Statistical Resources

Links to Statistical Resources

General Statistical Resources || Statistical Associations, Online Journals and Publications || Statistics Departments and Groups || Online Courses || Online Statistics

General Statistical Resources

WWW Virtual Library: Statistics Actively maintained lists of statistics departments, associations, data archives, newsgroups, etc
StatLib Index . The main entry point to the StatLib web at CMU. Extensive collections of statistical software, data, etc.
Other statistical sites maintained by Kovacs software. An extensive list of FTP sites and specialized statistical software for various disciplines.
Links related to Statistics Education A comprehensive list by J Puranen in Helsinki. Course-related materials are well classified.
Statistics on the Web . Clay Helberg's annotated compilation of Statistics links, including a large collection of consulting groups, educational resources (web courses, online textbooks), publications and publishers, links to statisticians' home pages. Don't miss his paper, Pitfalls of Data Analysis
WWW Resources and Bibliography - Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications
StatCodes StatCodes is a metasite with links to over 200 sites providing free on-line codes implementing statistical methods. Methods include time series analysis, multivariate analysis, censored and truncated data, nonparametric statistics, correlation and regression, Bayesian methods, density estimation and smoothing, image analysis, spatial statistics, visualization tools, interactive Web tools, and multipurpose statistics packages
THE AI-GEOSTATS SOFTWARE PAGE Gives information about available software & shareware commonly used in spatial statistics
The Probability Web: Home
Statistics Network
The List of Statistics Email Lists Mike Fuller's list of statistics email discussion groups and listserv lists. [Return to Top]

Statistical Associations, Online Journals and Publications

American Statistical Association What do Florence Nightingale, Alexander Graham Bell, Herman Hollerith, Andrew Carnegie and Martin van Buren have in common?

Graphics Section of the ASA The Statistical Graphics section maintains a video lending library, and conducts bi-annual data expositions at ASA meetings.
Statistical Computing and Graphics Newsletters from the ASA Section on Statistical Graphics. Most papers are avalable individually in PostScript format (.ps.Z).
Statistical Computing and Graphics Newsletter
Statistical Computing and Graphics Newsletters
ASA Consulting Section Information
Statistical Graphics Section's Video Lending Library The graphics video library is an archive of great technical and historic interest which captures much of the history of dynamic graphics for data analysis over the past 30 years. The collection is currently composed of 30 or so tapes, typically in 1/2 inch VHS format.
The American Statistician, Volume 51 Contents Contents and abstracts for The American Statistician

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

SIAM World Wide Web Server Links to SIAM journals, membership list, books, conferences, etc.
TeX MACROS SIAM provides macro packages for TeX, LaTeX, and AMS-TeX for SIAM's journals, books, and conference publications.
Classification Society of North America Lists meetings programme; contains WAIS-searchable bibliographies of classification-related journal papers.
Allstat A UK-based worldwide e-mail broadcast system for the statistical community.
International Assoc for Statistical Computing (IASC)
International Summer School on Computational Statistics Two-week summer school for researchers and students
Computational Statistics
Statistical Society of Canada Maintains a page of links to statistics pages, conferences, statistical organizations, government agencies, and Canadian university statistics departments.
- Case Studies in Data Analysis Each year the SSC provides several datasets for people to explore and present their findings at a session at the annual meeting.
Psychometrika
Journal of Statistics Education Home Page (and a European mirror site for JSE ). The JSE publishes quarterly; articles include novel approaches to teaching of statistics, interesting data sets used in teaching, etc.
Journal of Statistical Software
The Journal of Statistical Software is an electronic journal which publishes descriptions of software useful for statisticians, most (so far) in LispStat, and most with online demos.
InterStat Online journal: statistics on the internet. Papers are available in Adobe .pdf format and in PostScript.
Books, Journals, Preprints, Abstracts A comprehensive list of publications related to mathematics and statistics, from McGill.
Mathematics On-Line Bookshelf
Publishers information on mathematics books.
Contents of Computational Statistics Data Analysis Search Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Bibliography for Computational Probability and Statistics Lists web addresses for all major statistical journals. A long list of general resources, journal websites, books and journal articles. Many useful links, but no descriptions. [Return to Top]

Statistics Departments and Groups

The most extensive list of statistics departments is maintained on the WWW Virtual Library: Statistics. Listed below are a few with interesting WWW collections.

