Joanne Wu’s Research Note Book- Statistics

Online Text Book and Tutor

· Electronic Statistics Textbook: This online text book is from StatSoft. The topics include basic statistics concepts, statistical analysis, data mining, text mining, time series/forecasting.

· Engineering Statistics Handbook: The link is from National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) website. The handbook is to help scientists and engineers incorporate statistical methods in their work as efficiently as possible.

· Statistical online seminars and classes from UCLA Academic Technology Services: The site includes more than 45 online seminars or classes that teach most common statistical packages (such as SAS, Stata, and SPSS) and statistical techniques.

· Visualizing Categorical Data

· Statistical Aspects of Data Mining course: The class is offered through Stanford with Videos on YouTube.

 

Statistical Graph

· Gallery of data visualization– The best and worst of statistical graphics

· Statistical graphs and SAS macros from Michael Friendly

 

Statistical Supports and Programs

· Statistical computing from UCLA Academic Technology Services: The web site provides resources on statistical computing packages, examples of data analysis, discussion. The page of textbook examples lists a lot of programs created from common statistical packages like SAS, Stata, and SPSS to show how to solve the examples from the text books.

· Effect size calculation: This is from a class lecture notes that organize and summarize the various measures of effect size. 

· Useful SAS programming tips and programs from Roland Rashleigh-Berry

· Research resource from Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (including concepts for research design, research protocol and glossary)

 

Discussion Forums

· Google group (comp.soft-sys.sas)

· SAS community discussion forums

 

Statistical Software

· SAS

· Stata

· SPSS

· R– an open source software

· Splus