Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources

Michael Friendly
Statistical Consulting Service and Psychology Department
York University

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General statistical resources

• Similar Lists
  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 Actively maintained lists 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.
  • Statistical Computing Resources on the Internet . Links to ftp sites, newsgroups, and WWW docs related to SAS, SPSS, BMDP, etc., from University of Michigan
  • 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.
  • Other statistical sites maintained by Kovacs software. An extensive list of FTP sites and specialized statistical software for various disciplines.
  • CTI 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 annotated compilation of Statistics links, including a large collection of consulting groups, educational resources (web courses, online textbooks), publications and publishers, links to statisticians' home pages. Don't miss his paper, Pitfalls of Data Analysis
  • WWW Resources and Bibliography - Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications
  • StatCodes StatCodes is a metasite with links to over 200 sites providing free on-line codes implementing statistical methods that may be useful to astronomers. Methods include time series analysis, multivariate analysis, censored and truncated data, nonparametric s tatistics, correlation and regression, Bayesian methods, density estimation and smoothing, image analysis, spatial statistics, visualization tools, interactive Web tools, and multipurpose statistics packages
  • The AI-GEOSTATS Page
    Gives information about available software & shareware commonly used in spatial statistics
  • The Probability Web: Home
  • Statistics Network
  • The List of Statistics Email Lists
    Mike Fuller's list of statistics email discussion groups and listserv lists.
  • Net Benefits - the revolution linking Statistics and ICT. Provides links to some of the articles in the Net Benefits series in the journal Teaching Statistics.
  • Wavelet resources- Karen Murphy's course project page.
• Search Services
  • Yahoo! - Science:Mathematics:Statistics
  • 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.
  • MathSciNet Home Page Search AMS publications; requires a subscription
  • Current Index to Statistics Query Server
    Home page for queries to the Current Index to Statistics, sponsored by American Stat Assn and Institute of Mathematical Stat. This is the portal for searchers both by subscribers and by nonsubscribers (free searches with some limitations). See also the CIS home page
• Online Journals and Publications
  (More listed under Statistical Associations) See also the extensive list of Statistical Journals (maintained by INRIA)
  • Journal of Statistics Education Home Page (and a European mirror site for JSE ). The JSE publishes quarterly; articles include novel approaches to teaching of statistics, interesting data sets used in teaching, etc. [Now taken over by the American Statistical Association.]
  • Journal of Statistical Software
    The Journal of Statistical Software is an electronic journal which publishes descriptions of software useful for statisticians, most (so far) in LispStat, and most with online demos.
  • InterStat Online journal: statistics on the internet. Papers are available in Adobe .pdf format and in PostScript.
  • Mathematics On-Line Bookshelf
    Publishers information on mathematics books. L128
  • Computational Statistics Data Analysis The journal of the International Association of Statistical Computing
  • Nelson Beebe's Bibliographies
    A HUGE collection of BibTeX files available in various formats (html, dvi, ps) on many subjects, including statistical and computational packages (e.g., BMDP, Mathematica SAS SPSS, S Plus) and several statistical journals ( Applied Statistics, CACM, Computer Graphics, etc).
  • Bibliography for Computational Probability and Statistics
    Lists web addresses for all major statistical journals. A long list of general resources, journal websites, books and journal articles. Many useful links, but no descriptions.
• Recreation
  • Statistical Humor A statistical joke collection
  • Gary Ramseyer's Archives of Statistics Fun
  • Gary Ramseyer's First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes
  • Statistician Jokes
• Other
  • Measurement theory: Frequently asked questions
    An atricle by Warren Sarle discussing the implications of measurement theory for statistical practice.
  • Data analysis FAQ
    Discussions on stepwise regression, cluster analysis, bootstrapping, etc.
  • Statistical List Subscription ServiceProvides an easy-to-use, form-based interface for subscribing to and unsubscribing from popular statisically-oriented e-mail lists. [Keywords: lists, e-mail, discussion groups]
  • Statistics Network Job opportunities, consulting services, etc. for statisticians in academia and industry.

Statistical Associations

• American Statistical Association What do Florence Nightingale, Alexander Graham Bell, Herman Hollerith, Andrew Carnegie and Martin van Buren have in common?
  
  • Graphics Section of the ASA The Statistical Graphics section maintains a video lending library, and conducts bi-annual data expositions at ASA meetings.
  • ASA Section on Statistical Computing
  • Statistical Computing and Graphics Newsletters from the ASA Section on Statistical Graphics.
    Most papers are avalable individually in PostScript format (.ps.Z) or PDF.
  • Statistical Computing and Graphics Newsletters
  • ASA Consulting Section Information
  • Statistical Graphics Section's Video Lending Library
    The graphics video library is an archive of great technical and historic interest which captures much of the history of dynamic graphics for data analysis over the past 30 years. The collection is currently composed of 30 or so tapes, typically in 1/2 inch VHS format.
  • The American Statistician, Volume 51 Contents
    Contents and abstracts for The American Statistician
  • Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
• 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.
• Allstat A UK-based worldwide e-mail broadcast system for the statistical community.
• International Assoc for Statistical Computing (IASC)
• Computational Statistics
• Statistical Society of Canada Maintains a page of links to statistics pages, conferences, statistical organizations, government agencies, Canadian university statistics departments, and Case Studies to be explored at annual meetings.
• Psychometrika, the journal of the Psychometric Society.

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 Psychology Computer 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.
• Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics and Data Visualization
• 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.

