MERLOT Materials

This is a game students can play where they are scored on how well they interpret overlap of confidence intervals.

The WISE Bootstrapping Applet can be used to demonstrate bootstrapping by creating a confidence interval for a population... see more

This is an applet that is designed to help students understand the features and factors of one- and two-way ANOVA tables.... see more

Teachers and researchers, along with students, often misinterpret confidence intervals on bar graphs. A Guide that... see more

This tutorial is designed to provide a conceptual, non-mathematical, overview of the factors that affect power. You will... see more

This activity allows users to create and manipulate boxplots for either built-in data or their own data. Discussion,... see more

This site is meant to be a place where online statistics instructors can meet to share ideas, talk about teaching... see more

This applet simulates experiments using 2 x 2 contingency tables. You specify the population proportions and the sample... see more

This applet demonstrates the theory behind linear regression.

This is an applet that demonstrates least squares regression.

Using a parameter it's possible to represent a property of an entire population with a single number instead of millions... see more

The purpose of this resource is to illustrate some statistical concepts using QuickTime movies and Java applets.

On this site, students can practice classifying statistics problems. They first click to check the statistical methods... see more

This applet demonstrates that even a "small" effect can be important under some circumstances. Applicants from two groups... see more

This applet simulates experiments using 2 x 2 contingency tables. You specify the population proportions and the sample... see more

A computational tool that runs the one-way ANOVA by the user inputing individual data or by copying and pasting a... see more

This page will perform an analysis of variance for the situation where there are three independent variables, A, B, and... see more

This is a collection of notes that covers many topics typically included in introductory and/or intermediate statistics... see more

The site includes guided interdisciplinary labs for first and second courses in statistics. As stated on the homepage for... see more

This tool allows students to test their knowledge of levels of measurement in game-like enviroment similar to "Who Wants... see more

This tutorial teaches students about statistical power and how it is influenced by a variety of features of the... see more