FSU Statistics Page
U.Washington Statistics Department WWW Home Page
Indiana Center for Statistical and Mathematical Computing
Many software user guides and documents on SAS, SPSS, BMDP, LISREL, GLIM, etc
- Stat/Math Documents A variety of Getting Started docs (SPSS, SAS, MATLAB, Maple)
Memorial Univ. Math &Stats Home Page
Penn State Department of Statistics
Cologne Univ Statistics WWW Pointers to statistical discussion groups, datasets, conferences, etc.
Univ of Michigan's Center for Statistical Consultation & Research (CSCAR)
SAS stuff, short courses
University of Chicago Department of Statistics
UCLA Statistics Server Technical report series, teaching materials, plus the xlispstat archive. More specific links to this material change frequently, so check back here if you get "Document Not Found".
Wharton Compstat Web Server
Dalhousie MSCS Home Page . X-windows tutorial, assorted unix guides, S plus tutorial
StatLab Heidelberg A large collection of technical reports, Project Voyager - an extensible programming environment for statistical computing and simulation, based on Oberon.
Univ Memphis -Statistical Services
U Texas, Austin: Statistical Services Offers keyword search of online documentation (SAS, SPSS, Systat, etc.) See also: TBN's Statistical Tidbits
Statistics Research at Bell Labs. See also: Ongoing Research Projects SPlus, Visualization, Trellis and other ATT stats group projects.
Los Alamos Labs Graphics &Visualization
Dept. of Statistics, University of Toronto
University of California, Berkeley
BYU Summer Institute BYU Summer Institute of Applied Statistics [Return to Top]

