Here is a collection of web sites for those of you who teach statistics.  I received considerable 'help' from Robin Lock of St. Lawrence University and Allan Rossman and Beth Chance of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo.  I have divided the links up into the following categories:
 

Web sites for Finding Data

Data from Noted Printed Textbooks

Newsletters, Magazines and Journals

Web Sites for Organizations and General Information

Online Textbooks

Online Statistics Packages

Course or Textbook Supplements

Probability and Statistics Level (?) Applets

Web Pages for Some Nonrandom Introductory Statistics Courses
 
 

Web sites for Finding Data:
 

The homepage for the Chance Project, which developed a case-study quantitative literacy course based on statistics. It relies on current events to motivate the topics. This site is for supporting that course.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/

See the related electronic newsletter, Chance News.

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/chance_news/news.html
 

DASL is the Data & Story Library, where you will find data with the stories behind them.

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/
 

Eurostat: European statistics.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/
 

FEDSTATS - Billed as the ‘One-Stop Shopping’ source for government data with links to more than 70 federal agencies. Be sure to try the A to Z link.

http://www.fedstats.gov/

Other government statistics can be found here (a page from one of Robin Locks papers, “WWW Resources for Teaching Statistics,” 1998).

http://it.stlawu.edu/~rlock/tise98/govtdata.html
 

Stephen Turner and Leon Bourn (Babson College) co-authored Fishing for Data Using the ‘Net (1996), McGraw-Hill College Custom Series. I have not read the book carefully, but this is their homepage with links to data sources. [Except that I couldn’t find it the other day!]

http://faculty.babson.edu/turner/fish.html
 

The homepage for the on-line Journal of Statistics Education(JSE) Information Service. There is a ‘column’ for interesting data and articles about interesting data.

http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/information.html
 

Sports Statistics on the Web has links to sports data. Maintained by the ASA’s Section on Statistics in Sports.

http://www.amstat.org/sections/sis/sports.html
 

Statistical Abstract of the United States.

http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
 

StatLib, the ‘statistics library’ and homepage of the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon U., with links to lots of data sources, including DASL.

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/
 
 
 

Data from Noted Printed Textbooks:
 

DATA: A Collection of Problems … by Andrews and Herzberg, Springer-Verlag.

http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/Andrews/
 

Handbook of Small Datasets by Hand, Daly, Lund, McConway, & Ostrowski.

http://www.stat.ucla.edu/data/hand-daly-lunn-mcconway-ostrowski/
 

Statistical Principles in Experimental Design, by B.J. Winer, D.R. Brown, K.M. Michels.McGraw-Hill, New York, 1991. 3rd edition.

http://www.uni-koeln.de/themen/Statistik/data/winer/  

 
 

Newsletters, Magazines and Journals:
 

Chance magazine, jointly published by the ASA and Springer-Verlag.

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chance99/
 

The homepage for the on-line Journal of Statistics Education(JSE) Information Service.

http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/information.html
 

ASA’s Section on Statistical Education newsletter.You can get it by paper- or e-mail.It is archived.

http://www.amstat.org/sections/educ/newsletter
 

The Statistics Teacher Network.A newsletter for teaching statistics in grades K-12.

http://www.bio.ri.ccf.org/ASA/stn.html
 

Teaching Statistics, from the United Kingdom.

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0141-982X&site=1
 
 
 

Web Sites for Organizations and General Information:
 

American Statistical Association homepage.Check out the Center for Statistical Education (look on the left).

http://www.amstat.org/

Center for Statistics Education. Check out the K-12 Curriculum

http://www.amstat.org/education/index.cfm?fuseaction=main

 

AP Statistics web site.Contains policies, rules, course descriptions, copies of past questions.

http://www.collegeboard.com/ .  You will need to register and then click your way to AP Courses/Statistics.
 

CTI Statistics web site.  It has been absorbed into/by the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Maths, Stats and OR. See the related newsletter, Math & Stats Newsletter

http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/cti/activities/publications/index.html
 

Gallup Organization.You can find articles on very recent poll results to use in class to illustrate sample proportions.

http://www.gallup.com/
 

The General Social Survey.

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/
 

An index of information about statistics (from data to its scientific journals) maintained by Clay Helberg (now at SPSS?). This is huge!

http://www.execpc.com/~helberg/statistics.html
 

JAVA Applets. Links to interesting online applets for demonstrating statistical concepts. Compiled at Duke University, but provides links to many sites. The list of contributors at the bottom of the page is a good place to browse to find other applet sites.”

http://www.stat.duke.edu/sites/java.html
 

This is the home page of the American Statistical Association and Mathematical Association of America’s ASA/MAA Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics:

http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us/statcomm/
 

Robin Lock’s homepage (St. Lawrence University). He is a leader in using the web in teaching statistics. His homepage has many interesting links and copies of his captivating presentations.

http://it.stlawu.edu/~rlock/

Probably his most comprehensive paper is “WWW Resources for Teaching Statistics,” 1998.

http://it.stlawu.edu/~rlock/tise98/
 

National Election Studies.

http://www.umich.edu/~nes/
 

The Statistics & Operational Research home page of the Maths, Stats & O.R. Network ‘headquartered’ at the U. of Glasgow, Scotland.

http://www.ltsn.gla.ac.uk/
 

The Statistics Teaching and Resource Library (STAR Library) has as the first part of its mission, “To provide a peer-reviewed journal of resources for introductory statistics teachers that is free of cost, readily available, and easy to customize for the use of the teacher.”

http://www.starlibrary.net/
 
 
 

Online Textbooks:
 

HyperStat

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html
 

Seeing Statistics online text (web book)

http://www.seeingstatistics.com/
 
 
 

Online Statistics Packages:
 

Dataplot is a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) based statistics and graphics package.

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/software/dataplot/homepage.htm
 

Statiscope(univariate)

http://www.df.lth.se/~mikaelb/statiscope/statiscope-enu.shtml 
 

WebStat is now called StatCrunch and you can go to the following site to see if it is still free!

http://www.statcrunch.com/
 
 
 

Course or Textbook Supplements:
 

CUWU Statistics Program at/of the U. of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

http://www.stat.uiuc.edu/~stat100/cuwu/
 

Rice (University) Virtual Lab in Statistics (RVLS)

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html
 

Workshop Statistics collection, or ‘Rossman/Chance Applet Collection’ (Rossman, Chance, Garcia)

http://statweb.calpoly.edu/chance/applets/applets.html
 
 
 

Probability and Statistics Level (?) Applets:
 

Probability and statistics (Kyle Siegrist, University of Alabama in Huntsville)

http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/
 
 
 

Web Pages for Some Nonrandom Introductory Statistics Courses:
 

Beth Chance’s Stat 217, Spring 2001(Workshop Statistics, 2nd), at California Polytechnic S.U..

http://statweb.calpoly.edu/chance/stat217/index.html
 

Chris Lacke’s Stat I, Spring 2001 (Moore & McCabe, 3rd), at Rowan U..

http://www.rowan.edu/mars/depts/math/lacke/STAT1.HTM
 

William Peterson’s Math 106, Spring 2001 (Moore & McCabe, 3rd), at Middlebury C..

http://s01.middlebury.edu/ma106a/
 

 
 

Click here to return to Dex's homepage.  Click here to return to the Teachers page.