General Statistical Resources

From the major search engines. Many of these resources contain similar information.

• WWW Virtual Library: Statistics An actively maintained list of statistics departments, associations, data archives, newsgroups, etc
• StatLib Index . The main entry point to the StatLib web at CMU. Extensive collections of statistical software, data, etc.
• Yahoo! - Science:Mathematics:Statistics
• Software, Data, and other computer stuff . Pointers to Splus, SAS, Xlispstat, minitab, etc. from Penn State
• Statistical Computing Resources on the Internet . Links to ftp sites, gophers, newsgroups, and WWW docs related to SAS, SPSS, BMDP, etc., from University of Michigan
• More Web Resources . From Bret Muser at UMN. Lists statistics departments by country, mailing list archives, news groups, statistical archives.
• National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) . This catalog surveys software currently accessible by following links from the NHSE home page . The software includes parallel processing tools, numerical libraries, data analysis and visualization tools, and application libraries and programs relevant to HPCC. Software items have been abstracted and tagged with indexing keywords.
• WAIS Search of stats-l archive
• Other statistical sites
• Software, Data, and other computer stuff Pointers to Splus, SAS, Xlispstat, minitab, etc. from Penn State
• Biostatistics Information Sources An excellent collection of pointers by Tony Rossini at Univ. Washington
• Journal of Statistics Education Home Page (and a European mirror site for JSE )
• Graphics Hotlist comp.graphics.* newsgroups and FAQs
• InterStat Online journal: statistics on the internet. Papers are available in Adobe .pdf format and in PostScript.
• Books, Journals, Preprints, Abstracts A comprehensive list of publications related to mathematics and statistics, from McGill.
• MathSearch -- mathematical Web material Search a collection of over 60,000 documents on English-language mathematics and statistics servers across the Web. This could be the Yahoo of Mathematics and Statistics.
• EDU2 : Math links A large number of mathematics and statistics links
• CTI Statistics and Computer-based teaching in Statistics
  Part of the CTI project to encourage use of learning technology in the UK
• Links related to Statistics Education
  A comprehensive list by J Puranen in Helsinki. Course-related materials are well classified.
• Statistics on the Web. Clay Helberg's compilation. Don't miss his paper, Pitfalls of Data Analysis
• Mathematics On-Line Bookshelf
  Publishers information on mathematics books.

Statistical Associations

• American Statistical Association What do Florence Nightingale, Alexander Graham Bell, Herman Hollerith, Andrew Carnegie and Martin van Buren have in common?
  
• Graphics Section of the ASA The Statistical Graphics section maintains a video lending library, and conducts bi-annual data expositions at ASA meetings.
• Statistical Computing and Graphics Newsletters
• ASA Consulting Section Information
• SIAM World Wide Web Server Links to SIAM journals, membership list, books, conferences, etc.
• TeX MACROS SIAM provides macro packages for TeX, LaTeX, and AMS-TeX for SIAM's journals, books, and conference publications.
• Classification Society of North America Lists meetings programme; contains WAIS-searchable bibliographies of classification-related journal papers.
• International Assoc for Statistical Computing (IASC)
• Statistical Computing and Graphics Newsletters from the ASA Section on Statistical Graphics
• Computational Statistics

University Statistics Resources

• Gallery of Data Visualization displays some examples of the Best and Worst in statistical graphics, with the view that the contrast may be useful, inform current practice, and provide some pointers to current work.
• Annotated Bibliography of Articles for the Statistics User. . A collection of references on selected statistical topics, assembled by Loren McMaster.
• Institute for Social Research . The Institute provides consultation and support services to the University. For researchers from other universities, government agencies, public organizations and the private sector, the Institute conducts research projects, provides consultation on research design, and undertakes data collection, data processing and statistical analysis on a fee-for-service basis.
• Statistical Society of Canada Maintains a page of links to statistics pages, conferences, statistical organizations, government agencies, and Canadian university statistics departments.
• Stanford Graphics Home Page
• Case Studies in Data Analysis

Statistics Departments & Groups

The most extensive list of statistics departments is maintained on the WWW Virtual Library: Statistics . Listed below are a few with interesting WWW collections.