Statistics Departments & Groups

• FSU Statistics Page
• 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
  • Stat/Math Documents A variety of Getting Started docs (SPSS, SAS, MATLAB, Maple)
• Memorial Univ. Math &Stats Home Page
• Penn State Department of Statistics
• Cologne Univ Statistics WWW Pointers to statistical software, discussion groups, datasets, conferences, etc.
• Univ of Michigan's Center for Statistical Consultation & Research (CSCAR)
  SAS stuff, short courses
• University of Chicago Department of Statistics
• 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
• StatLab Heidelberg A large collection of technical reports, Project Voyager - an extensible programming environment for statistical computing and simulation, based on Oberon.
• U Texas, Austin: Statistical Services Offers a large collection of online documentation (SAS, SPSS, Systat, etc.), FAQs, tutorials, links, etc.
• Statistics Research at Bell Labs. See also: Ongoing Research Projects SPlus, Visualization, Trellis and other ATT stats group projects.
• Dept. of Statistics, University of Toronto
• University of California, Berkeley
• BYU Summer Institute
  BYU Summer Institute of Applied Statistics

SAS stuff

• SAS Institute Inc. The main entry point to SAS Institute's WWW server. Here are a few locations I find useful:
  • Documentation and Publications Links to publications catalog, Observations, Books by Users, Online Code Samples
  • Publications data set index SAS programs and most data sets from SAS Institute books are avalable by ftp in the directory containing this index file
  • Technical Support Services Links to all SAS technical support services (FTP access, FAQs, EMITS, TSNEWS, etc.)
  • SAS Tech Support "Find Your Answer Here!"
    Search a wide variety of SAS tech support databases (usage notes, tips, sample libraries, etc.)
  • SAS Technical Notes, indexed by number and category, and searchable
  • SAS Notes Through Email
    Describes how to search SAS Notes by sending an email message to the search server.
  • SAS Sample Library
  • SAS Institute FTP Site  A large collection of additional SAS programs, macros, technical reports, etc.
  • SAS Institute Web Tools SI's site devoted to tools and techniques for connecting SAS and the WWW, with documentation, demos, download areas.
  • JMP Software: Exploratory Data Analysis
  • SAS/Stat R and D pages New stuff under development in SAS/STAT, with links to techichnical reports, papers, and of course, some hype.
  • Statistical Macros from SAS Institute
  • SUGI 22--26 (1997--2001) Proceedings (in PDF form)
• SAS-L
  • 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).
  • The SAS-L Mailing List Archive
  • Listserv SAS-L search from University of Georgia
• 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.
  • Getting started with SAS for Windows
  • CSCAR Online SAS Documentation
    Using SAS on UNIX . How to run SAS non-interactively, interactively, or with X-windows
  • Generic Printer Setup for SAS/GRAPH
  • Various guides for SAS
  • SAS Information Guides
    A large collection
  • SAS Statistical Software Help documents from USC: SAS on unix, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/CONNECT
  • SAS TO SPSS CONVERSION
  • Excel 2 SAS and Back Webpage Notes on converting data between SAS and Excel (both ways) collected by Don Cram.
  • Subsetting and Resampling in SAS (Stat-56)
    How to do random selection, bootstrapping, and jackknife selection in SAS
  • Using PROC MIXED to fit multilevel models A detailed tutorial paper by Judith Singer (PDF format)
• SAS/GRAPH
  • Introduction to SAS/GRAPH Extended notes from my old Short Course on SAS/GRAPH, with links to SAS/GRAPH syntax summaries and examples.
  • SAS for Statistical Graphics, 1st Edition A great book!
  • SAS/Graph Guide
• SAS Frequently-Asked Questions. Various FAQ lists are floating around. None are very comprehensive.
  • Frequently Asked Questionsk
    From SAS Institute, searchable
  • SAS Frequently-Asked Questions from USC.
  • SAS FAQ from Cornell.
  • PW Consulting BV: SAS Tips
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
    A large collection of FAQs on SAS, SPSS, LISREL, etc. from U Texas
  • SAS for the Masses
    SAS Tips, FAQs, links, from FRS Associates
  • Using Sas at UMBC
    A collection of introductory SAS tutorials, with examples by Jack Suess
  • Technical Tips for SAS Users
• SAS on the WWW
  • SAS on the WWW WebPower, Sieve Diagrams, Running SAS on the Web
  • IPPBR Data about Kansas . cgi-sas examples and scripts
  • A Java Glyph graph - Fisher Iris data . A Java applet displays 4 dimensional data (Fisher's Iris data) as a glyph plot.
• SAS software/macro collections
  • 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/). and is accessible via the Internet. It accepts contributions and downloads contributions of SAS applications or programs via anonymous FTP or through an e-mail interface.
  • Arnold Schick's macro collection A set of SAS macros for a variety of statistical and graphics operations on data sets. (Now with those annoying Tripod pop-ups)
  • Neural networks with SAS, Homogeneity of variance
  • Roland's SAS Macros
    A large collection of SAS macros
  • UnifyPow Ralph O'Brien's SAS macros for power analysis of nearly any statistic
  • John Hendrickx Macros for building GENMOD design matrix, multinominal conditional logistic regression
  • SAS Macros for Data Warehousing System of SAS autocall macros for Data Warehousing by Roger DeAngelis.
  • Index of /pub/views
    Views, a UK SAS user group, maintains an ftp site and newsletters
  • Index of /ftp/pub/sas/makros Macro collection from the University of Heidelberg
  • Oliver Schabenberger's Page or, confusingly, Oliver Schabenberger's Page Courses, SAS code, consulting, good collection of links to other statistical resources
    • Creating Experimental Designs Examples of the use of PROC PLAN for generating a wide variety of experimental designs.
    • SAS Code for Some Important Designs GLM and MIXED code for a variety of experimental designs
    • SAS Design Code Generator
      A Web-Based SAS Code Developer for Experimental Designs in JavaScript
• SAS Consulting
  • SAS ConSig
    Lists SAS consultants registry, SAS user group websites, SAS codiing tips, etc.
  • E.S. RANDO Associates - Information Systems Consulting Services
    Consulting, contracting, placement services

SPSS and SYSTAT

• The SPSS web site
• Macros SPSS macro library
• Index of /pub/spss/statistics/nichols/macros/
• Index of /pub/spss/statistics/nichols/articles/
• SPSS SPSS Guide and FAQs from U. Texas
• SPSS for Windows
  • SPSS for Windows An illustrated guide for new users, from NYU
  • SPSS Tutorial
    Very nice introductory tutorial with many screen shots
  • WLM - Internet Guide to SPSS
    A brief "online help" for SPSS for Windows via WWW, by Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer.
  • Using SPSS 8.0 to Analyze Statistical Data
  • Raynald's SPSS Tools A nice collection of tools, archives, tips, FAQ, tutorials, macros, etc. on SPSS, by Raynald Levesque.
  • AMOS 3.6 for Windows A program for Structural Equation models and Confirmatory Factor Analysis with a lovely graphical user interface -- draw a path diagram to specify your model!
• SPSS for Unix
  • Running SPSS under UNIX How to run SPSS in noninteractive, or interactive mode, from UT Austin.
  • New features in SPSS 6.1 for UNIX
• SYSTAT
  Now independently owned by Systat Software Inc., SYSTAT has excellent capabilities for statistical graphics.
  • SYSTAT v 10.2 Product Info
  • Application Gallery SYSTAT 10.2

