What is CAST?

CAST stands for Computer-Assisted Statistics Textbooks and consists of a collection of electronic textbooks (e-books).

Customised collection of CAST e-books

This version of CAST has been customised for use by XXXXX.

Click the 'XXXXX e-books' tab at the top of the page to see the list of e-books and start one.

CAST also contains several e-books for general audiences, including three e-books of advanced material -- click the 'Public e-books' tab at the top of the page to see and use these.

CAST and Java

CAST was originally designed to run within a web browser but needed to use small embedded Java programs (called applets) for its dynamic and interactive diagrams. These could be included with a Java plugin that all browers once supported but browsers are gradually dropping support for this plugin technology.

You may find that the applets work in your current browser (a check is made when an e-book is opened) but you will eventually have to change to a different version of CAST. We therefore strongly recommend that you download CAST and use the stand-alone version in the future.

Downloading

The browser-based XXXXX version of CAST can be accessed directly from the web site:

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However since the dynamic and interactive diagrams in CAST will eventually stop working, we encourage users to download CAST and run the stand-alone version from a local hard disk. This will allow you to use CAST well into the future. The download tab at the top of this page describes how to download and install CAST.

Licence and copyright

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