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Resources for Teaching Statistics 

ATS Resources

Resources for Teaching Statistical Packages

• SAS Starter Kit
• Stata Starter Kit
• SPSS Starter Kit
• The Statistics Books for Loan page links to web resources associated with many Statistics books, including online data, errata, and sample programs. These books are available for loan to you as teachers (not for your students).
• SAS Academic Training Kits provides university instructors with course notes, slides and data sets to any of SAS Education's more than 50 courses.

Resources for Teaching Statistical Concepts

• The Useful Stata Programs page includes Stata programs for teaching Statistical concepts. 
  See the Statistics Teaching Tools Demonstration for examples of using these tools.

Resources for Developing Content for the Web

• The sas2htm and stata2htm tools can help you convert sample SAS programs and sample Stata programs into web pages.
• The Making Instructional Movies for Downloading Over the Web page illustrates how you can capture images from your computer screen and make movies that can be delivered over the web.

Other Web Resources

Statistical Calculators

• Java Applets for Power and Sample Size
• Some practical guidelines for effective sample-size determination by Russell V. Lenth from University of Iowa

Resources for Teaching Statistical Concepts

• Sites with numerous demonstrations/simulations
  - Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
  - Virtual Laboratory in Probability and Statistics
  - Java Demos for Probability and Statistics (some with Java source code)
  - Applets for the Cybergnostics project
  - The Education Section of the American Statistical Association
• Individual demonstrations/simulations
  - A Histogram Applet
  - A Confidence Interval Applet
  - A Central Limit Theorem Applet
  - A Regression Applet
  - Hypothesis Testing Power Applet
  - Analysis of Variance Applet
  - Understanding ANOVA visually 

Data for Teaching Statistics

• Case Studies (from the UCLA Department of Statistics) 
• Statistics Course Lab Datasets (from the UCLA Department of Statistics)
• Statistics Labs (from the UCLA Department of Statitics)
• Electronic Dataset Service
• The Data and Story Library (DASL)
• StatLib Dataset Archive (from the CMU Department of Statistics) 

Web Based Textbooks

• Seeing Statistics
• Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics
• HyperStat Statistics Textbook
• SticiGui Text
• Statistics at Square One
• PA 765 Statnotes: An Online Textbook
• Engineering Statistics Handbook
• The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice by Gerard E. Dallal at Tufts University 

UCLA Statistics Class Websites

• Biostat 200A - Applied Regression Analysis (Courtesy of Professor Boscardin)
• Education 230A Introduction to Research Design & Statistics (Courtesy of Professor Ender)
• Education 230B/C Linear Statistical Models (Courtesy of Professor Ender)
• Education 231A Multivatiate Analysis (Courtesy of Professor Ender)
• Policy Studies 208- Statistical Methods of Policy Analysis II (courtesy of Professor Hotz.)
• Sociology 210C - Intermediate Statistical Methods (courtesy of Professor Mare)
• Statistics M12 - Introduction to Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (Courtesy of Professor Gould)
• Analysis of Longitudinal Repeated Measures Data (courtesy of Professor Weiss)

Other Statistics Class Websites

• Computer Applications in Epidemiology courtesy of Michael Zdeb of University at Albany
• Economics Research and Communication (from Professor Ellison at MIT)
• EC 228: Econometrics from Professor Baum for Boston College
• The Chance Project from Dartmouth College (including Chance News and Video and Audio)
• Teaching Introductory Statistics in the Social Sciences and Engineering (X10) (including Teaching Resources  and Instructional Modules)
• Introduction to Linear Models (Math 30) (including Data Sources, Course Topics, and Examples)
• Applied Epidemiological Analysis (from Stanford)
• Advanced Social Statistics by Richard Williams from University of Notre Dame
• Center for Social Research Methods by Bill Trochim

Additional UCLA Resources

• The UCLA Office of Instructional Development, including...
  - How to find out whether a General Assignment Classroom contains a projector, Classroom Network port, data projector and more
  - The OID Faculty New Media Center, helping UCLA instructors use multimedia & web technology (and more) in their courses
• The Wilfrid J. Dixon Reading Room & F. N. David Library

More Sites

• Additional Internet Resources for Teaching Statistics

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