Statistics Links

Links to Sites of Interest to Statistics Teachers and Students: (updated 8/18/05)

Data Sets
http://statweb.calpoly.edu/chance/stat_stuff.html Stat pages compiled by Beth Chance, Cal Poly

Data and Story Library ,DASL. Data sets organized by content and by methodology
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/

StatLib It has some interesting data sets including information on US Colleges
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/

The Gallup Organization Web Site (information about public opinion polls,particularly look at the FAQ page on how polls are conducted)

Data sets from the Journal Of Statistics Education
http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/

CHANCE data sets. CHANCE is a "quantitative literacy course". Data sets are based on current events.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/

Other places to look courtesy of Robin Lock of St. Lawrence Univ.
http://it.stlawu.edu/~rlock/datasurf.html
http://it.stlawu.edu/~rlock/sports.html (sports data)

Fishing for Data using the Net...lots of links collected by category
http://faculty.babson.edu/turner/fish.html

http://www.census.gov Data from the US Census Bureau

Data sets and other web sites for health science
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm (National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse)

http://wonder.cdc.gov/ (access to Center for Disease Control reports and numeric public health data. Searchable)

http://www.ahcpr.gov/ (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research)

Online textbook:

Hyperstat Online

Online course materials

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/rvls.html (Rice Virtual lab in Statistics, nice collection on simulations, case studies)

JAVA applets:

http://statweb.calpoly.edu/chance/applets/applets.html

http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/CLT.html (a demonstration of the Central Limit Theorem)

http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/Regression.html(students can add an extra point to a scatter plot and see what it does to the regression line)

http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/Histogram.html (see what changing the interval size does to a histogram of Old Faithful eruption times)

http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/ConfidenceInterval.html(change the confindence level and see how it affects confidence intervals)

http://www.stat.sc.edu/rsrch/gasp/ Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures (GASP)

Journal of Statistics Education

http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/ (an online journal with interesting articles and teaching tips)

Minitab tutorials