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| General Statistical Sources: Background Information & Methodology |
The following is a guide to a selection of resources, both in print and on the internet, for general information about statistics and how to use them.
- American Statistical Association
- The American Statistical Association (ASA) is a scientific and educational society founded in 1839 to foster excellence in the use and application of statistics to the biological, physical, social and economic sciences.
- What is Statistics?
- Definitions, careers, opportunities for minorities and women in statistics, a day in the life of a statistician.
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Includes links to their publications, with Tables of Contents and Abstracts:
- American Statistician
MICROFLM FN 1255 - Business (current issues in paper)
HA 1 .A614 - Mathematics
 Back Issues
Current Issues
- Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA)
Serials A - Business
HA 1 .A61 - Mathematics
Back Issues
Current Issues
- Berinstein, Paula.
- Finding Statistics Online: How to Locate the Elusive Numbers You Need.
- Medford, NJ : Information Today, 1998.
- HA 33.5 .B47 1998 - Business Reference, Lehman
- Cramer, Duncan.
- The Sage Dictionary of Statistics: a Practical resource for Students in the Social Sciences.
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2004.
- HA 17 .C73 2004g - Lehman, Social Work Reference
- Current Index to Statistics
- An index to journals, books, and conference proceedings related to the study and use of statistics.
- Electronic Statistics Textbook
- A hypertext book which covers all aspects of statistics, from elementary concepts to multidimensional scaling to variance components. Provided by StatSoft, a software publisher.
- Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences
- Reference tool covering statistics, probability theory, biostatistics, quality control, and economics with emphasis in applications of statistical methods in sociology, engineering, computer science, biomedicine, psychology, survey methodology, and other client disciplines. This 2nd edition collects the entire original edition, plus supplements and updates.
- Exploring Data
- This website contains activities, worksheets, overhead transparency masters, datasets and assessment to support data exploration. It also contains an extensive collection of articles designed to enhance the statistics knowledge of the teacher. There is a resources page that gives a select list of the finest resources available to support introductory statistics, including texts, websites, datasets, java applets and mailing lists. Presented by Education Queensland.
- Glenberg, Arthur M.
- Learning from Data: an Introduction to Statistical Reasoning. 2nd ed.
- Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.
- HA 29 .G57 1996 - Psychology
- Graphing Statistics & Data: Creating Better Graphics.
- Newbury Park, CA : Sage Publications, 1996.
- HA 31 .S8313 - Lehman
- HyperStat Online
- An introductory-level hypertext statistics book, from David M. Lane, a Psychology and Statistics Professor at Rice University
- Includes a nice Glossary of Statistical Terms
- The Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
- Created by the Animated Software Company, this site provides not only the definitions, but also examples of use and visual aids.
- Niles, Robert.
- Finding Data On the Internet: a Journalist's Guide
- Niles, Robert.
- Statistics Every Writer Should Know
- For those of us who aren't statisticians, good descriptions of the basic statistical concepts ... mean, average, standard deviation, etc.
- OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms
- Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms. 6th ed.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- HA 17 .K4 2003g - Mathematics
- SOCR: Statistics Online Computational Resource
- This resource, from UCLA, specifically provides portable online aids for probability and statistics education, technology based instruction and statistical computing. SOCR tools and resources include a repository of interactive applets, computational and graphing tools, instructional and course materials.
- Statistics on the Web
- This site, created by SPSS statistician Clay Helberg, is a broad resource for statistical information. Especially good for links to online courseware and statistical techniques.
- Spirer, Herbert F.
- Misused Statistics. 2nd ed.
- New York : M. Dekker, 1998.
- HA 29 .S65574 1998 - Journalism
- Presents many examples of misused statistics and discussion of how to present and interpret statistics correctly.
- SticiGui: Statistics Toolbox for Internet and Classroom Instruction with a Graphical User Interface, from Philip B. Stark, University of California, Berkeley
- Includes a hypertext statistics text, glossary of terms, lab exercises, and more.
- Statistics Calculators
- The Statistics Department at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) has provided a collection of free statistical calculators. The calculators available at the site can be used to calculate the power of a test, a regression and generalized linear model, two sample tests, and correlation.
- StatLib
- StatLib is a system for distributing statistical software, data sets, and statistical information via email, ftp, and the Web. Maintained by Carnegie Mellon University, it contains browsable and searchable selections of tools and data for numerous statistical applications.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics, maintained by the University of Florida Department of Statistics.
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