Web Links

Tutorial on the Central Limit Theorem by WISE
(http://acad.cgu.edu/wise/cltmodule/index.htm)

Illustrates the basic principles of the Central Limit Theorem and enhances conceptual understanding of inferential statistics.

Sampling Distributions of the Mean by WISE
(http://acad.cgu.edu/wise/sdmmod/sdmopen.html)

This tutorial teaches fundamental properties of sampling distributions of means such as accuracy of sample means, probability, and effects of sample size.

Probability by Surprise (Games Using Applets)
(http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~susan/surprise/)

The Birthday Problem, Say Red, The Collector, The Matching Problem, Random Scatter, Traffic jams, Visualizing Probabilities, and more. The site has class notes for teaching probability that are used in an Introduction to Probability class taught at Stanford. The Stanford notes refer to these games and other web resources.

Miscellaneous
(http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/ISAF/ISAF.htm)

The International Shark Attack File located on the website of the Florida Museum of History has statistics that could be useful for probability and other topics.

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