Links to external statistics web sites

Journals

• [http://www.statsjournalsweb.com/ StatsWeb] BR Statistical Journals including RSS

Glossary of statistical terms

• [http://www.conceptstew.co.uk/PAGES/freeresources2.html] BR Definitions of statistics jargon

Books

• [http://www.rateragreement.com] BR Statistical Methods for Rater Agreement, by John Uebersax

  [http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/statnote.htm] BR Statnotes: Topics in Multivariate Analysis An Online Textbook, by G. David Garson

Issues

• [http://www.uoregon.edu/~robinh/analysis.html] BR Robin High's Data Analysis pages, including discussions of zeros in contingency tables

  [http://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/Schunn/SSB/index.html] BR Statistical Significance Bars (Schunn)

  [http://www.minitab.com/resources/whitepapers/burril2.htm] BR Modeling and Interpreting Interactions in Multiple Regression (Donald F. Burrill)

  [http://www.creative-wisdom.com/computer/sas/collinear_orthogonalization.htm] BR Multi-collinearity Variance Inflation and Orthogonalization in Regression (Dr. Chong-ho (Alex) Yu)

  [http://www.lsp.ups-tlse.fr/Projet_QS/index.html] BR Quasi-symmetry site, based on Caussinus (1966)

  [http://archneur.ama-assn.org/issues/v58n5/ffull/nlt0501-2.html] BR The use and abuse of correlation coefficients. This link seems broken (July 2006) [http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/58/5/833] contains a summary of this article.

  [http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/rho.html] BR Confidence Intervals for the correlation coefficient

  [http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~mbrannic/files/regression/regma.htm] BR Explanation of multiple regression using matrix algebra

Software

• [http://calculators.stat.ucla.edu/] BR Free (on-line or downloadable) software with a spreadsheet interface for most common statistical analyses including Fisher's Exact test and between subjects ANOVA (click on Statistical Analysis)

  [http://franz.stat.wisc.edu/pub/NLME/] BR NLME: Software for mixed-effects models (Pinheiro and Bates)

  [http://www.octave.org/] BR Octave - GNU Matlab-lookalike

  [http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Online/power/] BR Power analysis for ANOVAs

  [http://www.stat-help.com/spreadsheets.html] BR A variety of EXCEL spreadsheet programs. The effect size calculators in the 'Meta-analysis' section are particularly worth a look.

  [http://www.sagebrushpress.com/PEPI/] BR Computer Programs for Epidemiologic Analyses: PEPI v. 4.0 J.H. Abramson and P.M. Gahlinger

  [http://www.swin.edu.au/victims/resources/software/software.html] BR Downloadable software for computing some Effect Sizes such as Cohen's d which can be used as input for power computations.

  [http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/prevmed/ps/] BR Power analysis for many statistics including Regressions and Survival Analysis (downloadable software by William D. Dupont and Walton D. Plummer, Jr.)

  [http://www.aprendelo.com/rec/power-calculator.html] BR Power Calculators

  [http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/Macros.htm] BR Raynald Levesque's website has various SPSS syntax and macros mainly by him.

  [http://pspp.michelboaventura.com/en/downloads-2/?lang=en] BR Free open-source version of SPSS that performs descriptives, t-tests, regressions and non-parametric tests. There is a user manual available from [http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/Concept-Index.html] BR

  [http://www2.jura.uni-hamburg.de/instkrim/kriminologie/Mitarbeiter/Enzmann/Software/Enzmann_Software.html] BR Dirk Enzmann has written a collection of stand-alone programs, SPSS, R and EXCEL macros to perform a variety of tasks including comparisons of standardised regression coefficients (stand-alone software) and interaction plots (in EXCEL).

  [http://www.spss.com/spss/data_management_book.htm] BR Raynald Levesque has co-authored this downloadable SPSS syntax guide. Note that python can only be used in SPSS Version 14.0 and above.

  [http://www.john-uebersax.com/stat/index.htm] BR Latent Class Analysis (John Uebersax)

  [http://stat.tamu.edu/ftp/pub/mspeed/stat653/spss/] BR Downloadable (free) SPSS statistical macros (includes BoxCox transform and contour plotting

  [http://stat.tamu.edu/~mspeed/spss/general.html] BR SPSS videos illustrating use of statistical procedures

  [http://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/grubbs2.cfm] BR Outlier detection tool using Grubb's Test

  [http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/gpc/] BR Genetic Power Calculator (Sean Purcell and P C Sham)

@article{Purcell2004Bioinformatics,
  author = {Purcell, S and Cherny, S S and Sham, P C},
  year = {2003},
  title = {{G}enetic {P}ower {C}alculator: design of linkage and association genetic mapping studies of complex traits.},
  journal = {{B}ioinformatics}, 
  volume = {19},
  number = {1},
  pages = {149-150}}

Groups

• [http://www.spssusers.co.uk] BR Details of the SPSS Users' Group

Miscellany

• [http://www.workjoke.com/projoke48.htm] BR Jokes about statistics and statisticians

  [http://xkcd.com/795/] BR Cartoons about statistics

  [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS9GmU5hr5w] BR The Statz Rap!

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