LispStat

• Lisp-Stat Information Luke Tierney's Lisp-Stat site. Contains tech reports, documentaion, release notes for latest version of xls.
• UCLA xlisp-stat code archive
• Frederic Udina's WWW server
• Regression Graphics and ARC
  Software for Applied Regression Including Computing and Graphics and updates to ARC (formerly: Rcode)
• ViSta - The Visual Statistics System Forrest Young's ViSta system, based on xlispstat.
• Instructional Regression Modules Using XLISP-STAT Paper by Anderson &Dayton in JSE, V3N1; presents XLISP-STAT programs and explanations for three kinds of educational modules relevant to an applied regression course: new mouse modes, regression surface displays, and dynamic simulations for the sampling distribution of an estimated regression coefficient.
• Statistical Computing in Xlisp-Stat
• Computational Statistics. Forrest Young's course on Lisp-Stat and Vista
• Bob Stine's Page. Bob Stine's page at Wharton contains some lispstat extensions and links to courses on statistical computing ( Statistics 540: Statistical Computing ), and his ICPSR Lectures on Bootstrap Resampling (some documents in PDF format)
• Mail Index
  The stat-lisp-news mailing list , archived by Luke Tierney
• Mail Thread Index
• B Halpin's XLS code
  Code for more convenient fitting of loglinear models
• Rweb
  Rweb is a Web based interface to R (a statistical analysis package) that takes the submitted code, runs R on the code (in batch mode), and returns the output (printed and graphical).
• R.W. Oldford, University of Waterloo
  Info on Quail: A Common Lisp system for quantitative analysis.

S Plus and R

• R Project
  R is a language and run-time environment for carrying out interactive statistical data analysis. It is not entirely dissimilar to the S language developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories. S users will find the environment familiar and a good deal of S software are will run without change under R.
• John Fox's Home Page John's course, Sociology 740 is a second course in social statistics, with a focus on regression analysis, linear models, and related statistical methods, such as logistic regression using R with some of John's extensions.
• Insightful Corp. -- official site for S Plus information
• S-PLUS Links
  A loosely categorized collection of links relating to S-PLUS
• Splus Help
  Getting set up, tutorials, lists of Splus libraries, from Montana State (Jim Robison-Cox)
• Splus software archive (Statlib) StatLib S and Splus archives
• There seems to be no S-Plus newsgroups, but there is an email list for S-Plus users that you can subscribe to. Subscription requests to s-news-request@wubios.wustl.edu . Thereafter post to: s-news@wubios.wustl.edu
• S-news Archive (Statlib) S-news archive, in digest form from the time of its creation. Now has a search capability .
• Selections from S-news by thread Maintained by Georges Monette with hypermail.
• Technical Reports and Software by Trevor Hastie ftp links to Hastie's S programs
• Bill Cleveland's Web Pages
• Trellis Graphics in S and S Plus . Contains links to postscript documents describing Trellis. Also, Cleveland's Visualizing Data book, and a variety of S-related software.
• Biomathematics Archive A collection of statistical software (S+, XlispStat)
• Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS, 2nd ed
  Links to updates, software libraries, exercises
• Index of /pub/S
  Material for Brian Ripley's Introductory Guide to S-Plus
• The BUGS Project - Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling
• BUGS - Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling
• ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics
  ESS, an EMACS programming interface and process interface for statistical programming and data analysis (support for S, Xlispstat, SAS and others)
• Bootstrap Function Library
  A library of functions and data written by Angelo Canty to accompany the Cambridge University Press book Bootstrap Methods and Their Application by Anthony Davison and David Hinkley
• S/Java Connection
  A programming environment that links the S and Java languages
• Programming with Data
  A guide and reference to the version of S underlying S-Plus Versions 5.0 and later
• Statistical Computing Tools and Documents
  A collection of excellent documents, tools, and datasets for S-Plus and R, from Frank Harrell.
• Mosaic Web Page Mosaic displays in S-Plus, by Jay Emerson.
• An Introduction to S-PLUS
  R. D. Brownrigg, P. J. Smith, G. A. Vignaux Victoria University of Wellington "It is intended to be a manual for self-instruction, based on tutorial sessions..."

Minitab

• Minitab
• Technical Paper Index
• Getting Started with Minitab for Windows
• The Minitab Multivariate Macro Library
  This library contains Minitab macros to perform various multivariate analyses (biplot, clustering, correspondence analysis, PCA, etc.). Most have sample data sets for illustration.

Mathematica

• Wolfram Research, Inc.
  • MathSource Home Page MathSource is an extensive collection of Mathematica code and documents.
  • Technical FAQs
  • Matematica Graphics Gallery
• MathGroup
  Email group for Mathematica users. See also: the newsgroup, news:comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
• Interactive Learning in Calculus and Differential Equations with Applications A collection of Mathematica notebooks from Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• mathStatica: The web site for Mathematical Statistics with Mathematica. mathStatica was designed to solve the algebraic / symbolic problems that are of primary interest in mathematical statistics. It does so by building upon the symbolic computational power of Mathematica to create a sophisticated toolset specially designed for doing mathematical statistics.