Online Courses

General
- Statistical Instruction and the Internet Tony Rossini's notes on using the WWW for teaching statistics with xlisp-stat, SAS, SPlus, etc.
- Bibliography on the Teaching of Probability and Statistics An extensive collection of references on teaching from 1987-1994 covering journals, conferences and books.
- Statistics Teaching References . Some links to class home pages and other information for using WWW for teaching, by Tony Rossini. The pages run the gamut from introductory information about the syllabus, books, etc, to actually containing course notes.
- The TWIstat project A project at Delft University of Technology. The goal of TWIstat is to develop courseware (NeXT and Windows) for assisting statistics education at the University.
- TLTP STEPS Home Page . Statistical Education through Problem Solving, organized under the UK Teaching and Learning Techniology Programme to produce computer-based teaching materials organized around substantive problems in various content areas (biology, business, geography and psychology)
- The Data and Story Library . DASL ("dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. They can be searched by subject area and statistical/methodological topic.
- Electronic Encyclopedia of Exercises and Examples EESEE currently includes over 75 "real-world" examples of the uses and abuses of statistics and statistical inference, drawn from published and printed media encompassing a wide range of subject-matter areas. The current version is a Mac, hypercard stack.
- ProjectIris
  Instructional resources for introductory statistics in science and engineering.
- Statistics Glossary - Main Contents Part of the STEPS project at Lancaster. Provides a topic-based glossary of statistical terms, classified by topics such as 'Sampling', Correlation and Regression', etc.
- UCLA Case Studies A set of nearly 30 content-based case studies of statistical practice by David Draper and George Michailides at UCLA, most with questions and HTML student worsheets.
- The UCLA Electronic Statistics Textbook
- PROPHET StatGuide: Home Page
  A comprehensive online glossary of statistical concepts and methods, with keyword search facilities and extensive references.
- Mathematics Archives - Lessons and Tutorials . An extensive list, more related to mathematics than statistics per se.
- The Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
- Studying statistics (advice) This page is aimed at undergraduates studying statistics for the first time. It is intended to be helpful to those taking stats because they have to, as well as those taking the subject because they want to
- Calculus graphics -- Douglas N. Arnold
  A Mathematica- based collection of lovely graphical demonstrations for first-year calculus.
- Gary McClelland: Courses . Undergraduate and graduate statistics courses by Gary McClelland, with a Mathematica &SAS flavor. Contains some nice Mathematica demonstration notebooks.
- STATISTICS PAGE A multimedia statistics page with animated movies.
- K-12 Statistics Education A collection of projects and problems to teach statistical concepts.
- SFU Statistics - Sampling - StatVillage Intro
  A web-accessible hypothetical city based on real data for use in an introductory survey sampling course.
- DAU STAT Refresher module
  Tutorial modules on probability and statistics
- Statistics Homepage: an Electronic Statistics Textbook The Electronic Textbook begins with an overview of the relevant elementary concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics (ANCOVA/MANCOVA, discriminant analysis, nonparametric statistics, distribution fitting, factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, reliability/item analysis, cluster analysis, log-linear analysis, nonlinear estimation, canonical analysis, survival analysis, time series analysis, structural equation modeling, etc). A glossary of statistical terms and a list of references for further study are included.
- Sociology 744: Computer Applications in Qualitative Data Analysis
- Generalized Linear Models Page
  Software, bibliographies, conferences, books, archives, and courses related to GLMs, maintained by Gordon Smyth at Queensland
- Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
  HyperStat Online (online textbook), simulations/demonstrations, case studies, and a Java Analysis Lab. By David Lane. Very nice, David!
Elementary Statistics
- STAT101: Introductory Statistics An online introductory stats textbook, with nice examples, tables, and graphs.
- Psychology 230: Elementary Statistics Intro statistics course with online Excel spreadsheets demonstrating statistical concepts.
- Introduction to Quantitative Methods . Gene Glass' course at Arizona State Univ
- Elements of Educational Statistics
- Math 102 . Introductory Statistics course at Colgate, with online exercises (excel)
- Basic Statistical Methods Michael Cowles course, with some nice pages on the history of statistical ideas.
- Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications by David Stockburger
- An online text for teaching introductory statistics to psychology students. It emphasises the understanding of statistical concepts and illustrates the use of SPSS/WIN to do statistical calculations. Numerous interactive exercises are contained in the text. Most use ActiveX and VBScript technology, so Internet Explorer 3.0 or later is necessary. In addition, programs to generate individualized homework assignments and tests are available. The latest work may be found at: Psychological Statistics at SMSU
- Teach Modules (Teaching statistics for undergraduate student) : Lesson Outlines Lisp-stat based instructional modules for introductory statistics, from Iowa State.
- Interactive Statistics Pages Some nice Java applets: guessing correlations, scatterplots, Data Applet, etc.
- STAT101 Home Page
- An online introductory stats course, with study guides and tutorials.
- Newcastle University Statistics Hyper-Library An online introductory stats textbook, with some interesting online Java applets
- Elementary Probability and Statistics Interactive
- Statistics 1001 Study Guide: Table of Contents
- Distance education course at Univ Minnesota
- Descriptive Statistics Introduction
- Tutorial pages on descriptive statistics (central tendency, variability)
- Psychology Statistics Class Page
- Several courses with lecture notes, problems/answers, and animated demonstrations
- MATH 447/547 Exploratory Data Analysis
- Covers the topics in Tukey's EDA book, with lots of datasets.
- The Statistical Sleuth Home Page
- A textbook, with online data sets, exams
- Introduction to Exploring Data Support materials on EDA for interoductory statistics. Nice collection
- Entity-Property-Relationship Approach to Introductory Statistics
- Discusses a new approach to the introductory statistics course based on the concepts of entities, properties of entities, and relationships between properties of entities.
- Intro Stat: EPR Approach
Intermediate Statistics / ANOVA / Regression
