Statistical Education

A Forum on Time Series Analysis
Sponsored by the Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety. Contains links to the Homepages of Statisticians and Econometricians, International Journals, Research Institutes & Universities, and others .

ASA Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Information on the ASA Section dedicated to the study and use of nonparametric statistics.

A Few Links Related to Statistical Education
An extensive (not a few) list of links. Categorized into 17 groups, including Online Statistical Teaching Material, Journals, Statistical Courses- Handouts- Exercises (with 12 subcategories) etc. Maintained by Jura Puranen, Department of Statistics, University of Helsinki.

The CHANCE Database Welcome Page
Materials designed to help teach a Chance course or more standard introductory probability or statistics course. Maintained at Dartmouth College.

DASL, the Data and Story Library
Online library of data files and stories illustrating basic statistics methods. Maintained at Carnegie Mellon University.

The Data Mine
Information about Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Data Bases (KDD). Maintained at Birmingham University, England by Andy Pryke.

Donald Macnaughton Papers
A new approach to the Introductory Statistics Course

Ecological Modelling Resources Homepage
Extensive list of links related to ecological Modelling. Compiled by students of Environmental Studies and maintained by Joseph Ackerman of the Department of Environmental Studies, U. of Northern British Columbia.

Electronic Textbook - StatSoft
Online and downloadable statistics textbook available from StatSoft. There are 25 Chapters, including ANOVA/MANOVA, Classification Trees, Data Mining Techniques, Graphical Techniques, Log Linear Analysis, Neural Networks, Power Analysis, Survival Analysis, and Time Series/Forecasting.

Entropy on the World Wide Web
Links to provide the appreciation, understanding and applications of entropy in its many forms. Includes links to online expository articles and textbooks, relevant journals, conferences, research groups, and software. Sponsored by Chris Hillman of the University of Washington.

Exploring Data
Provides curriculum support materials for teachers of introductory statistics.

GMDH - Group Method of Data Handling
Reviews the GMDH approach and describes recent developments in complex systems modeling, forecasting, data mining and pattern recognition by the Group Method of Data Handling. Sponsored by the Cybernetic Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraina, Department of Inductive Modeling.

IDRISI Tutorial
Information on Idrisi, a Windows GIS package from Clark University.

ISDS Course Materials
Course information at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University. Links to many other sites.

Java Applets for Statistical Analysis & Graphics
From the developer of StatGraphics. Contains Academic & Commercial versions.

Java Statistical Applets
Links to Java applets at various sites for Distributions, Probability and Stochastic Processes, Statistics, Models and Examples.

MendelWeb
Educational resources for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science and the history and literature of science.

Power Calculator
Online power calculations for a number of distributions - from UCLA.

Recursive Partitioning
Information exchange for researchers and users of supervised and unsupervised learning methods that are based on recursive partitioning techniques (eg., classification and regression trees). Sponsored by Tjen-Sien Lim, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin.

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
Comprehensive interactive resource for studying statistics in 4 modules: Hyperstat Online, Simulations/Demonstrations, Case Studies, and Data Analysis Lab.

Statistics Every Writer Should Know
Discusses elementary statisitcal concepts. Includes Stats Board, where users can upload statistical questions, and Links to Data Sources on the Internet.

Statistical Educational Resource Kit at Penn State U.
Collection of resources used by faculty at PSU Department of Statistics in teaching a broad range of statistics courses.

StatLab Workshop
At University of Heidelberg, Germany. Information on Computational Statistics, Oberon software and other statistics links.

Sytse Knypstra's Page
Sytse Knypstra has software for teaching hypothesis testing and probability distributions. Site at University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Has links to other sites for teaching statistics.

UCLA Statistics Textbook
Online statistics text with interactive programs.

WebPower
Power Analysis for ANOVA Designs from York University, Canada. Calculations performed using a SAS macro program - available for downloading.

WebStat
Statistical computing environment written as a Java applet by Webster West at U. of South Carolina.


Charlie Hallahan hallahan@ers.usda.gov or
Brian C. Monsell brian.c.monsell@census.gov