Data Visualization & Statistical Graphics

• General
  • The SCS Gallery of Data Visualization
    Some examples of the Best and Worst in statistical graphics.
    See also: Milestones in the History of Data Visualization ....
  • 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 manyl 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
  • comp.graphics.algorithms Frequently Asked Questions
  • ACM SIGGRAPH
  • CSC graphics links
  • IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis '96)
  • Envisioning Data and Information (outline of a workshop by Edward Tufte)
  • Bibliographies on Computer Graphics and Vision
    Search all the Computer Graphics and Vision bibliographies, with results returned in html or bibtex format.
  • Eurographics Association
    Eurographics (EG) is the European Association for Computer Graphics. Its members include researchers, developers, educators and those who work in the computer graphics industry, both as users and providers of computer graphics hardware, software, and applications.
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press
    Has question and answer forum on evidence visualization, news of Edward Tufte's books and one-day courses
• Graph and Network Drawing
  • Graph Drawing Tools
    A collection of references to graph drawing tools.
  • Annotated Bibliography on Graph Drawing
  • Graph Visualization System daVinci
  • Graphviz tools for viewing and interacting with graph diagrams by Stephen North and colleagues at A.T.&T.
• Visualization Software
  • IBM Almaden Visualization Lab
  • IBM Visualization Data Explorer (DX)
  • Geomview
  • The Geometer's Sketchpad A geometry drawing package (Windows, MAC) which can be set up as a helper app for WWW courses.
  • DAVID Data VIsualization and Diagnostics DAVID facilitates extraction, tracking, quantification and mathematization of evolving and interacting amorphous objects, from e.g time-dependent multidimensional simulations
  • S*i*ftware: Tools for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery List public-domain,shareware , research prototype, and commercial systems for data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. Contains extensive descriptions and comments (but not all links are up-to-date)
  • Crossgraphs Multidimensional Graphical Reporting and Data Visualization
  • Triangle: A Two-Dimensional Quality Mesh Generator
  • XGOBI, a system for multivariate data visualization
    XGobi is an X-windows data visualization system for viewing high-dimensional data. The page also describes XGvis, an X-based program for interactive multdimensional scaling
• Graphical Perception
  • Interactive Illustrations of Color Perception . A tutorial on color perception, with interactive illustrations. Requires Java for maximum impact.
  • 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]
  • PG-Entry Page An extensive hypertext tutorial on visualization and graphical perception
  • Cynthia Brewer
    A lot of information on color perception, and some lovely examples of the use of color in maps, from Cynthia Brewer's home page.
• Visualization Sites
  • SARA Visualization Center
  • UCSC Computer Graphics . Links to many computer graphics and visualization groups.
  • 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.
  • 3D animations on the Web
    [Keywords: 3D animation movie design art gif web java javascript]
    
  • Dynamic Statistical Data Exploration in the C2
  • Augsburg Department of Computer Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis
    Java and Mac visualization software

Psychology & Psychometrics

• 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.
• AERA Educational Statisticians SIG
• Statistical Resources on the Internet
  Links to statistical resources of particular interest to social scientists, the classification society, MacPsych discussion list.
• Psychometrics Unit, University of Bergen, NORWAY
• Vision Science: The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
  Contains a list of software and demonstrations
  • Software for Psychophysics
    An overview and review of software available for visual psychophysics
  • Psychophysica
    Psychophysica is a collection of Mathematica Notebooks containing functions for collecting and analyzing data in psychophysical experiments. The page has an animated movie showing experimental results.
• iec ProGAMMA Home Page ProGAMMA develops and distributes computer applications in the social and behavioral sciences
• STEPS Psychology Abstracts A set of 6 psychology experiments is described, yielding data which are used in the Statistical Education through Provlem Solving program.
• Center for Computational Psychology at the University of Chicago.
• PsychLink . Computer software information service for Psychologists.
• Stoutlab Homepage
  Papers on psychometrics and educational measurement by William Stout and his students related to bias, dimensionality and cognitive diagnosis.
• IDANET Psychometrics programs Statistical and Psychometric Software - featuring classical item analysis, factor analysis, through multidimensional scaling and correspondence analysis
• ROC software request form Software for ROC analysis
• ASC Software Information Page
  Lists and sells Test development, item response theory, factor analysis, scale construction and SEM software
• AssiStat
  AssiStat is a Windows-based software package that does automated calculation of 80 formulas useful in educational and psychological research, practice, and in measurement and statistics courses. It was designed to be used as a complement to typical statis tical data analysis packages rather than as a primary data analysis tool.
• Institute for Objective Measurement
  A web site devoted to psychological measurement using the Rasch model and related methods.
• ALSCAL Multidimensional Scaling Program
• Structural equation models, Factor analysis
  • PA 765: Structural Equation Modeling
    A very complete tutorial on SEM concepts, software, terminology, goodness-of-fit statistics, etc.
  • Amos Home Page
    Info about Amos - Analysis of Moment Structures. Provides other links related to factor analysis and structural equations. There is a free student version (limited to 8 observed variables or less).
  • Structural Equation Modeling
    A page of links to resources for structural equation modeling (latent variable modeling, confirmatory factor analysis, and path analysis).
  • Using PRELIS2 and LISREL8
    A detailed illustrated introductory guide to LISREL and PRELIS.
  • Exploratory Factor Analysis: A book manuscript by Ledyard
    A book on exploratory factor analysis, in pdf and ps format.
  • Computer Software for Power Analysis in Covariance Structure Modeling
  • Mx homepage
    Mx is a matrix algebra interpreter and numerical optimizer for structural equation modeling and other types of statistical modeling of data. Combines features of LISREL and EQS, and is available for Un*x and Windows, among other platforms. Now comes with a nice GUI for Windows and enhancements for multiple-group models, etc.

