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SELECTED WEBSITES, DATASETS & INTERNET RESOURCES

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Key quick references

R Project site. R, a freely available software package, provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques. It was developed at this University by Drs Ross Ihaka & Robert Gentleman (now at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle)

Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) codes.

Introductory material

HyperStat (Prof. David M. Lane, Rice U) hyperlinked introductory text; also has links to other useful sites.

SticiGui (Prof Philip B. Stark, UC Berkeley) or Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction with a Graphical User Interface.

Electronic Statistics Textbook (StatsSoft).

Selecting Statistics (William M.K. Trochim, Cornell U) A step-by-step programme to select the appropriate statistical test or technique.

Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics (U. Alabama at Huntsville) aims to provide interactive, web-based modules for students and teachers of probability and statistics.

Other resources, by topic

Biographies & history: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (U. St Andrews, Scotland). Entries have references.

Calculations in Statistics:

• Statistics Calculators (UCLA) Collection of online calculators for correlation & regression, distributions, sample-size, etc.
• StatPages (John C. Pezzullo, rtd, Georgetown U) list of sites performing calculations, etc

Datasets, Software, etc:

• Statistical Reference Datasets Project (Statistical Engineering Division, Information Technology Laboratory, US National Institute of Standards and Technology). Provide reference datasets with certified computational results to enable the objective evaluation of statistical software.
• StatLib: (Carnegie Mellon U) downloadable statistical software & datasets.

Decision Science resources (Dr Hossein Arsham, U. Baltimore). This author has also compiled resource lists for: Data Analysis — Revealing facts from data, Modeling & Simulation resources, Probability and Statistics resources.

Educational Material

• Chance: Teaching material for "a quantitative literacy course intended to make students more informed, critical readers of current news stories that involve probability and statistics".
• Data and Story Library (Carnegie Mellon U): an online library of data files and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods enabling teachers to find interesting, real-world examples for their students.
• The EDUCAUSE Information Resources Library.

Equations & typography : Equplus Statistical Equations: LaTeX code & png images for some distributions and moments (elsewhere on the Equplus site are equations in other mathematical areas, also unit conversion calculators).

Graphs & Graphics: Gallery of Data Visualization (Michael Friendly, York U, Toronto) examples of the best and worst in statistical graphics.

Preprints/ePrints & Publishing

These can be excellent sources for material — although many items, especially journal articles, will be available directly from our major databases [MathSciNet, Zentralblatt, & Scopus] in full-text.

• Archives of Statistics-related discussions: Journal of Statistics Education gopher site which contains verbatim archive records of the online discussion groups.
• JASA Data Archive: contributed datasets from articles published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

More general Mathematical resources include:

• Mathematics ArXiv an ongoing resource (over 50,000 items).
• If it is not successful, try the AMS Directory of Preprint Servers, which includes other broad mathematical preprint servers, subject specific servers,& retired servers.
• Also check the meta-resource Euler Project.

Publishers/Journals: Math on the Web's list of Mathematics Publishers. For Mathematical & Statistical journals, see Zentralblatt's Serials & Journals link.

Technical reports: The easiest way to find such full-text material is a Scopus web-search or, failing that, Citeseer^x or Google Scholar.

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Last updated 2011-08-08