Ideas for Your Introductory Statistics Class

This page is a great source for ideas on presenting material in your class.  There are activity ideas as well as examples and data sets you will find useful.  Check back often for new content.  Click on a photo for any of the topics below

• Websites and Data Sites
  • Links to a variety of helpful webpages for Statistics educators.  Plus, a list of many data site webpages.
• Videos
  • Watch videos that demonstrate some of the features of StatCrunch.  Also, see a description of the videos available with all the titles in Sullivan's Statistics series.
• Simulation & Randomization Methods
  • The Sullivan Statistics series has complete optional sections that utilize both simulation and randomization methods.  The material is presented in a way that allows flexibility within a department where some instructors want to cover these methods, while others prefer a traditional approach.  Here, we present a suggested implementation of these methods into your course.
• R Guidebook
• Chapter 1 - Data Collection
  • Suggestions for discussing the material on data collection.
• Chapters 2 & 3 - Tabular and Graphical Summaries of Data
• Chapter 4 - Summarizing Bivariate Data
  • This chapter is in two parts.  Part I covers summarizing bivariate quantitative data.  That is, two quantitative variables are measured on each individual (Sections 4.1 thru 4.3).  Part II covers summarizing bivariate qualitative data (Section 4.4).  We also present Simpson's Paradox in this section.
• Chapter 5 - Probability
• Chapter 6 - Discrete Probability Distributions
• Chapter 7 - The Normal Distribution
• Chapter 8 - Sampling Distributions
• Chapter 9 - Estimation
• Chapter 10 - Hypothesis Testing
• Chapter 11 - Inference on Two Population Parameters
• Chapter 12 - Chi-Square Procedures
• Chapter 13 - Comparing Three or More Means
• Chapter 14 - Inference on Least-Squares Regression
• Chapter 15 - Nonparametric Statistics