Online courses

• General
  • Bibliography on the Teaching of Probability and Statistics An extensive collection of references on teaching from 1987-1994 covering journals, conferences and books, by Hardeo Sahai
  • The TWIstat project A project at Delft University of Technology. The goal of TWIstat is to develop courseware (NeXT and Windows) for assisting statistics education at the University.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • Electronic Encyclopedia of Exercises and Examples EESEE currently includes over 75 "real-world" examples of the uses and abuses of statistics and statistical inference, drawn from published and printed media encompassing a wide range of subject-matter areas. The current version is a Mac, hypercard stack.
  • ProjectIris
    Instructional resources for introductory statistics in science and engineering.
  • Statistics Glossary - Main Contents Part of the STEPS project at Lancaster. Provides a topic-based glossary of statistical terms, classified by topics such as 'Sampling', Correlation and Regression', etc.
  • 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.
  • The UCLA Electronic Statistics Textbook
  • PROPHET StatGuide: Home Page
    A comprehensive online glossary of statistical concepts and methods, with keyword search facilities and extensive references.
  • The Internet Glossary of Statistical Terms
  • Studying statistics (advice) This page is aimed at undergraduates studying statistics for the first time. It is intended to be helpful to those taking stats because they have to, as well as those taking the subject because they want to
  • Calculus graphics -- Douglas N. Arnold
    A Mathematica- based collection of lovely graphical demonstrations for first-year calculus.
  • Gary McClelland: Courses . Undergraduate and graduate statistics courses by Gary McClelland, with a Mathematica &SAS flavor. Contains some nice Mathematica demonstration notebooks.
  • STATISTICS PAGE A multimedia statistics page with animated movies.
  • K-12 Statistics Education A collection of projects and problems to teach statistical concepts.
  • StatVillage Intro
    A web-accessible hypothetical city based on real data for use in an introductory survey sampling course.
  • DAU STAT Refresher module
    Tutorial modules on probability and statistics
  • Statistics Homepage: an Electronic Statistics Textbook The Electronic Textbook begins with an overview of the relevant elementary concepts and continues with a more in depth exploration of specific areas of statistics (ANCOVA/MANCOVA, discriminant analysis, nonparametric statistics, distribution fitting, factor analysis, multidimensional scaling, reliability/item analysis, cluster analysis, log-linear analysis, nonlinear estimation, canonical analysis, survival analysi s, time series analysis, structural equation modeling, etc). A glossary of statistical terms and a list of references for further study are included.
  • Sociology 744: Computer Applications in Qualitative Data Analysis
  • Generalized Linear Models Page
    Software, bibliographies, conferences, books, archives, and courses related to GLMs, maintained by Gordon Smyth at Queensland
  • Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
    HyperStat Online (online textbook), simulations/demonstrations, case studies, and a Java Analysis Lab. By David Lane. Very nice, David!
  • Bill Trochim's Center for Social Research Methods
    Material for a Research Methods course in social science--- an on-line Research Methods text, Tutorials, and a selecting statistics hierarchy-- how to pick the statistical right method for a given problem.
  • WISE: Web Interface for Statistics Education
    This is a site developed at the Claremont Graduate University with the intention of creating interactive tutorials to teach statistical concepts at the undergraduate level.
• Elementary Statistics
  • STAT101: Introductory Statistics An online introductory stats textbook, with nice examples, tables, and graphs.
  • Psychology 230: Elementary Statistics Intro statistics course with online Excel spreadsheets demonstrating statistical concepts.
  • Introduction to Quantitative Methods . Gene Glass' course at Arizona State Univ
  • Elements of Educational Statistics
  • Math 102 . Introductory Statistics course at Colgate, with online exercises (excel)
  • Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications by David Stockburger
    An online text for teaching introductory statistics to psychology students. It emphasises the understanding of statistical concepts and illustrates the use of SPSS/WIN to do statistical calculations. Numerous interactive exercises are contained in the text. Most use ActiveX and VBScript technology, so Internet Explorer 3.0 or later is necessary. In addition, programs to generate individualized homework assignments and tests are available. The latest work may be found at: Psychological Statistics at SMSU
  • Teach Modules (Teaching statistics for undergraduate student) : Lesson Outlines Lisp-stat based instructional modules for introductory statistics, from Iowa State.
  • Interactive Statistics Pages Some nice Java applets: guessing correlations, scatterplots, Data Applet, etc.
  • Newcastle University Statistics Hyper-Library An online introductory stats textbook, with some interesting online Java applets
  • Elementary Probability and Statistics Interactive
  • Statistics 1001 Study Guide: Table of Contents
    Distance education course at Univ Minnesota
  • Descriptive Statistics Introduction
    Tutorial pages on descriptive statistics (central tendency, variability)
  • Psychology Statistics Class Page
    Several courses with lecture notes, problems/answers, and animated demonstrations
  • MATH 447/547 Exploratory Data Analysis
    Covers the topics in Tukey's EDA book, with lots of datasets.
  • The Statistical Sleuth Home Page
    A textbook, with online data sets, exams
  • Introduction to Exploring Data Support materials on EDA for interoductory statistics. Nice collection
  • Entity-Property-Relationship Approach to Introductory Statistics
    Discusses a new approach to the introductory statistics course based on the concepts of entities, properties of entities, and relationships between properties of entities.
  • Intro Stat: EPR Approach
  • Teaching materials for statistical literacy assignments
    Nice collection of teaching materials: The media article, original research report, student's summary, questions, answers, opinions
  • Psychology 122
    An introductory statistics course by Jim Arbuckle (of AMOS fame) with a huge number of *real* (SPSS format) data sets, documentation, and course handouts.
  • Visual Statistics with Multimedia
    A collection of courses from ASU.
• Intermediate Statistics / ANOVA / Regression
  • Psychology 3030: Intermediate Statistics My upper-level undergraduate course in Regression/ANOVA/Experimental Design with lots of SAS examples.
  • MAT 7405 - Statistical Methods II - Villanova University . A course in regression/ANOVA by Tom Short with many SAS datasets, exercises.
  • Univ Michigan Statistics Courses Noteworthy: Teaching materials . Course notes by J Faraway on Regression and Anova in S+, Generalized Linear Models
  • Stat 421 Autumn 1996 Applied Statistics and Experimental Design, with extensive online lecture notes, S-Plus material
  • Stat 423 - Winter 1997
    A course in regression and analysis of variance.
  • A web tutorial on Mixed Models by R. J. Baker at the University of Saskatchewan. [Broken link]
  • Statistics 5302 Student Information Applied regression analysis
  • Statistics 5161 Student Information
  • Statistical Data Analysis
    A second course for undergraduate students. The site contains a fine collection of resources
  • Psychology 406 An honors psychology course (inferential statistics, ANOVA, regression)
  • MA489R, Regression
  • Regression Refresher
  • Logistic Regression and Loglinear Modeling for the Social Sciences This course provides intensive training in logistic regression for binary independent variables, and in log-linear modeling of multidimensional contingency tables. With Splus examples.
  • Course: Math3034
    Modern Regression Analysis (with SPlus examples), by Claudia Czado
  • STAT 5537: Statistical Modeling and Methods
    A course with Splus and R, including Splus scripts for Agresti's Catagorical Data Analysis by Laura Thompson
  • Online courses by David Krus, Arizona State University: Multiple Regression/Correlation methods, and Analysis of Variance. Also:
    • Online textbook: Visual Statistics
    • SPSS workbook: Conduct Statistical Analyses with SPSS
• Multivariate Methods
  • Psychology 6140: Multivariate Data Analysis
  • UCLA Course listing Courses in Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Computation with Xlisp-Stat, Advanced Regression Analysis, many others, both graduate and undergraduate.
  • Statistics 407 - Methods of Multivariate Analysis
    A course in multivariate data analysis with lots of graphics (Splus, Xgobi) by Dianne Cook at Iowa State
  • EDPSY 507 Syllabus
    This course, with extensive online notes, teaches multiple regression analysis, multiple and canonical correlation, multiple discriminant analysis, classification procedures, factor analysis
  • Analysis of Multivariate Data Multivariate methods, categorical data analysis, neural networks; with SAS examples [broken link]
• Graphical Methods
  • Stat 438: 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.
  • Stat 438
    Course by J Robison-Cox, using Cleveland's Visualizing Data, and extensive Splus notes, code
  • CS450/550: Introduction to Computer Graphics Online computer graphics course using IBM's DX
  • Statistical Graphics in Screen Design
  • Stat 841: Computational Exploration of Data Courses at U Waterloo by Hugh Chipman and Waybne Oldford.
• Linear/Matrix Algebra
  • Linear Algebra WebNotes A complete undergraduate Linear Algebra course including the text of lectures , homework assignments and tests with solutions, a discussion page , Maple examples, etc.
  • 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)
  • Matrix Reference Manual
    by Mike Brooks, Imperial College

