Java Applications for Teaching Statistics

248 Analysing Data is a new introductory statistics course presented by the Open University from 2003. As the course title suggests the emphasis is on learning statistics through analysing data rather than mathematics. MINITAB will be provided for data analysis but it was decided to develop further software to support the teaching of more difficult statistical concepts. In the past the OU has developed such software in the C++ programming language. For this course however it was decided to develop the software in Java.