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Just a small collection; mainly pointers to dedicated directory sites
Education and information
Stats at George Mason University - dedicated to presenting the facts behind the news
stories
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History of statistics
- collection of resources at University of York
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Daily
Lesson Plan - Mathematics
- mathematics lessons based on New York Times news
stories
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Dartmouth College quantitative literacy course Chance
- online video, presentations, student work and their
own links
page (several of the links below found there)
Link pages and portals
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Statistics Societies and Organisations
- links maintained by the American Statistical Association
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World-Wide Web Virtual Library pages on Statistics
- maintained by Univ. of Florida, Stats. Dept. - lots
of links!
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Statistics Glossary
- glossary compiled by Valerie J. Easton and John H. McColl and updated by Stuart G. Young.
- Surfstat.australia
- This is an online text in introductory Statistics and the site includes a glossary and online calculator for normal distribution, Student's t, Chi squared, binomial and random digits
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Wikipedia: list of statistical topics
- Includes descriptions of distributions and tests, tables, all sorts. WikiPedia is a community resource so you can add anything that is missing! There is also a list of basic statistical topics if the big list looks too daunting!
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StatLib
- a portal of 'Data, Software and News from the Statistics Community'
hosted by the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University
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A few links related to Statistics Education
- A page of links by Juha Puranen of Helsinki University. Well Juha's idea of 'a few' is interesting!
An extensive categorised list of respources.
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Southampton Institute's pages on Statistics
on the Web
- mainly links to data sources such as census data
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Probability Web
- collection of probability resources on the World
Wide Web; maintained by Bob
Dobrow
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The List of Statistics Lists
- collection of mailing lists on things statistical
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Free Statistics
- lists of statistical and mathematical tools including feature comparison chart
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Statistical distributions at Wikipedia
- pretty comprehensive coverage of common distributions
Web books
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Wikipedia Statistics (webBook)
- chapters covering many areas of statistics (some gaps to fill too)
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Engineering Statistics Handbook
- produced by the US National Institute of Standards Technology IT Lab. Focused towards engineering applications, but loads of general statistics including tables of several common probablity distributions
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HyperStat Online Textbook
- online textbook by David M. Lane
of Rice University. Covers basic areas and as you drill down the ToC has links to related resources, so a mini-portal too.
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Statnotes: An Online Textbook
- this webbook by G. David Garson describes itself as a textbook, but possibly more of a reference book as the language would be hard if you are a stats novice. Covers wide range of areas including more qualitative and scocial scxience techniques as well as 'hard' statistics.
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Statsoft - Electronic Textbook
- Pretty full text book, although it starts with 'elementary concepts' perhaps not for the absoluite beginner, but does start fairly basic and fgoes into pretty detailed tests. Illustrated with Staistica screen shots, but not dependent on the software. Also includes a detailed statistics glossary.
Online tables, tools and demos
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VassarStats: Statistical Computation Web Site
- numerous utilities for statistics and probabilty: data cleaning and transformation, and tests from Wilcoxon and Kappa to ANOVA and regression.
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Statistical Tables
- tables compiled by Peter M Lee in Postscript, PDF or LaTeX format
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Statistics Online Computational Resources
- Resources from Ivo Dinov at UCLA Dept.of Statistics. online games, demos, distribution calculators, plus tables and other resources.
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Probability
by Surprise
- site produce by Susan
Holmes as part of an NSF project; contains applets demonstrating
different probabilty problems such as the birthday surprise
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Create A Graph
- online graphing from the US National Centre for Education Statistics var, scatter, line, (aimed at schools, but fine for small graphs)
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JavaScript
E-labs
- loads of pages to do statistics and decision analysis online
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Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
- inlcudes the HyperStat online textbook, but also online demonstrations, case studies and some online analysis tools
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Statistics Java applets
- links page to Java applets available on the web,
compiled by Duke Univ Stats people who also have interesting links
page
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Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures
- collection of places where you can do online statistical analysis
Interesting bits
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7 common errors in statistics
- (on this site) seven different ways statistics go wrong ... and how to avoid it
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Simpsons Paradox
- WikiPedia article about this odd phenomena where averages of statistical measures seem to have an opposite trend to the indivdiual measures. This is usually due to some confounding factor (e.g. social class and type of schoo attended)
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