Online WWW Statistics

• Statistics Online Computational Resources
  A collection of Java applets for teaching introductory statistica courses, by Ino Dinov, UCLA.
• Statistics Calculators
  A large number of online statistics calculators for correlation, regression, and various probability distributions (mostly using PHP) from UCLA
  • Regression and GLM Calculator
  • Power Calculator
• Rweb is a Web based interface to R (a statistical analysis package) that takes the submitted code, runs R on the code (in batch mode), and returns the output (printed and graphical). Written in Perl by Jeff Banfield.
• 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 (full factorial) ANOVA design.
• Designing Clinical Trials Some sample size determination forms
• Statistics to use A set of forms-based on-line statistics calculators; Enter your data, find: Mean, Standard Deviation, etc Fisher Exact Test ANOVA: ANalysis Of VAriance between groups chi- square distribution test contingency tables Student's t tests Ordinary Least Squares & beyond [ Keywords: forms-based on-line statistics calculator WWW]
• Regression Applet A java applet designed to teach students the effect of leverage points on a regression line.
• Interesting JAVA Applets
  A large collection of Java applets on statistical topics
• The GPL
  Graphics Production Library for constructing Java applets which allow interaction with high-quality statistical graphics.
• Welcome to WebStat A basic statistical package in Java from Webster West at University of South Carolina. Reads user's local data in a simple file format
• Data Applet
  Java applet for data analysis, with boxplots, scatterplots, descriptive statistics and a large library of datasets
• Linear Equations
  Enter coefficients for a 3 x; 3 system of equations and have the system solved.
• Linear transformations
  Enter coefficients for a 2 x 2 matrix, and see the effect it has as a linear transformation
• Java at Xanadu
  Java applets for calculus, Bownian motion, gambler's ruin
• JavaStat
  This page contains links to interactive web pages that perform statistical calculations
• Mathematics Archives - JAVA and Other Interactive WWW Pages
• Statlets - Java Applets for Statistical Analysis A large collection, free for academic use, commercial otherwise.
• Data grinders - Java applets for the analysis of behavior
• VassarStats: Web Site for Statistical Computation
  On-line statistical computation via embedded javascript programming (Categorical data, proportions, correlation, regression, ANOVA, t-tests, etc.)
• Plot discrete probability distributions
  From Phil Pollett's Teaching Pages. A Java applet which plots a bar graph of the probability function p for several of the standard discrete distributions (binomial, Poisson, negative binomial, geometric, etc.) The various parameters are controlled using scrollbars.
• Davis
  Davis is a stand alone pure JAVA-based application and has been implemented to make the most of visualization techniques. The key feature of DAVIS is the real-time interaction among the various statistical and graphical tools and tables.

