in february 2000, i started a intro course list ... called introstat ... where the goal was to present a general introductory statistics course via an email mode (we made it about 2/3s of the way through). recently, i closed the list ... anyone interested in posts that were made while this was in operation, might have a look at the following link ... some of the material there may be of interest http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/introstat/introstat.htm ______________________________________________________ dennis roberts, educational psychology, penn state university 208 cedar, AC 8148632401, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================