat Trek. An online tutorial on probability, hypothesis testing and survey sampling, as well as some online probability calculators.
• StatLect. A collection of lectures on probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Interactive Demonstrations

• Probability by Surprise. Teaching by paradox. Graphics and animations for developed for teaching introductory probability. Susan Holmes, Stanford University.
• Virtual Laboratories in Statistics. A National Science Foundation funded project to develop interactive modules for introductory statistics. Kyle Siegrist, University of Alabama, Huntsville.

Video Series/CDs

• Against All Odds: Inside Statistics. Information about the video telecourse series. The Annenberg/CPB Project.
• Against All Odds: Detailed Timings. Timings of the vignettes in each video of the Against All Odds series. Essential for integrating the videos into a lecture series. Gordon Smyth, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
• Art of the Experiment. Information about the educational CD for sale through Amazon. Symynet.

Historical

• Earliest Uses of Symbols of Statistics. Why do we use rho for correlation, F for the F-ratio and t for Student's t etc? Jeff Miller, Gulf High School, Florida.
• Famous Statisticians. Pictures and short biographies. Jan De Leeuw, UC Los Angeles.

Journals

• Journal of Statistics Education. Includes links to teaching resources. American Statistical Association.
• Stochastik in der Schule. Probability in schools in Austria and Germany. Klagenfurt University. In German.
• STATS: The Magazine for Students of Statistics. American Statistical Association.
• Teaching Statistics, Blackwell Scientific (Oxford)

Blogs

• Stats Specialist.

General Resources

• Academic Assistance Access. Provides free tutorial assistance to students in a number of high school and college students using a mailing list format. There is a dedicated mailing list for statistics.
• Annenberg/CPB Projects Learner Online. Using telecommunications to improve learning. Corporation for Public Broadcasting with funding from the Annenberg School of Communications.
  • Statistics Exhibit: Polls: What do the numbers tell us. An online program about polling and surveys in the style of the Against All Odds video series.
• ASA Section on Statistical Education. Includes the newsletter of the section online.
• Berrie's Statistics Page. Illustrates some probability and statistics concepts, such as the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem, using short videos. Netherlands.
• Chance Database. This data base contains materials designed help teach a Chance course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course. The aim of a Chance course is make students more informed and critical readers of current news involving statistical issues as it appears in newspapers, journals and magazines. Laurie Snell, Dartmouth College.
• Case Studies in Statistics. Jan de Leeuw, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Learning and Teaching Support Network: Maths, Stats and OR. Includes the Allstat mailing list. Based at the University of Glasgow.
• EdStat News Archive. Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University.
• Electronic Encyclopedia of Statistical Examples and Exercises. Will contain real world examples of the abuses and uses of statistics. The current web site is a preview. Ohio State University.
• Free Stat Help. Help from a former statistics professor for students in college and graduate level statistics courses.
• Gary C Ramseyer's First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes. Gary Ramseyer, Illinois State University.
• Glossary of Statistical Terms. Howard Hoffman, Bryn Mawr College.
• International Association of Statistical Education. A section of the ISI.
• International Statistical Literacy Project. A project of the International Association of Statistical Education. Carol Blumberg and Nicole Machacek, Winona State University.
• Introductory Statistics Demonstrations. Series of animated demonstrations of basic statistics concepts. David Wallace, Ohio University.
• Mathematics Archives: Teaching Materials. A substantial collection of archives and links for teaching mathematics, including statistics. University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
  • Mathematics Archives: Lessons, Tutorials and Lecture Notes. An substantial annotated list of links to mathematics and statistics tutorials.
• MathLink. A Web based professional development program for high school mathematics teachers. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
  • Classroom Resources for Mathematics Teachers, Probability and Statistics. A series of elementary lessons in probability and statistics. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
• MendelWel. Resources for teachers and students interested in the origins of genetics, data analysis, probability. Roger Blumberg, Netspace.
• Random Statistical Quotes. John Behrens, Arizona State University.
• Sampling in Research. A tutorial on creating samples to obtain accurate research data. Cornell University.
• Simpson Paradox. A light-hearted essay. Alan Crowe.
• SMART: Statistics and Mathematics as Advanced Research Tools. A series of integrated modules (an `explorapaedia') for training scientists and research students in the biosciences in statistical techniques. A collaborative project coordinated by Mike Talbot, University of Edinburgh. Includes an extensive directory of other statistics education projects on the Web.
• Squeezed Books: Statistics Resources for Businesses and Educators.
• Statistical Instruction Internet Palette. A palette of resources for statistics students and instructors, including a data gallery, a data web, computing and graphing studios and an annotated formula gallery. John Behrens, Arizona State University.
  • Web Data
  • Data Gallery
  • Equation Gallery
• Statistically Speaking: a Dictionary of Quotations. Information about the book, with several example quotations. Carl Gaither and Alma Cavazos-Gaither.
• Statistics Education Bibliography. A large, partially annotated, list of references on teaching statistics compiled by Sashi Sharma and Andy Begg, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Online at the University of Perugia.
• StatsNotes: Learning Materials and Quizzes. Russel John, Mathematics and Statistics, Murdoch University, Australia.
• STATS: Statistical Thinking with Active Teaching Strategies. Development workshops conducted by the Mathematical Association of America for mathematicians who teach courses in introductory statistics. The goal is to teach statistical thinking with more data and concepts, less theory and fewer recipes. Project reports and data sets are available from workshops held at:
  • Colorado State University.
  • Dickinson College
  • University of the Pacific.
• Teaching and Learning Technology Programme. A UK wide program aiming to make teaching and learning more productive and efficient by harnessing modern technology. This link is to the central server at Heriot-Watt University. The program funds two statistics projects:
  • STEPS. Statistical education through problem solving. University of Glasgow.
  • Quercus. Tutoring package teaching statistics and Minitab to bioscientists. University of Strathclyde. Download the latest version.
• Teaching Materials for Biomedical Researchers. Frank Harrell, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, University of Virginia.
• What Every New Graduate Should Know. Department of Computer Science, University of Indiana.