Data

• Large, general data set collections
  • 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 A collection of interesting small datasets, mostly from JSE articles
  • Time Series Data Library A collection of about 800 time series, drawn from many different fields, maintained by Rob Hyndman.
• Data sets from texts and books
  • BMDP manual datasets . 45 files containing all the datasets used in the BMDP manual, from University of Cologne.
  • Datasets from Statistical Principles in Experimental Design by B. J. Winer, D. R. Brown and K. M. Michels
  • Datasets from John A. Hartigan: Clustering Algorithms
  • Datasets from Robust Regression and Outlier Detection by Peter J. Rousseeuw and Annick M. Leroy
  • Milliken &Johnson (Analysis of Messy Data) datasets
  • Andrews - Herzberg DATA All the files from the DATA book, individually and as one .tar.Z file .
  • Datasets from Sen/Srivastava: Regression Analysis
  • A Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis
  • Data sets from Box, Hunter &Hunter Statistics for Experimenters, in lispstat and minitab format
  • Applied Regression Analysis: A Research Tool
    Data sets from Applied Regression Analysis: A Research Tool by John O. Rawlings, Sastry G. Pantula, and David A. Dickey Springer-Verlag, 1998
  • Data from Bayesian Data Analysis
    by Gelman, Carlin, Stern, and Rubin
  • Data and R code from Bootstrap Methods and their Application
    by A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley
  • Data sets from Statistical Methods for Psychology (5th ed).
    by David C. Howell, Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury Press
• Social science data
  • Social Indicators of Development World Bank datasets. Requires a special client app (Win/X available) to access the datasets.
  • 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.
  • ICPSR Homepage The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data
  • • National Archive of Criminal Justice
    • NACDA
      The National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging acquires and preserves data relevant to gerontological research.
  • Times Poll: Stat Sheets Index
    The L.A Times Stats Sheets are detailed statistical reports of polls on many topics going back over 6 years. Each one contains a series of crosstabulations. Good source for student projects dealing with social policy, opinion research, etc.
• 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.
• Case Studies in Data Analysis
• 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.
• Information for Investment and Business Information Services: 1. financial and economic database of 900 indexes, indicators, and price performance for 21 years by month. 2. A graphical Database 3. A white paper tutorial on technical investing [Keywords: financial database stocks bonds graphs charts business investment]
• Undergraduate data analysis contest Real-world datasets comparing men and womens incomes and career opportunities.
• Time Series Data Library
  This is a collection of about 500 time series, maintained by Rob Hyndman, organized by subject
• Journal of Statistics Education Data Archive
  Lists data sets from the JSE data sets and stories sections
• Electronic Dataset Service
  Provides access to a variety of datasets suitable for teaching statistics, classified according to the type of analysis.. Each dataset has documentation, pedagogical notes, etc. Many are pointers to statlib or other collections.
• MATH 447/547 DATASET LIST
  Lots of datasets for an EDA course (sports, population statistics, colleges and universities)
• Exploratory Data Analysis Data Sets from Jim Filliben

Categorical Data Analysis

• Courses and course material
  • Paul Allison's Home Page . Describes short courses in Categorical Data Analysis and Event History/Survival Analysis using SAS.
  • Categorical Data Analysis ICPSR short course, with a comprehensive reading list
  • Analysis Of Categorical Dependent Variables With SAS And SPSS. Covers models for binary outcomes (logistic, probit regression), models for multiple outcomes (ordered, unordered), with detailed examples in SAS and SPSS.
  • Generalized Linear Models: An Introduction
    Extensive examples with SAS and CDAS by Robert Hanneman, UC, Riverside
  • Health Studies 326/Statistics 226 Home Page
    Ron Thistead's course at Chicage; many data sets (in Stata format)
  • Loglinear Analysis
    Brendan Halpin's CDA course at Essex.
  • Sociology 619, Winter 1999
    Course by Yu Xie at Univ Michigan, covering loglinear models for count data, logit/probit models for discrete dependent variables, and hazards models for studying transitions with longitudinal data, with extensive sets of examples (SAS, GLIM, STATA, etc.)
  • Accessing the GSS
    A Layperson's Tools for Analyzing Data from the General Social Surveys (GSS)
  • Latent Class Analysis (John Uebersax)Latent Class Analysis
    Bibliographies, software (with reviews), links and papers dealing with Latent Class Analysis.
  • Categorical Data Analysis
    A course by Brett Presnell, with extensive material on computing with SAS and R.
• Books, conferences
  • Statistical Methods for Categorical Data
    Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Powers &Xie Academic Press Lots of SAS/GLIM/Stata examples
  • Visualization of Categorical Data Conference Program and abstracts for the conference held in Cologne, Germany, May, 1995.
  • Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis This document contains tables from the Appendix of An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis by Alan Agresti. The tables show SAS code for the analyses conducted in that text, and contain the major data sets from that text.
    See also:Agresti SAS Examples Examples from Agresti's An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis, SAS statements, plus output.
• Software
  • Categorical Data Analysis System (CDAS): A collection of programs (MSDOS and OS/2) for a wide variety of analyses, including loglinear models, latent class analysis, etc at Scott Eliason's Home Page. An online version of the User's Guide is at: . CDAS User's Guide Index
  • SUDAAN
  • SDIS-GSEQ Home Page. Software for Sequential Analysis Roger Bakeman's page describing his SDIS-GSEQ software for the analysis of sequential, observational data.
  • GLIM The UK-developed system for analysis of generalized linear models, from NAG
    • GLIM 4 home page
    • Also from NAG: Visualisation and Graphics Software .
    • NAG Statistical Add-ins for Excel
      NAG Statistical Add-ins for Excel allow you to add sophisticated functions using tools you know how to use.
    • NAG Data Mining Components
      NAG Data Mining Components is a new product developed for those who are creating applications which require data mining functionality
    • J. P. Hinde's GLIM Page Some useful links to macros and documentation for GLIM users
  • Software for Graphical Models, Belief Networks, etc. Links to CoCo, MIM, Digram, BIFROST, etc
  • CoCo Information CoCo is designed for fitting large, possibly incomplete contingency tables. It offers a wide variety of model-building techniques, particularly wrt Graphical Models.
  • LOGLIN: A program for generalised loglinear analysis
    LOGLIN performs generalised log-linear modelling of categorical data.. In addition to standard models, it can fit models for missing data and/or unobserved data.using the EM algorithm
  • l_EM
    DOS and Windows95 program by Jeroen Vermunt for categorical data. Handles an extremely large variety of loglinear, latent class, and event history models.
  • DIGRAM: Discrete Graphical Models
    DIGRAM, a PC based program, written by Svend Kreiner of the Department of Sociology, analyzes recursive graphical models for discrete data.
  • StatLib---Software for Graphical Modelling MIM for Windows and DOS, a program for graphical modelling described in Edwards (1995), Introduction to Graphical Modelling, Springer-Verlag
  • MIM - Graphical modelling software MIM is a PC-program for graphical modelling, based on a broad family of statistical models for discrete and continuous variables. The following model families are included as special cases: hierarchical loglinear models, graphical Gaussian models, graphic al association models, standard MANOVA models and various other models used in multivariate analysis.
  • LOGIMO - Loglinear and Loglinear IRT Model Analysis
    LOGIMO is a commercial program for the estimation and testing of ordinary loglinear models and loglinear IRT models.
  • Statistical Innovations
    Latent Gold - software for Latent Class and Mixture analysis
  • Llama software for log-multiplicative models
    Llama is a small package which works in the Xlisp-Stat statistical computing environment. Llama exists to specify and fit log-linear and log-multiplicative models to data in the form of a multi-way contingency table (that is, a cross-classification or cro ss-tabulation by two or more categorical variables).
• Ulysses Guide . A cross-tabulation engine on the www that works via telnet, from CIESIN.

