This applet demonstrates that even a "small" effect can be important under some circumstances. Applicants from two groups apply for a job. The user manipulates the mean and the cut-off score in order...

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This article describes how an Environmental Science class became involved in a study to confirm the hypothesis that weeds are distributed at random in well established lawns.

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This assignment asks students to explore a set of data which is positively skewed. The data come from a survey of college students asking how vulnerable they feel about the loss of a parent.

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This article describes the process the of capturing and recapturing of mobile animals in order to estimate population size.

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This article describes how to make a physical model of the normal distribution and use it to illustrate the concepts of sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.

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This article explains a coin tossing activity emphasizing the central limit theorem and binomial distributions.

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The AIMS project developed lesson plans and activities based on innovative materials that have been produced in the past few years for introductory statistics courses. These lesson plans and student...

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This article describes an alternate calculation of expected value, which illustrates continuous random variables.

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This article explains the importance of combining biology and statistics together to lead to understanding of both. It suggests bringing pond life in to the classroom to illustrate a wide range of...

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This article describes a hands-on class activity for understanding the bivariate normal distribution by constructing a three-dimensional model.

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