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Welcome – From the Editor
Welcome to the MERLOT Statistics Portal, a joint venture with the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE). This portal is a resource for anyone teaching statistics.
MERLOT Statistics/CAUSE are involved in many projects to improve statistics teaching. One such project is the U.S. Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS), sponsored by CAUSE.
Showcase
The site includes guided interdisciplinary labs for first and second courses in statistics. As stated on the homepage for this site, "This site presents workbook-style, project-based material that emphasizes real world applications and conceptual understanding. This material is designed to give students a sense of the importance and allure of statistics early in their college career. By incorporating many of the successful reforms of the introductory statistics course into a wide range of more advanced topics we hope that students in any discipline can realize the intellectual content and broad applicability of statistics."
New Materials
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Empty statistics, normal distribution
This is a tool that shows the graph of a distribution given the distribution type and the parameters. It also shades in a...
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Visualizing Statistics
This is a collection of interactive visualizations for elementary statistics.
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Seeing Theory
A visual introduction to probability and statistics.
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The Fallacy Files: How to Read a Poll
This article explains how a layman can read a news report of a poll without being duped by the hype.
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The science behind good charts
This interactive experiment can boost chart-making confidence.
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Data journalism training materials
This is a collection of data journalism training materials. Many (although not all) of the exercises have directions that...
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STARS Cafe
Project Description “STARS Cafe” is a single-player mobile game developed for the Research Methods course to teach...
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Loss Data Analytics
This book introduces readers to methods of analyzing insurance data. The online version contains many interactive objects...
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Excel Easy
Fully illustrated Excel tutorial + 300 examples. 100% free.
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Quartz guide to bad data
A reference to data problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them.
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The Curious Journalist's Guide to Data
This is a book about the principles behind data journalism. Not what visualization software to use and how to scrape a...
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How to Lie with Statistics
This classic book explains how statistics and data visualizations can be manipulated.
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Creating Data Literate Students |
This publication provides high school librarians and educators with foundational domain knowledge to teach a new subset...
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Statistics Visualizations, Calculators and Games
This site contains over 40 different statistics calculators, visualizations and games for the elementary statistics...
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Advanced Topics In Introductory Probability
NOTE: This is a BookBoon publication and you have to provide your email address to access it. The book is free for...
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Dataset Search
Google's free tool dataset tool enables users to search 25 million publicly available datasets. The search tool includes...
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Statistical Applets: Distribution of the one-sample t statistic
When a simple random sample (SRS) of size n is drawn from a N(μ, σ) population, the one-sample t statistic has the t...
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Statistical Applets: Probability 2 (the roulette wheel)
The American roulette wheel has 38 numbered slots: 1 through 36, 0, and 00. If the wheel is fair, the ball will be...
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Statistical Applets: Sampling Distribution of a Proportion
If the sample size, n, is "large" and both np and n(1 - p) are large enough, the sampling distribution of the sample...
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Statistical Applets: P-Value For A Test Of One Proportion
This applet illustrates the P-value for a significance test involving one population proportion, p. These concepts easily...
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Statistical Applets: Statistical Significance for one Proportion
This applet illustrates statistical tests with a fixed level of significance for a population proportion, p. The...
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Statistical Applets: Confidence Intervals for Proportions
This applet simulates the process of taking an election poll involving two candidates. Some proportion p of the...
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Statistical Applets: Chi-square Goodness of Fit Test
Suppose you have a large "hopper" of colored candies. You believe each of the 5 colors are represented equally often in...
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Statistical Applets: Normal Approximation to Binomial Distributions
The Central Limit Theorem says that as n increases, the binomial distribution with n trials and probability p of success...
New Members
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Claude MichelMaful -
LOLITA ILIGANdepartment of education
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Abhijit DasguptaNational Institutes of Health
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Melinda YagerMontana State University System - Bozeman
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Johann GarciaPolitecnico Grancolombiano
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Donnah AndersonCharles Sturt University
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Quyen VuongNone
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Lisa HolifieldBlytheville High School
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Jill Carnahan-JarvisPikeville College
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Rosemary FarrarNew River Community and Technical College
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Igor BaryakhtarMassachusetts Bay Community/Technical College
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Info IP tool Cuál es mi IPInfo IP tool
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Tamara LaRoccaNone
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Paula BenbowAlgonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology
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Ricaurte GarridoUniversidad Tecnológica de Panamá
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Reiko Saibara国際大学
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Sai VenkatCSIR
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davis carmonaINACAP Universidad Tecnológica de Chile
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Cihad OzcanHacettepe University
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Online SlotsOnlineslots
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Srutisri Kalyana SundaramLalaji Memorial Omega International School
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ALVIN MALLARIThe Calverton School
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Laura FerreiraNone
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Ralph RodriguezRutgers University - New Brunswick
Materials by Discipline
- Bayesian Analysis (6)
- Brownian Motion (3)
- Data Analysis (96)
- Linear Regression (38)
- Markov Chains (3)
- Nonlinear Regression (4)
- Probability (100)
- Queueing Theory (2)
- Statistics (329)
Professional Organizations
Statistics on the Web
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The Daily — Industrial product and raw materials price indexes, January 2026
Feb 20, 2026 11:39 AM PST
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2026 Jaguars Free Agent Tracker: CB Keith Taylor Re-Signs
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Statistics Canada reports December retail sales fell 0.4 per cent to $70B - Western Investor
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Big 12 Men's Basketball Single Session Tickets On Sale Now
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Final Round of Forestry, Agriculture, and Rural Markets Cost Share Announced - TN.gov
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A growing number of workers went on strike in 2025 | Economic Policy Institute
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Women's Tennis heads to Virginia Tech on Sunday - East Tennessee State University
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Bears Up Big Early Cruise to Another Win - University of Central Arkansas Athletics
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Veteran Home Buyers Accuse Mortgage Lender of Steering, False Affiliation With VA
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North Dakota St. vs St. Thomas (MN) - Women's Basketball - 2/19/2026 - Box Score
Feb 20, 2026 07:14 AM PST
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The ONS wants Auntie to know that field agent impersonation isn't clever, cool or funny
Feb 20, 2026 07:11 AM PST
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Hofstra Hosts UNCW in Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Game
Feb 20, 2026 07:05 AM PST
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'Jackets down Seawolves, 65-53 | University of Alaska Anchorage
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#5 Lady Buffs Host #14 Oklahoma Christian and Cameron - West Texas A&M University Athletics
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Keys to the Game: Celtics 121, Warriors 110 - NBA
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Probability underlies much of the modern world – an engineering professor explains how it ...
Feb 20, 2026 06:15 AM PST
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Datavault AI Announces Anticipated Launch of Josh Gibson Stablecoin and Josh Gibson ...
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Massive reduction in the backlog but questions over quality of decision making in latest ...
Feb 20, 2026 05:33 AM PST
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Aggies Fall to Cal State Fullerton Thursday Night - UC Davis Athletics
Feb 20, 2026 04:36 AM PST
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No, First-Time Homebuyers Aren't All 40 Now | The Daily Economy
Feb 20, 2026 04:16 AM PST