- Psychology 3030: Intermediate Statistics My upper-level undergraduate course in Regression/ANOVA/Experimental Design with lots of SAS examples.
- MAT 7405 - Statistical Methods II - Villanova University . A course in regression/ANOVA by Tom Short with many SAS datasets, exercises.
- Univ Michigan Statistics Courses Noteworthy: Teaching materials . Course notes by J Faraway on Regression and Anova in S+, Generalized Linear Models
- Stat 421 Autumn 1996 Applied Statistics and Experimental Design, with extensive online lecture notes, S-Plus material
- Stat 423 - Winter 1997
  A course in regression and analysis of variance.
- A web tutorial on Mixed Models by R. J. Baker at the University of Saskatchewan. [Broken link]
- Statistics 5302 Student Information Applied regression analysis
- Statistics 5161 Student Information
- Statistical Data Analysis
  A second course for undergraduate students. The site contains a fine collection of resources
- Psychology 406 An honors psychology course (inferential statistics, ANOVA, regression)
- MA489R, Regression
- Regression Refresher
- Logistic Regression and Loglinear Modeling for the Social Sciences This course provides intensive training in logistic regression for binary independent variables, and in log-linear modeling of multidimensional contingency tables. With Splus examples.
- Course: Math3034
  Modern Regression Analysis (with SPlus examples), by Claudia Czado
Multivariate Methods
- Psychology 6140: Multivariate Data Analysis
- UCLA Course listing Courses in Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Computation with Xlisp-Stat, Advanced Regression Analysis, many others, both graduate and undergraduate.
- Statistics 407 - Methods of Multivariate Analysis
  A course in multivariate data analysis with lots of graphics (Splus, Xgobi) by Dianne Cook at Iowa State
- 36-720: Discrete Multivariate Analysis [Broken link]
- Multivariate Statistics: A Practical Guide
- EDPSY 507 Syllabus
  This course, with extensive online notes, teaches multiple regression analysis, multiple and canonical correlation, multiple discriminant analysis, classification procedures, factor analysis
- Analysis of Multivariate Data Multivariate methods, categorical data analysis, neural networks; with SAS examples
Categorical Data Analysis
- Courses and course material
  - Paul Allison's Home Page . Describes short courses in Categorical Data Analysis and Event History/Survival Analysis using SAS.
  - Categorical Data Analysis ICPSR short course, with a comprehensive reading list
  - A guide to the analysis of categorical dependent variables with SAS and SPSS: Part 1
  - Generalized Linear Models: An Introduction
    Extensive examples with SAS and CDAS by Robert Hanneman, UC, Riverside
  - Health Studies 326/Statistics 226 Home Page
    Ron Thistead's course at Chicage; many data sets (in Stata format)
- Software
  - Categorical Data Analysis System (CDAS): A collection of programs (MSDOS and OS/2) for a wide variety of analyses, including loglinear models, latent class analysis, etc at Scott Eliason's Home Page. An online version of the User's Guide is at: .CDAS User's Guide Index
  - SUDAAN
  - SDIS-GSEQ Home Page. Software for Sequential Analysis Roger Bakeman's page describing his SDIS-GSEQ software for the analysis of sequential, observational data.
  - GLIM The UK-developed system for analysis of generalized linear models.
  - Software for Graphical Models, Belief Networks, etc. Links to CoCo, MIM, Digram, BIFROST, etc
  - CoCo Information CoCo is designed for fitting large, possibly incomplete contingency tables. It offers a wide variety of model-building techniques, particularly wrt Graphical Models.
  - LOGLIN: A program for generalised loglinear analysis
    LOGLIN performs generalised log-linear modelling of categorical data.. In addition to standard models, it can fit models for missing data and/or unobserved data.using the EM algorithm
  - _EM
    DOS and Windows95 program by Jeroen Vermunt for categorical data. Handles an extremely large variety of loglinear, latent class, and event history models.
  - DIGRAM: Discrete Graphical Models
    DIGRAM, a PC based program, written by Svend Kreiner of the Department of Sociology, analyzes recursive graphical models for discrete data.
  - StatLib---Software for Graphical Modelling MIM for Windows and DOS, a program for graphical modelling described in Edwards (1995), Introduction to Graphical Modelling, Springer-Verlag
  - MIM - Graphical modelling software MIM is a PC-program for graphical modelling, based on a broad family of statistical models for discrete and continuous variables. The following model families are included as special cases: hierarchical loglinear models, graphical Gaussian models, graphical association models, standard MANOVA models and various other models used in multivariate analysis.
  - LOGIMO - Loglinear and Loglinear IRT Model Analysis
    LOGIMO is a commercial program for the estimation and testing of ordinary loglinear models and loglinear IRT models.
- Visualization of Categorical Data Conference Program and abstracts for the conference held in Cologne, Germany, May, 1995.
- Ulysses Guide . A cross-tabulation engine on the www that works via telnet, from CIESIN.
- Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis This document contains tables from the Appendix of An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis by Alan Agresti. The tables show SAS code for the analyses conducted in that text, and contain the major data sets from that text.
- See also:Agresti SAS Examples Examples from Agresti's "An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis", SAS statements, plus output.
Graphical Methods
- Stat 438: Graphical Data Analysis : Discusses how to use graphical techniques to find patterns in data and present results to others. The course explores topics ranging from human visual perception and computer vision to conditional expectation and empirical distributions. There is a special off-campus page to help Internet visitors get started. Syllabus, calendar, lecture notes, assignments, and links to related materials. By Jeff Banfield, Montana State University.
- Stat 438
  Course by J Robison-Cox, using Cleveland's Visualizing Data, and extensive Splus notes, code
- CS450/550: Introduction to Computer Graphics Online computer graphics course using IBM's DX
- Statistical Graphics in Screen Design
- Stat 841: Computational Exploration of Data Courses at U Waterloo by Hugh Chipman and Waybne Oldford.
Linear/Matrix Algebra
- Linear Algebra WebNotes A complete undergraduate Linear Algebra course including the text of lectures , homework assignments and tests with solutions, a discussion page , Maple examples, etc.
- Vectors . An online course in vector geometry using Geometry Sketchpad.
- MATH 1057EZ . A distance education course on Elementary Linear Algebra (with a JavaScript matrix calculator)
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Online Statistics

