MERLOT Materials

SticiGui is a full, interactive stat textbook with lots of applets to illustrate key concepts, dynamic exercises,... see more

This tutorial introduces correlation concepts with graphs and data examples. Users will review examples and then learn... see more

This applet illustrates the p-value of a test of significance for means. Users set the null and alternative hypotheses,... see more

This applet generates confidence intervals for means. Users can set the confidence level to .8, .9, .95, or .99 and can... see more

This applet helps to demonstrate the power of a hypothesis test for means. Users set the null and alternative hypotheses... see more

This pdf file is a brief tutorial for how to create a pie chart using MS Excel.

This applet provides a simulation of Buffon's Needle experiement. A needle of length 1 being dropped at random on a floor... see more

This applet simulates running a series of hypothesis tests on the proportion of success (p) for Bernoulli trials. After... see more

This applet from Java Demos for Probability and Statistics introduces the concept of the random variable and its... see more

This data file comes from the Data and Story Library (DASL). It contains baseball world series information on the year,... see more

This data file comes from the Data and Story Library (DASL). It contains the weights in stones and pounds of the crews... see more

This data file comes from the Data and Story Library. It contains the 1970 draft data including month, day of month, day... see more

This data file comes from the Data and Story Library (DASL). It gives eleven characterisitcs of 478 students in grades... see more

This applet allows users to generate confidence intervals for either means or proportions. Users set the parameters... see more

This applet simulates drawing samples from a binomial distribution. Users set the population proportion, sample size, and... see more

This applet allows users to simulate sampling from a bag of Reese's Pieces. The computer keeps track of each sample and... see more

This applet allows users to generate dotplots by clicking the resample button and then guess the mean, median, standard... see more

This resource introduces the gamma distribution and provides an applet to help illustrate the concept.

This resource introduces maximum likelihood estimation and provides several applets to illustrate this concept.

This resource introduces Buffon’s Coin Problem and Buffon’s Need Problem and provides applets to help illustrate the... see more