Exam Preparation

Over the years, Barron's popular and widely-used Easy Way books have proven themselves to be accessible self-teaching manuals. Math the Easy Way includes instruction and review in whole numbers, fractions, percentages, as well as introductions to algebra and statistics. You will also find a diagnostic test and an end-of-book practice test with answers.

The links on this page take you to detailed explanations of how to illustrate data distributions, design scatter plots, and draw stem-and-leaf and box-and-whisker plots.

This textbook provides an introduction to statistics. It covers describing, exploring, and comparing data, probability, probability distributions, normal probability distributions, estimates and sample sizes, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression and statistical process control. Assuming only a knowledge of algebra, it builds a strong foundation of conceptual and procedural understanding of statistics.

This book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining numbers. A simple read that serves to quickly introduce you to the moral underpinnings tied to the use of statistics.

An independent study course that covers descriptive statistics, probability, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing for one and two parameters. The emphasis is on applications to a wide variety of disciplines.

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere.

They have 800+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations which have been recorded by Salman Khan.

This resource comes highly recommended from ABCTE's Math forum: http://www.abcte.org/forum/2926/.

Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative (OLI) features a collection of openly available and free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course in an online format.

This course is comparable to a full semester course on Statistics.

At the time this resource list was written, there were over 110 links on this site, each leading to an accurate, friendly, and rigorous discussion of math topics, ranging from elementary topics like fractions all the way to complex matrix operations such as Gauss-Jordan elimination.

Using playful headings to encourage students to read further, the book begins with an introduction to the "language" of statistics, and then covers descriptive statistics (from computing measures of central tendency to distributions and curve plotting to graphing data) and inferential statistics (including probability, statistical significance, correlation/regression, ANOVA, and multiple regression).

The online and free Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material was developed at the StatSoft R&D department based on many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and covers a wide variety of applications, including laboratory research (biomedical, agricultural, etc.), business statistics and forecasting, social science statistics and survey research, data mining, engineering and quality control applications, and many others.

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more—all explained in simple, clear, funny illustrations.