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ActivStats®

ActivStats is an innovative multimedia education product that teaches introductory college-level statistics and the use of our Data Desk data exploration package. ActivStats was designed and authored by Paul Velleman, and reflects modern research into how people learn and specifically how people learn statistics.

Based on MediaDX, it's an interactive mix of narrative, video, sound, and animation that encourages students to work at their own speed and, along the way, explore the concepts and skills that particularly interest them. Once the user has worked through the software, it remains a lively reference resource.

The success of the original ActivStats has prompted the cooperative development of a number of related statistics courses that link up to other statistical analysis tools.

Innovative, Comprehensive Statistics Resource

ActivStats uses a full range of multimedia to motivate, explain, visualize, and apply introductory statistics concepts. It integrates video, simulation, animation, narration, text, interactive experiments, web access, and Data Desk into a rich learning environment. It is used successfully by both students and professionals.

ActivStats Professional

The Professional version is designed to help you review the statistics you may have forgotten or to learn these valuable skills for the first time on your own. It includes the Assistant, a special tool that guides the user through the steps of a data analysis that offers links to ActivStats activities to review specific concepts.

Student Version

Use the Student Version along with an introductory statistics course or for review or study on your own. It is designed to work with many standard statistics texts. It can be the text for a course, can supplement any standard text (providing a built-in statistics package at no extra cost), or can be used individually by students who want study aids.

To purchase a student version you must be a student or faculty member affiliated with an accredited academic institution. It may be purchased from the publisher, Addison-Wesley.

Teacher Support

Materials are available to support teachers wishing to teach with ActivStats. ActivStats can provide vivid in-class demonstrations. Any teacher can add his or her own materials to any page of the Lesson Book.

Online Courses

ActivStats is well suited for online courses because it allows students to explore statistical concepts in a number of ways. ActivStats provides the "lecture component" for online courses that are not able to provide a traditional lecture. Here is a list of some online courses that use ActivStats.

 

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