Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources
This page provides a topic-based collection of available resources for statistics, statistical graphics, and computation related to research, data analysis and teaching, now containing over 310 links. There is both some redundancy (some sites listed more than once, or separate listings for different documents maintained at a single place), and some unevenness (it largely reflects my idiosyncratic interests) in this list, but I hope it's useful nonetheless.
The page has grown to the point where it should be subdivided and reorganized. That process has begun, and the address for this page may need to change to reflect that reorganization.
General statistical resources
Mainly a collection of similar lists (though with different focus) maintained elsewhere. Look at one of these if you don't find what you're looking for here.
- 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.
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Statistical Associations
- American Statistical Association What do Florence Nightingale, Alexander Graham Bell, Herman Hollerith, Andrew Carnegie and Martin van Buren have in common?
- 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
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York Statistics Resources
- York Mathematics &Statistics home page
Their Gauss Lab page provides access to web resources for a number of statistics courses.
- York Psychology home page
The Pavlov lab page has pointers to information on undergraduate and graduate statistics courses in Psychology.
- SCS home page York's Statistical Consulting Service
- Our 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 for SCS clients.
- My home page There are many links here to my work on statistical graphics, SAS macros, and teaching materials.
- 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.
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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
- 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
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SAS stuff
- SAS Institute Inc. The main entry point to SAS Institute's WWW server. Here are a few locations I find useful:
- 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
SAS Tips
, collected and indexed at Thomas Jefferson Univ.
- SAS/GRAPH
- SAS Frequently-Asked Questions. Various FAQ lists are floating around. None are very comprehensive.
- SAS on the WWW
- Arnold Schick's macro collection
A set of SAS macros for a variety of statistical and graphics operations on data sets.
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SPSS
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LispStat
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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.
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Mathematica
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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]
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Psychology & Psychometrics
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Online courses
- Psychology 3030: Intermediate Statistics My upper-level undergraduate course in Regression/ANOVA/Experimental Design with lots of SAS examples.
- Psychology 6140: Multivariate Data Analysis
- Statistics Teaching References . Some links to class home pages and other information for using WWW for teaching, by Tony Rossini. The pages run the gamut from introductory information about the syllabus, books, etc, to actually containing course notes.
- Stat 438: Graphical Data Analysis
Graphical Data Analysis : Discusses how to use graphical techniques to find patterns in data and present results to others. The course explores topics ranging from human visual perception and computer vision to conditional expectation and empirical distributions. There is a special off-campus page to help Internet visitors get started. Syllabus, calendar, lecture notes, assignments, and links to related materials. By Jeff Banfield, Montana State University.
- Statistics 5302 Student Information
- Statistics 5161 Student Information
- 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
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Online WWW Statistics
- Free Computing Some links to interactive conputing; run free Xlisp-Stat and other programs on the UCLA server.
- Confidence interval for correlation coefficient Obtain a confidence interval for rho from a form, with a step-by-step explanation.
- NetMul a WWW online multivariate analysis system from Univ Lyon, performs correspondence analysis and related techniques over the net., provides gnuplot output.
- GASP homepage The University of South Carolina Statistics Department's Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures project.
- The GASP Tutorial A nice beginning tutorial on how to create interactive statistical applications on the WWW
- WebPower . Power analysis for any ANOVA design.
- Designing Clinical Trials
Some sample size determination forms
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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
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- 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
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Categorical Data Analysis
- Visualization of Categorical Data Conference Program and abstracts for the conference held in Cologne, Germany, May, 1995.
- Categorical Data Analysis System A collection of MSDOS programs for a wide variety of analyses, including loglinear models, latent class analysis, etc. There are 3 zip archives: CDAS, 1of3 , CDAS, 2of3 , and CDAS, 3of3
- Ulysses Guide . A cross-tabulation engine on the www that works via telnet, from CIESIN.
- SDIS-GSEQ Home Page. Software for Sequential Analysis
- GLIM
- Paul Allison's Home Page. Describes short courses in Categorical Data Analysis and Event History/Survival Analysis using SAS.
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Other statistical / graphics software
- Arcus Pro-Stat Their blurb:
Arcus Pro-Stat is a powerful yet very easy to use research tool for the PC. The novice user is advised on experimental design, analysis and interpretation by the integrated statistical hypertext. Results screens are given in plain language, not jargon.
- Kovach Computing Services Home Page Lists several shareware and public domain statistical packages for PCs, including the shareware ordination and clustering program MVSP
- iec ProGAMMA Home Page . A social science software database
- ALSCAL Multidimensional Scaling Program
- Resampling Stats Home Page . Information about resampling methods (bootstrap), and the Resampling Stats software
- Gnuplot
- Stanford Graphics Home Page
- 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.
- 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.
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Unix
- Quick Commands for Unix
- Scott Miller's Unix tutorial . An introduction to unix for novice users.
- Unix for VM users Migration aids for moving from VM/CMS to Unix, from Cern
- UNIXhelp for users Offers a large collection of helpful information for UNIX users, extensively hyperlinked
- Dalhousie MSCS Home Page . X windows tutorial, assorted unix guides, S plus tutorial
- Using SAS on UNIX . How to run SAS non-interactively, interactively, or with X-windows, from the University of Michigan
- Scott Miller's Unix tutorial An introduction to unix for novice users.
- Quick Commands for Unix
- UNIX Reference Desk A very comprehensive collection of Unix reference materiall (GNU texinfo pages, shells, editors, programming, operating systems, etc.) at Northwestern University.
- vi Editor Tutorial
- AIX User's Manual . Extensive documentation on AIX, including editors, X, shells, compilers, email, SAS, SPSS, etc.
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June 18, 2002
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