Applied Statistics: Internet Resources for Teachers
Applied statistics courses are a core component to developing student skills in quantitative inquiry. Various UB departments offer classes. Here are a beginning set of shared resources providing cross-fertilization and mutual support among the teachers of applied statistics.
Journals/Articles
Journals
- Current Statistics Journals received at UB Health Sciences Library (HSL):
(For these and other statistics journal holdings in HSL and SEL, consult BISON )
- Advances in applied probability
- American statistician
- Annals of applied probability
- Annals of probability
- Annals of statistics
- Applied statistics
- Australian journal of statistics
- Canadian journal of statistics
- Chance
- Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Journal of applied probability
- Journal of multivariate analysis
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, statistics in society
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, methodological
- Journal of statistical planning and inference
- Journal of theoretical probability
- Probability in the engineering and informational sciences
- Psychometrika
- Sankhya. Series A: methods and techniques
- Sankhya. Series B: Methodological
- Scandinavian journal of statistics, theory and applications
- South African statistical journal
- Statistica neerlandica
- Statistical methods in medical research
- Statistical science
- Statistician
- Statistics & decisions
- Statistics and probability letters
- Statistics in medicine
- Stochastic analysis and applications
- Stochastic processes and their applications
- Technometrics
- Theory of probability and its applications
- Theory of probability and mathematical statistics
Newletters & Bulletins
Books
Undergraduate Texts
- List of Undergraduate Textbooks maintained by Ann Cannon at Cornell College.
Online Statistics Texts
- Hyperstat (German text)
- The Study of Stability in Variation (UCLA)
Online Glossaries
- Data Analysis BriefBook
- Evidence Based Medicine Glossary
- A Glossary of Statistics (in particular, re-randomisation statistics)
- Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
Data Sets
- Classic
- The CIA World Factbook
- DASL (Data and Story Library)
- Official Statistics (IASC's list of National Statistics Institutes WWW servers)
- Statistical Reference Datasets from NIST
- UCLA Statistics Department links to datasets
- Modern
Colleges & Universities
NOTE: UB has identified a set of "peer institutions" (*) to be used as a standard for comparison in evaluating the Universities' progress toward its academic goals.
North America
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Iowa State University *
- Rice University
- Simon Fraser University
- UC Davis *
- UC Irvine *
- UC Santa Barbara *
- University of Alabama/Huntsville
- University of Colorado/Boulder *
- University of Iowa
- University of Missouri/Columbia *
- University of Nebraska *
- University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill *
- University of Oregon *
- University of Pittsburgh *
- University of Virginia *
Worldwide
Courses in Statistics
Courses on the Web:
Test Components
- Links to Sample Test and Quiz Questions maintained by Al Coons at the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School.
Professional Associations
Publishers
- Links to Statistics Textbook Publishers - maintained by Robin Lock at St. Lawrence University
Software
General
- Sila The program Sila demonstrates the basics of inference.
Applets
- Analyze Data with the Data Applet
- The Central Limit Theorem in Action
- An Epidemic Applet
- Guessing Correlations
- Histogram Applet
- Index of On-Line Utilities and Software at Hofstra
- Interesting Java Applets
- Java Applets for Teaching
- Let's Make a Deal Applet
- Monty Hall Problem
- Power of a Hypothesis Test Applet
- Regression Applet
- Statlets - 100% Pure Java Applets for Statistical Analysis and Graphics
- VassarStats
- WebDice









