Included here are sites related to statistics: methods of planning experiments, obtaining data, analyzing it, drawing conclusions from it, and making decisions on the basis of the analysis. For collections of statistics on various subjects, use Statistical and Demographic Resources.
WWW SITES
- American Statistical Association
- DASL: The Data and Story Library Illustrates the use of basic statistics methods
- Datasurfing Applied statistics
- HyperStat Online Textbook
- Inferential Statistics: Concepts and Applications Vassar College interactive textbook
- Probability Web
- Questionnaire Design and Surveys Sampling University of Baltimore
- Research Methods Knowledge Base Cornell University Includes descriptive and inferential statistics
- Statistical Data Analysis University of Baltimore
- Statistical Reference Datasets (StRD) National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Statistics Library From the University of Chicago; links to statistical sites, archived datasets, bibliographies and more
- Statistics on the Web Links to statistics organizations, institutes, publications, and software-oriented pages
- StatLinks
- WWW Virtual Library: Statistics Florida State University
University Departmental Sites
These websites are from the top-ten rated statistics departments in the United States. Most supply research links.(SOURCE: US News and World Report)
- Stanford University
- University of California-Berkeley
- Harvard University
- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Cornell University
- University of Chicago
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
- University of Washington
- Carnegie Mellon University
DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, ETC.
- Access
Science Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science
and Technology
- Some dictionaries related to mathematical statistics are available on
Credo Reference (formerly XreferPlus) including:
- Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
- The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics
INDEXES AND DATABASES
Use
the Indexes and Databases to identify articles
in journals, magazines, and newspapers. Many indexes provide full text articles.
- EbscoHost : Academic Search
- JStor provides full text articles for these journals:
- Annals of Mathematical Statistics
- Annals of Statistics
- Applied Statistics
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A and Series B)
- Statistical Science
- Statistician
- MathSciNet
- WilsonWeb: General Science Full Text
- ArXiv Free access to preprint papers including statistics
- Free Library Includes a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications.
- Google Scholar Set preferences to Stout to search for full text available through the UW-Stout Library
- ScienceResearch.com Free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals and public science databases, some full text articles are available
- Scirus Search engine for scientific journal articles and web sites
WWW Search Engines
The search engines that are available on the WWW vary in depth and coverage. Explore the search options to find relevant WWW sites. For a list of available search engines and WWW directories, e.g. Google or Yahoo, use Searching the Web from the Library Home Page.
Citations
To cite online resources in appropriate bibliographic style see: Citing Resources
To organize citations and create bibliographies and papers in APA, MLA and other styles see: RefWorks and Other Citation Management Tools
Last Updated: 03/12/2008 and Last Revised: 01/17/2007
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