Intro Stats Resources

This site is meant as a repository of resources for Introductory Statistics courses. If you have a website that you would like to add, please email me a link to it together with a few words about it at skiadas@hanover.edu, or leave an issue at https://github.com/skiadas/statsresources (requires GitHub account).

Statistics Communities

• CAUSEWeb organizes the eCOTS and USCOTS conferences and offers various resources
• ASA hosts many useful mailing and helps organize many conferences like the Joint Statistical Meetings
• SIGMAA Stat Ed
• Isolated Statisticians
• ASA community for statistical education
• ASA community for Stats 101
• AP Statistics

Journals (that are more applied)

• Journal of Statistics Education
• Significance
• Chance
• Teaching Statistics
• StEW (Statistics Education Web)

Reports, Recommendations

• GAISE, the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education
• CAUSEWeb resources
• Curriculum Guidelines
• 2015 CUPM, Intro Statistics Recommendation
• ASA’s statement on p-values
• Statistical Education of Teachers Report
• A Joint ASA/MAA Statement on Qualifications for Teaching an Introductory Statistics Course

Useful books

• Innovations in teaching statistics
• Teaching Statistics: a bag of tricks
• Teaching Statistics: Resources for Undergraduate Instructors

Online Textbooks and Book resources

• OpenIntro Statistics
• Lock5
• Introduction to Statistical Investigations
• Stat Labs

Links to Datasets

• Datasets from the Lock5 book
• BRFSS is a large annual survey on health-related factors.
• Kaggle
• JSE data archive
• Gapminder data
• Data and Story library
• Add (Adolescent to Adult) Health data
• General Social Survey
• Robin Lock’s links to datasets and lots of other goodies

Online and Interactive apps

• GapMinder tools allow an awesome visualization of various world statistics over time.
• StatKey
• Visualizations hosted by Kari Lock Morgan
• Art of Statistics
• Our World in Data
• Five Thirty Eight

Statistics Software

• R and RStudio, Project MOSAIC
• JMP, and SAS
• SPSS
• Minitab
• Tableau

Other resources

• World of Statistics
• This is Statistics
• The world of statistics
• K-12 Statistics Education resources
• ASA resources for undergraduate educators
• Resources for Teachers of Statistics from Villanova University Center for Statistics Education
• AMATYC Statistics resources page

Many thanks to all the contributors: Stacey Hancock, Patti Frazer Lock, Robin Lock, Phil Yates, Michael Posner, all the participants and attendees of the JMM 2018 panel on mathematicians teaching statistics.