Additional Resources

Resources on the Internet

 
SticiGui is an extensive online resource including text, glossary, tools and demos.
The Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics.   (This is at Rice University -- no relation to me!) It includes an online textbook, simulations and demonstrations, case studies, and  some simple analysis tools.
The CUWU Statistics Program is a collection of Java applets for analyzing data, simulating box models, and playing games of chance.
WebStat is freely available data analysis software for use over the web.
VassarStats has a user-friendly tools for performing statistical computations.
Chance News.The aim of Chance is to make students more informed, and critical, readers of current news that uses probability and statistics as reported in daily newspapers such as "The New York Times" and current journals and magazines such as "Chance", "Science", "Nature", and the "New England Journal of Medicine"
The Bureau of the Census
Gallup Polls.
Riveting statistics from Harper's Index.  Do you believe them?
The Data and Story Library contains examples of the use of elementary statistics in many fields.
A web site for skeptics, with some statistics.
StatLib. A collection of data, software, news on Statistics, and other links
Completely meaningless randomly generated essays produced by the Postmodern Generator.

Old Quizzes and Exams

 

First midterm from another  year              Solutions

Second midterm from another year           Solutions

Final from another year                            Solutions

Additional Course Reading

Death and the Median
Sex and Death
Internet use linked to decline in mental well-being
The Hite Report (more sex)
Salt and Blood Pressure
The recent UC decision to drop the SAT I for admissions was based in part on statistics gathered for research on admissions.
Striking examples of the placebo effect.
Controlled experiments in the social sciences.
Coincidences:  remarkable or random?
Why I don't get better teaching reviews

Tutoring

 
The Student Learning Center  offers free tutoring.
The Statistics Department (367 Evans Hall) has a list of tutors who can be hired individually.