Resource Library

A searchable database of approximately 600 applets for teaching introductory statistics topics, including graphical displays, descriptive statistics, probability concepts, random variables, sampling and sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, chi-square tests, correlation and regression, time series and forecasting, decision analysis, and quality control charts. Applets are arranged by topic and intended use. Information on each applet includes source and url as well as a brief description.

This website is a summary of a randomized controlled trial of a metropolitan police department's body-worn camera program. It is useful in class to talk about the design of the experiment and also to talk about how they state their results. Their results are given as confidence intervals for differences.

A song to be used in discussing three key principles of experimentation – control, randomization, and replication. The lyrics were written by Mary McLellan from Aledo High School in Aledo, Texas as one of several dozen songs created for her AP statistics course. The song may be sung to the tune of the theme song written in 2004 by Mark Harrison and Blaise Smith for the animated tv show Spongebob Squarepants. Also, an accompanying video may be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWX2s4WZWx8

A song that may be used in discussing the value of blocking (or matching) in reducing variation in an experiment.  The lyrics were written by Mary McLellan from Aledo High School in Aledo, Texas as one of several dozen songs created for her AP statistics course. The song may be sung to the tune of the 1966 Beach Boys hit "Good Vibrations".  Also, an accompanying video may be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPCnjwyH8As