• U.Washington Statistics Department WWW Home Page
• Indiana Center for Statistical and Mathematical Computing
  Many software user guides and documents on SAS, SPSS, BMDP, LISREL, GLIM, etc
• Stat/Math Documents A variety of Getting Started docs (SPSS, SAS, MATLAB, Maple)
• Memorial Univ. Math &Stats Home Page
• Penn State Department of Statistics
• Cologne Univ Statistics WWW Pointers to statistical discussion groups, datasets, conferences, etc.
• Univ of Michigan's Center for Statistical Consultation &Research (CSCAR)
  SAS stuff, short courses
• UCLA Statistics Server Technical report series, teaching materials, plus the xlispstat archive. More specific links to this material change frequently, so check back here if you get "Document Not Found".
• Wharton Compstat Web Server
• Dalhousie MSCS Home Page . X-windows tutorial, assorted unix guides, S plus tutorial
• StatLab Heidelberg A large collection of technical reports, Project Voyager - an extensible programming environment for statistical computing and simulation, based on Oberon.
• Univ Memphis -Statistical Services
• U Texas, Austin: Statistical Services Offers keyword search of online documentation (SAS, SPSS, Systat, etc.) See also: TBN's Statistical Tidbits
• AT&T Bell Labs. See also: Ongoing Research Projects SPlus, Visualization, Trellis and other ATT stats group projects.
• Los Alamos Labs Graphics &Visualization
• York Mathematics &Statistics home page

SAS stuff

• SAS Institute Inc. The main entry point to SAS Institute's WWW server. Here are a few locations I find useful:
• Documentation and Publications Links to publications catalog, Observations, Books by Users, Online Code Samples
• Publications data set index SAS programs and most data sets from SAS Institute books are avalable by ftp in the directory containing this index file
• Technical Support Services Links to all SAS technical support services (FTP access, FAQs, EMITS, TSNEWS, etc.)
• SAS Technical Notes
• WAIS search SAS 6 Notes Search the Version 6 SAS usage notes by keyword or title
• SAS Sample Library
• Newsgroup comp.soft-sys.sas The SAS discussion newsgroup, colloquially known as "SAS-L" from its BITNET days. Ask a question, and you'll likely get a variety of useful replies (or be told to RTFM).
• JSE SAS-L archive
  The main gopher menu for the Journal of Statistical Education's SAS-L archive
• WAIS search SAS-L recent Search SAS-L postings by keywords using the most recent JSE wais database (Jan 94+)
• WAIS search SAS-L all Search SAS-L postings by keywords using the entire JSE wais database. Try again later if the server is down.
• JSE SAS program archive Contrubuted SAS programs, macros, etc., formerly available through LISTSERV at UICVM. The files are arranged in topical collections, with .PAK extensions; these are simply text files, not some new kind of exotic archive file. Check out the readme file to see what's here.
• SAS Information Guides
• An extensive collection of SAS Information Guides Introductory guides, SAS procedures, SAS/IML, SAS/GRAPH syntax summaries, sample programs, etc. at York Univiersity
• Introduction to SAS . A set of SAS guides covering datasteps, procedures, linear models, multivariate analysis, macros, by Brian Yandell at Wisconsin.
• Using SAS on UNIX . How to run SAS non-interactively, interactively, or with X-windows
• SAS Manual for AIX
• Using Compressed Files in SAS under UNIX This TechTip outlines various ways to use compressed data, both raw (ASCII) and system files (binary), in SAS under UNIX
• SAS Data Steps
• SAS Statistical Software Help documents from USC: SAS on unix, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/CONNECT
• TJU SAS support . SAS Support at Thomas Jefferson University. Contains pointers to local and WWW SAS resources, SAS programs and macros, maintained by George Theall .
• SAS File Contribution Server
  The Sample Library File Contribution Server is a repository of user-contributed SAS applications that resides on an FTP file server ( ftp://ftp.uga.edu/pub/sas/contrib/). It accepts contributions and downloads contributions of SAS applications or programs via anonymous FTP or through an e-mail interface.
• UGA Gopher Menu . Connections to SAS ftp/gopher sites, SAS-L archive, and a collection of local docs, user's guides and FAQ lists
• WWW at Salsa Links to Salsa gopher ( small macro collection, docs, SAS/CONNECT scripts), JSE, www &ftp at sas.com
• SAS Tips Phil Mason's collected and indexed at Thomas Jefferson Univ.
• SAS/GRAPH
• Introduction to SAS/GRAPH Extended notes from my old Short Course on SAS/GRAPH, with links to SAS/GRAPH syntax summaries and examples.
• SAS for Statistical Graphics, 1st Edition . A great book!
• SAS/Graph Guide (gopher) . An introduction to SAS/GRAPH from Virginia Tech
• SAS Frequently-Asked Questions. Various FAQ lists are floating around. None are very comprehensive.
• SAS Frequently-Asked Questions from USC.
• Athena SAS Answers A collection of how to guides from MIT
• SAS FAQ from Cornell.
• SAS®Tips and Samples
• SAS on the WWW
• SAS on the WWW WebPower, Sieve Diagrams, Running SAS on the Web
• Experimental map server An impressive demonstration of the use of a cgi script to run SAS/GRAPH from a web form. Two examples, using county-level or state-level maps. Select the variables you want displayed in a form, then click Map It .
• IPPBR Data about Kansas . cgi-sas examples and scripts
• A Java Glyph graph - Fisher Iris data . A Java applet displays 4 dimensional data (Fisher's Iris data) as a glyph plot.
• Arnold Schick's macro collection
  A set of SAS macros for a variety of statistical and graphics operations on data sets.

