These modules are closely linked to the textbook, Statistics: The Craft of Data Collection, Description, and Inference (Monrad, Stout, and Harner, Moebius Publications, 2002, 3rd edition). The general pattern for taking the module will consist of reading the book in hard copy and doing exercises from the book, using Excel and the graphing calculator supplement to the book. Exercises and other activities will be conducted in electronic format (spreadsheet, word processor, calculators, etc.) and submitted to the instructor via the Internet.

More details on each individual unit are given below:

Interactive Statistics -- Unit 1 Introduction

In this first unit, participants will be exposed to the World Wide Web as a resource for statistics instruction. Participants will learn how to use the web as a resource by exploring various statistics internet sites. Then ways of exploring data using tables and graphs will be introduced.

Interactive Statistics -- Unit 2 Introduction
In this second unit, participants will be introduced to centers of data (mean, median, and mode), ways of measuring spread, the normal distribution, and boxplots.

Interactive Statistics -- Unit 3 Introduction
Unit 3 deals with linear relationships in data by studying scatterplots, correlation, regression, and the question of causation.

Interactive Statistics -- Unit 4 Introduction
Unit 4 will elaborate on the previous three units as well as introduce a few new topics. New topics of Unit 4 are experimental probability, probability models, simulation, box models, and random sampling, and expected value.

Interactive Statistics -- Unit 5 Introduction
Unit 5 first focuses on learning about probability distributions--specifically the Binomial, Geometric, Poisson, and Normal distributions. Then issues of sampling and experimental design are discussed.