Statistics

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StatLinks

Journals

• JCGS (Manuscript Central site)
• Journal of Statistical Software
• Computational Statistics (editorial manager site)
• ISI Journal Citation Reports
• Teaching Statistics
• Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods
• ISI Journal Citation Reports (follow the links to get journal impact factors and rankings).

Data Sets

• Auckland House Prices.
• The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data archives.
• Chicago crime statistics including map presentations.
• OECD Factbook 2005
• The Stat Village .
• A site with weather data for "Houston's west side" (by Alan Jackson).
• DASL (Data And Stories Library).
• A whole bunch of datasets in R format at Vanderbilt Medical Centre (Frank Harrell).
• NMMAPS data set (daily mortality, air pollution, and weather data originally assembled as part of the National Mortality, Morbidity, and Air Pollution Study). In the form of an R package(!)
• Statistics NZ's CURF site ($2000 license + $200/year).
• NZTopoOnline customisable NZ maps.
• The MD*Base site.
• The NIWA home page.
• The CODIAC site: "CODIAC is a data management system which offers scientists access to research and operational geophysical data".
• The Bodleian Library Map Room home page (map data shape files).
• More (country) map shape files.
• An electronic survey of how long people have been out of work, plus a page of result summaries.
• The New Zealand Rugby Museum with archived data (see, e.g., All Black Tests link).

Software

• StatCrunch (was WebStat). Includes dynamic graphics.
• GhostMiner Data mining software integrating databases with analysis and visualisation techniques.
• Lots of links to mathematical and scientific software.
• Dave Fournier's AD Model Builder
• The XploRe home page, and the MD*Crypt XQS/XQC protocol.
• Jasp java based stats package with example web interface.
• Luke Tierney's Lisp-Stat
• Goose -- GNU statistical software based on GSL -- The GNU Scientific Library
• BUGS
• A program called Root, which does graphics among other things.
• The Weka project (Data mining, etc). Java source.

Departments and Organisations

• University of Auckland Department of Statistics (internal)
• NZSA; ASC/NZSA 2006.
• ASA home page (JSM 2002, JSM 2003, JSM 2006).
• ASA page on hosting section web pages
• ASA Section on Statistical Graphics.
• ASA Section on Statistical Graphics wiki.
• Web interface for moderating stat-graphics-exec-l@mail.amstat.org
• ASA Section on Statistical Computing.
• ASA Consulting Section. Includes useful reference lists.
• RSS home page.
  • RSS examination resources
• The International Statistics Institute.
• CAMS home page.

Books, Courses, and Other Resources

• An on-line version of The Data Analysis BriefBook : "a condensed handbook, or an extended glossary, written in encyclopedic format, covering subjects in statistics, computing, analysis, and related fields.".
• An on-line book called "Resampling: The New Statistics" (though as BDR pointed out, it is more about simulation than resampling).
• The Statlib index
• The ISI Glossary of Statistical Terms.
• HyperStat: A very comprehensive set of discussions of a very wide range of statistical topics in a pretty good level of detail. Plus lots of other links.
• StatSoft's Electronic Txtbook.
• Prophet StatGuide
• M. T. Dorak's Common Concepts in Statistics
• A Compendium of Common Probability Distributions.
• Robert A. Stine's web pages on Bootstrapping
• The Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
• The Current Index to Statistics
• Frank Harrell's page of regression resources and links.
• Robert Wolfe's Home Page with lots of links to pdf files explaining statistical topics.
• High-school-level Q&A on general mathematical (including a couple of statistical) topics.
• A site which helps you decide what statistical test to use (!)
• A free chapter from Intuitive Biostatistics all about choosing the right sort of statistical test (has a little bit about Fisher's exact vs Chi-square too).
• University of Texas Consulting Centre Stats FAQ.
• A Stats FAQ compiled by Rich Ulrich.
• The Yahoo page of Statistics links.
• UCLA Statistics Textbook
• Brian Bianco, Dominique Simons, and Tara Alexander's Decision Tree for selecting an appropriate statistical test.
• Indiana University Stat/Math Center Statistical Software Support
• UCLA Academic Technology Services SAS Library SAS Web Resources
• Gerard E. Dallal's Little Handbook of Statistical Practice. With link to BMJ "Statistics Notes" collection.
• Some Experimental Design course notes by Steve Kachman.
• The SPSS Help Archives
• The on-line help for SAS version 8.
• A collection of Jim Lindsey's unpublished manuscripts.
• The MathematicsWeb site for searching journals in Pure Maths, Applied Maths, and Statistics.
• Frank Harrell's page of Statistical Computing and Graphics links.
• The Ibiblio statistics page; public domain documents or links thereto.
• James Gentle's home page, with links to lots of his writing on Computational Statistics.
• An informal document with lots of tips on how to work correctly with data (save your syntax files, put comments in your analysis code, ...)