SPSS

• The SPSS web site
• SPSS-L Discussion archives at jse.stat.ncsu.edu
• SPSS Resources: A Guide to Statistical Computing Resources on the Internet
• SPSS Data Sets
  A collection of SPSS datasets, with descriptions and suggested analyses.
• Running SPSS under UNIX How to run SPSS in noninteractive, or interactive mode, from UT Austin.

S Plus

• Statistical Science Home Page
• Splus tutorial A nice introductory tutorial, from Dalhousie. Covers simple operations, entering data, through writing functions, graphical methods, model building, etc.
• Splus FAQ - Table of Contents
• S-news Archive (Statlib) S-news archive, in digest form from the time of its creation. Now has a search capability.
• Trellis Graphics in S and S-PLUS . Contains links to postscript documents describing Trellis. Also, Cleveland's Visualizing Data book, and /netlib/att/stat/doc, a variety of S-related papers, in .ps.Z format.

Mathematica

• Wolfram Research, Inc.
• MathSource Home Page MathSource is an extensive collection of Mathematica code and documents.
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Mathematica Demo An interactive demonstration of some of Mathematica's capabilities, run over the web.
• Mathematica Courseware
  This page lists schools that have developed and implemented Mathematica courseware.
• MathGroup
• Mathematica World
• Interactive Learning in Calculus and Differential Equations with Applications A collection of Mathematica notebooks from Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Data Visualization & Statistical Graphics

• The SCS Gallery of Data Visualization displays some examples of the Best and Worst in statistical graphics.
• Scientific Visualization and Graphics An extensive and growing list of pointers from the University of Minnesota.
• Annotated Scientific Visualization Weblet Bibliography A descriptive listing of (hopefully) all scientific visualization web sites (classified in university, government, commercial and military groupings), maintained by Al Globus at NAS.
• Graphics FAQ lists
  A comprehensive list of FAQs and newsgroups related to statistical graphics and data visualization
• Visualization Resources
  Brian Johnson's list, with a high concentration in Human Computer Interaction.
• IBM Visualization Data Explorer (DX)
• ACM SIGGRAPH
• SIGGRAPH Online Bibliography Project
  This Hyper-G server maintains an up-to-date database of computer graphics literature. The majority of the major journals and conference proceedings between the mid-1970's and the present are listed here.
• SARA Visualization Center
• webNews: Visualization
• Interactive Illustrations of Color Perception . A tutorial on color perception, with interactive illustrations. Requires Java for maximum impact.
• CSC graphics links
• UCSC Computer Graphics . Links to many computer graphics and visualization groups.
• The Geometer's Sketchpad
  A geometry drawing package (Windows, MAC) which can be set up as a helper app for WWW courses.
• IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '96)
• University of Toronto Dynamic Graphics Project home page
• Visualization of Local Inflation Rates A class project at GMU designed to combine the power of information dissemination of the World Wide Web with the principles and concepts of data visualization, using S-PLUS.
• CISAT Data Visualization Archive. Data library, case studies, and an on-line intro statistics tutorial.
• Multivariate Display of Geographic Data
• Experimental analysis about the graphic presentation of data in line.... (In German, with abstracts in English. Also, an excellent collection of some WWW-links to graphical perception of data (The page is in German, but the links mostly lead to english texts.)
  [charts, graphs, bar chart, line graph, superposition, juxtaposition, graphical perception]

Online courses

• TLTP STEPS Home Page . Statistical Education through Problem Solving, organized under the UK Teaching and Learning Techniology Programme to produce computer-based teaching materials organized around substantive problems in various content areas (biology, business, geography and psychology)
• UCLA Course listing Courses in Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Computation with Xlisp-Stat, Advanced Regression Analysis, many others, both graduate and undergraduate.
• UCLA Case Studies A set of nearly 30 content-based case studies of statistical practice by David Draper and George Michailides at UCLA, most with questions and HTML student worsheets.
• CS450/550: Introduction to Computer Graphics Online computer graphics course using IBM's DX
• Introduction to Quantitative Methods . Gene Glass' course at Arizona State Univ
• Elements of Educational Statistics
• STAT101: Introductory Statistics
  An online introductory stats textbook
• Univ Michigan Statistics Courses Noteworthy: Teaching materials . Course notes by J Faraway on Regression and Anova in S+, Generalized Linear Models
• Statistical Graphics in Screen Design
• Mathematics Archives - Lessons and Tutorials . An extensive list, more related to mathematics than statistics per se.
• Math 102 . Introductory Statistics course at Colgate, with online exercises (excel)
• Vectors . An online course in vector geometry using Geometry Sketchpad.
• MATH 1057EZ . A distance education course on Elementary Linear Algebra (with a JavaScript matrix calculator)
• Gary McClelland: Courses . Undergraduate and graduate statistics courses by Gary McClelland, with a Mathematica &SAS flavor. Contains some nice Mathematica demonstration notebooks.
• MAT 7405 - Statistical Methods II - Villanova University . A course in regression/ANOVA by Tom Short with many SAS datasets, exercises.
• Electronic Encyclopedia of Exercises and Examples