Free Computing Some links to interactive conputing; run free Xlisp-Stat and other programs on the UCLA server.
- Submit Xlisp-Stat code through a form
- Statistical calculators A large collection of online calculators for correlation, regression, and various probability distribution calculators.
- Graphical Modules for Teaching Statistics
- Regression Calculator
- Power Calculator
- Power Calculator
Confidence interval for correlation coefficient Obtain a confidence interval for rho from a form, with a step-by-step explanation.
NetMul a WWW online multivariate analysis system from Univ Lyon, performs correspondence analysis and related techniques over the net., provides gnuplot output.
GASP homepage The University of South Carolina Statistics Department's Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures project.
- The GASP Tutorial A nice beginning tutorial on how to create interactive statistical applications on the WWW
WebPower . Power analysis for any (full factorial) ANOVA design.
Designing Clinical Trials Some sample size determination forms
Statistics to use A set of forms-based on-line statistics calculators; Enter your data, find: Mean, Standard Deviation, etc Fisher Exact Test ANOVA: ANalysis Of VAriance between groups chi- square distribution test contingency tables Student's t tests Ordinary Least Squares & beyond [ Keywords: forms-based on-line statistics calculator WWW]
Regression Applet A java applet designed to teach students the effect of leverage points on a regression line.
Interesting JAVA Applets
A large collection of Java applets on statistical topics
The GPL
Graphics Production Library for constructing Java applets which allow interaction with high-quality statistical graphics.
Welcome to WebStat A basic statistical package in Java from Webster West at University of South Carolina. Reads user's local data in a simple file format
Data Applet
Java applet for data analysis, with boxplots, scatterplots, descriptive statistics and a large library of datasets
Linear Equations
Enter coefficients for a 3 x; 3 system of equations and have the system solved.
Linear transformations
Enter coefficients for a 2 x 2 matrix, and see the effect it has as a linear transformation
Java at Xanadu
Java applets for calculus, Bownian motion, gambler's ruin
JavaStat
This page contains links to interactive web pages that perform statistical calculations
Mathematics Archives - JAVA and Other Interactive WWW Pages
Statlets - Java Applets for Statistical Analysis A large collection, free for academic use, commercial otherwise.
Data grinders - Java applets for the analysis of behavior
VassarStats: Web Site for Statistical Computation
On-line statistical computation via embedded javascript programming (Categorical data, proportions, correlation, regression, ANOVA, t-tests, etc.) [Return to Top]