ActivStats is an award-winning multimedia introduction to statistics and a comprehensive learning tool. The ActivStats lesson book, organized by chapter, combines text with interactive features such as real-world videos, teaching applets, narrated and animated lessons, and interactive homework for all major introductory statistics topics. ActivStats also includes tools for performing simulations, visualizing inference, and learning a variety of statistics software, including Data Desk®, Excel®, JMP®, Minitab®, and SPSS®.

ActivStats can be used alone or as a complement to any Pearson statistics textbook.  It also meets the ASA/MAA guidelines for teaching introductory statistics and the Advanced Placement Statistics Course. ActivStats can be used in a laboratory, as a personal study guide, as part of a lecture presentation, or as the core of a self-paced or distance learning course.