Other statistical / graphics software

• General & Packages
  • P-STAT A programmable statistical system, with particular strength in the management and analysis of survey/market research data and large data sets.
  • Stata A programmable environment for manipulating and exploring data using statistical and graphical methods. For Windows, Mac, Unix
  • DataDesk for the Mac
    See also:ActivStats, a complete multimedia presentation of the material commonly found in an Introductory Statistics course.
  • StatSoft Inc
    Statistica for Windows/Mac - a comprehensive, integrated statistical data analysis, graphics, and data base management system. See also theirElectronic Statistical Textbook.
  • Prophet: A statistical package for Life Science Research
    A comprehensive data analysis and visualization package for life science research including software tools for data management and visualization, and statistical analysis - from simple descriptive statistics to multi-factor ANOVA, logistic regression, and non-linear modeling.
  • NCSS Statistical Software
    A comprehensive and accurate, easy to learn, statistical system for Windows users. They also list a Windows program for power analysis and sample size determination for a wide range of statistical tests.
  • XploRe 3.2 / 4.0
    Xplore is an interactive statistical computing environment.for exploratory statistical analysis is given by a variety of computational tools. XploRe is a matrix oriented statistical language with a comprehensive set of basic statistical operations, provid es highly interactive graphics, is a programing environment for usder written macros and offers hard wired smoothing procedures for effective high dimensional data analysis
• Graphics
  • Gnuplot
  • Stanford Graphics Home Page
  • STATGRAPHICS Plus An extensible, interactive system for statistical graphics (Windows).
  • Manet
    Manet - an interactive graphical analysis of statistical data for the MAC
  • GraphPad Software. Intuitive Software for Science
    "GraphPad Software creates intuitive programs that simplify scientific graphing, curve fitting and statistics." (Windows, Mac)
  • GLE Layout Engine GLE is a graphics language that produces PostScript, EPS, PDF, PNG, or JPG ouput from a simple script file.
  • VisualMining Charting Software
    Java software for charts and graphs.
• Power analysis and Meta analysis
  • Power and Precision
    "Power and Precision is a stand-alone statistical software package that is used for the calculation of a sample size for a planned study. The program features an unusually clear interface, and many tools to assist the user in developing an understanding of power analysis. It incorporates the ability to create tables, graphs, and reports with a single click." [Ed. note: highly recommended]
  • Statistical power analysis software [Broken link] A comprehensive list of software for power analyses, with extensive notes, links, pointers to reviews. [see Review of statistical power analysis, Thomas & Krebs, 1997 for a MS-Word version]
  • MIX: Meta-analysis with Interactive eXplanations. It is comprehensive analytical software with educational interactive tutoring. It is especially meant for students and teachers, although it provides professional numerical and graphical output and, besides analyzing the built-in data sets, one can also enter and analyze one's own data.
  • G*Power A general power analysis program (t-tests, F-tests, chi-square) for MAC or MS DOS
  • StudySize
    StudySize is a program for statistical power and sample size calculation. It includes the most common tests, point estimates and confidence intervals. Any parameter may be calculated (not only power or sample size) and can be presented as a single value or in a table or graph grouped by the values of two other parameters.

Provalis Research
Simstat for Windows/DOS, item analysis software, multivariate analysis program, etc.

CLUSTAN A package for a wide variety of cluster analysis methods

Software for Belief Networks
This document describes software for manipulating graphical belief function models , and related modes such as Bayesian networks , influence diagrams , and probabilistic graphical models

Salford Systems
Tree-structured non-parametric data analysis software for UNIX and Windows computer platforms.

Amara's Wavelet Page Documents, software and links about wavelets

G*Power A general power analysis program (t-tests, F-tests, chi-square) for MAC or MS DOS

XLSTAT an Excel Add-in for statistics and data analysis

Stat-Ease, Inc.
Stat-Ease provides computer software, workshops in design of experiments and Statistical Process Control, and consulting in DOE and statistics

Software for multiple imputation
Simulation methods to generate m>1 replacements for each missing datum. Software in S-Plus

EcStatic statistical software for Windows, and Gus and Gertie's Graphin' Gadget
EcStatic is an easy-to-use, inexpensive statistical software package for Windows. Gus and Gertie's Graphin' Gadget offers the power of a graphing calculator with all the advantages of Windows. [Keywords: statistical analysis software, data analysis, statistics, graphing calculator]

PopTools - software for analysis of ecological models
PopTools is a Windows DLL, accessed via Microsoft Excel that facilitates analysis of matrix population models and simulation of stochastic processes

Vitalnet
A health data anaysis system.

AUTOBOX, a time-series forecasting package
Autobox 5.0 : ``Autobox is AFS's flagship product, providing cutting edge forecasting for the PC desktop for 16 years. Autobox provides a start to finish environment designed to make forecasting easy whether you have one series or one thousand.''
Also: FreeFore
a free forecasting program designed to aid forecasters both practitioners and academics.

APL and J

• Jim Weigang's APL Information Probably the best collection of APL links
• The Waterloo APL Archives
• APL-FAQ
• J Software Iverson Software's site for J
• Keith W. Smillie Keith Smillie's vita, with PS papers on statisical applications in J.
• J\APL - The Journal of APL - Links Page

Unix

• Quick Commands for Unix
• Scott Miller's Unix tutorial . An introduction to unix for novice users.
• UNIXhelp for users
  Offers a large collection of helpful information for UNIX users, extensively hyperlinked
• Introduction to Unix
  An interactive Unix introduction, using Hamlet. Includes Emacs and X-windows.
• The CSCAR Guide to 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.
  • Emacs reference materials
• AIX User's Manual . Extensive documentation on AIX, including editors, X, shells, compilers, email, SAS, SPSS, etc.
• Unix for WINdows
  AT&T's port of *nix apps and devel environment to Win NT/95/98

SCS home page Michael Friendly email: <friendly@yorku.ca>
This URL is: http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html