Data

• Data Sources (Statistics, WWW Virtual Library)
  A large listing of data sources maintained by David Rosen as part of the WWW Virtual Library.
• StatLib---Datasets Archive . The most extensive and well-known collection of statistical data sets, including those from many statistics texts, and those from the ASA Graphics Exposition symposia.
• The Data and Story Library . DASL ("dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. They can be searched by subject area and statistical/methodological topic.
• Dr. B's Wide World of Web Data -- From ASU Research Methods
  An extensive set of links to interesting datasets and depictions of data throughout the WWW.
• Frederic Udina's dataset collection A collection of interesting small datasets useful in teaching, many not found elsewhere (including those from Chaterjee, Handcock & Simonoff's Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis [300K!]). There's a .tex description file in Spanish.
• JSE dataset archive
• Social Indicators of Development
  World Bank datasets. Requires a special client app (Win/X available) to access the datasets.
• BMDP manual datasets . 45 files containing all the datasets used in the BMDP manual, the from University of Cologne.
• The CHANCE Database
  This data base contains materials designed help teach a CHANCE course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course.
• Data Sets for Teaching Statistics
  From UCLA: Cox & Snell, Andrews & Herzberg, Hand et al, etc.
• Stat 5163 -- More Datafiles
  Many data sets (a lot from Agresti's book), in xlisp format, for Weisberg's course, Nonlinear and Generalized Linear Models.
• Case Studies in Data Analysis
• Bureau of Justice Statistics home page The Bureau of Justice Statistics web site is a comprehensive collection of statistics about US crime, victims, criminals, courts, police, jails and prisons.
• Bureau of Justice Statistics home page
  The Bureau of Justice Statistics web site is a comprehensive collection of statistics about US crime, victims, criminals, courts, police, jails and prisons
• Milliken &Johnson (Analysis of Messy Data) datasets
• ICPSR Homepage
• JASA dataset archive
  Data sets related to articles published in JASA.
• Data Library An archive of data-sets that lend themselves to exploratory data analysis. Each data set is prefaced with an annotation page, giving a complete description of the variables and the source of the data
• Data Sources Mike Meyer's Data set listing, from an ASA presentation.
• Andrews - Herzberg DATA All the files from the DATA book, individually and as one .tar.Z file.
• Datasets from Sen/Srivastava: Regression Analysis

Other Statistical / Graphics Software

• ALSCAL Multidimensional Scaling Program
• Resampling Stats Home Page . Information about resampling methods (bootstrap), and the Resampling Stats software
• Gnuplot
• Multilevel Models Project . This page introduces some basic information about the Multilevel Models Project at the Institute of Education, University of London together with details of software, working papers, datasets, and an introduction to multilevel models.
• Introduction to Multilevel Modelling
• MLn - Multilevel Analysis
• Provalis Research
  Simstat for Windows/DOS, item analysis software, multivariate analysis program, etc.
• StatSoft Inc
  Statistica for Windows/Mac - a comprehensive, integrated statistical data analysis, graphics, and data base management system.
• Manet
  Manet - an interactive graphical analysis of statistical data for the MAC
• Statistical power analysis software A comprehensive list of software for power analyses, with extensive notes, links, pointers to reviews.
• NSDstat+ NSDstat+ is a statistical program which is primarily intended as an easy-to-use system with fast response times. The original NSDstat program was made mainly for educational purposes, and this approach is one of the reasons why it still stands out as an extremely user friendly program, not the least for users with a low or intermediate level of statistical knowledge.
• |STAT Data Analysis Package Gary Perlman's data manipulations and analysis programs for Unix and MSDOS. The "|" in the name indicates the style of a collection of data analysis utilities which can be strung together as pipes. There's a comprehensive manual and examples in the package.
• Software for Manipulating or Displaying NetCDF Data
• STATGRAPHICS Plus An extensible, interactive system for statistical graphics (Windows).
• Graphics and analysis software
  An extensive and annotated list of (mostly) UNIX software that can be used to perform graphics and data analysis.

Credits: most of the above links were obtained from Michael Friendly's home page.

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