A laboratory over the internet for a course on data analysis

We present a laboratory over the internet aiming to assist undergraduate students of natural sciences and engineering disciplines to enhance their understanding on the statistical analysis of measurements. The laboratory is implemented through an inexpensive, student-friendly and flexible system consisting of a radiation sensor, a data acquisition and control board, software tools and a user interface running on a web server under Windows OS. The laboratory curriculum is structured on an experiment of nuclear counting and it consists of mutually independent laboratory sessions of increasing difficulty, designed by placing emphasis on motivating students to experiment on the probabilistic nature of measurement.