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This site gives a definition and an example of numerical summaries. Topics include mean, median, quantiles, variance, and standard deviation.

This site gives a definition and an example of normal distributions. Topics include assessing normality and normal probability plots.

This site gives a definition and an example of categorical data. Topics include two-way tables, bar graphs, and segmented bar graphs.

This site gives an explanation, a definition and an example of inference in linear regression. Topics include confidence intervals for intercept and slope, significance tests, mean response, and prediction intervals.

This site gives an explanation, a definition and an example of multiple linear regression. Topics include confidence intervals, tests of significance, and squared multiple correlation.

This Java based applet gives students an opportunity to work through confidence interval problems for the mean. The material provides written word problems in which an individual must be able to correctly identify the given parts for a confidence interval calculation, and then be able to use this information to find the confidence interval. It gives step by step prompts to encourage students to choose the correct numbers and "cast of characters".

This site provides a collection of applets and their descriptions. Some of the titles include the Monte Carlo Estimation of Pi, Can You Beat Randomness?, One-Dimensional Random Walk, Two-Dimensional Random Walk, The Anthill and Molecular Motion, Diffusion Limited Aggregation, The Self-Avoiding Walk, Fractal Coastlines, and Forest Fires and Percolation.

This is the description and instructions for the One-Dimensional Random Walk applet. This Applet relates random coin-flipping to random motion. It strives to show that randomness (coin-flipping) leads to some sort of predictable outcome (the bell-shaped curve).

This website provides lesson plans, activities, a problem bank, and links to references that meet NCTM standards for probability.

This is the description and instructions for the Two-Dimensional Random Walk applet. This Applet relates random coin-flipping to random motion but in more than one direction (dimension). It covers mean squared distance in the discussion.