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Links to Statistics Resources on the Web

This is a list of statistics resources on the World Wide Web (WWW). We hope you will find them useful. If you know of (or maintain) a statistics resource on the Web that you don't see here, please drop us a line to let us know about it, and we'll take a look at it.

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Principal Links

1. Pme Links

PME Home page
Home page of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.

PME25
PME 25, 12-17 July, 2001 will be held in Utrecht, The Nederlands.

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2. Forthcoming Conferences

ICOTS-6
The Sixth International Conference on Teaching Statistics will be held in Durban, South Africa, 7 - 12 July 2002.

ISI 53rd Session

SRTL-2
The Second International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, August 15-20, 2001.

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3. Journals

Journal of Statistical Education (JSE)
The journal is a refereed electronic journal on post secondary statistics education. The goal of the JSE is to provide interesting and useful information, ideas, software, and datasets to an international readership of statistics educators.

Teaching Statistics
The journal is full of ideas and resources for teaching data-handling and probability. It is geared for teachers of pupils aged 9 to 19, and includes articles on teaching statistics in mathematics, science etc.

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4. Teaching

ASA Education
American Statistical Association Center for Statistics Education.

CHANCE Database
This data base contains materials designed help teach a Chance course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course.

CTI Statistics
CTI Statistics, based in the Statistics Department of the University of Glasgow, is one of a number of subject-based centers working to encourage the use of learning technologies in UK higher education.

The Data And Story Library (DASL)
DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods.

Exploring Data
This Web site provides curriculum support materials for teachers of introductory statistics.

IASE - International Association for Statistical Education
The International Association for Statistical Education, IASE, is a section of the International Statistical Institute, ISI, which seeks to advance statistical education at all levels, from primary school through training of professionals.

International Study Group for Research on Learning Probability and Statistics

Robin Lock
Robin Lock directs students and instructors to Web sites that typify the various sorts of resources, which are currently available via the World Wide Web to help support statistics teaching and learning.

The RSS Centre for Statistical Education
Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education at the Nottingham Trent University.

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1. Archives and Resources

AP (Advanced Placement) Statistics
The Advanced Placement Program gives high school students a chance to try college-level work, and to gain valuable skills and study habits for college.

Bibliography for Computational Probability and Statistics

Bibliography for Optimization with Sensitivity Analysis

Central Statistical Office
Macro-Economic Time Series Data.

C I R D I S
Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca per la Didattica delle Discipline Statistiche.

Computational and Research Resources Center for Computational Statistics

CSIRO QStats Software
A directory of statistical software sites.

GAMS: Guide to Available Mathematical Software
A cross-index and virtual repository of mathematical and statistical software components of use in computational science and engineering.

How to study statistics (a)
T. P. Hutchinson's view on how to study statistics, aimed particularly at those who are taking their first course in statistics.

How to study statistics (b)
Michael Hughes' (Miami University) suggestions for the successful study, learning and digestion of statistical ideas.

Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications
David W. Stockburger's WWW book (Southwest Missouri State University).

Macintosh-based statistics software
A clearinghouse for information regarding using the Macintosh for statistical analysis. The emphasis here is on statistical analysis as used in marketing and other social science research. It may also be relevant for engineering and hard science applications but that's not its main focus.

Netlib
Netlib is a collection of mathematical and Statistical software, papers, and databases..

NPSTAT
NonParametric STATistical Testing.

Online Resources for Teaching Statistics
Mike Fuller's web page containing his articles from "Teaching Statistics" which provide information about online resources for the subject under the overall banner of "Net Benefits". The articles are: Welcome to the Internet, Data for Statistics Teaching, New Teaching-Statistics List, Here is the News ..., Course Design and the Internet, Spreadsheet Resources for Statistics, and The Advanced Placement Statistics Course.

Research on the Role of Technology in Teaching and Learning Statistics
Proceedings of the 1996 IASE Round Table Conference University of Granada, Spain, 23-27 July, 1996.

Servidores estadísticos

StatSoft Electronic Textbook
This Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material was developed at the StatSoft R&D department covers a wide variety of applications, including laboratory research (biomedical, agricultural, etc.), business statistics and forecasting, social science statistics and survey research, data mining, engineering and quality control applications, and many others.

Statistical Reference Datasets (StRD)

The purpose of this project is to improve the accuracy of statistical software by providing reference datasets with certified computational results that enable the objective evaluation of statistical software.

StatLib - JASA Data Archive

Statistical tables
Common (and some not so common) statistical tables from Victor L. Bissonnette (Southeastern Louisiana University).
The archive contains contributed datasets from articles published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Stats Homework
A DOS statistics analysis computer program for students taking their first statistics class, from Victor L. Bissonnette (Southeastern Louisiana University).

StatLib Index
A system for distributing statistical software, data sets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW.

Statistics HomePage
Electonic Statistics Texbook.

Statistics on the web
Clay helberg's list of statistics resources on the World Wide Web.

The Study of Stability in Variation (Text Book)

SunSITE, Austria
Computer Support for Mathematics, Statistics & Science Education, located at the University of Vienna.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

U.S. Census Bureau

The WWW Virtual Library Statistics
University of Florida , Department of Statistics list of statistics resources on the Web.

Zentralblatt Information Centre
eLIB: The Electronic Library for Mathematical Software.

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2. Associations and Centers

AERA Educational Statisticians SIG

ASA Education

Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
The object of the Bernoulli Society is the advancement of the sciences of probability and mathematical statistics and of their applications to all those aspects of human endeavour which are directed towards the increase of natural knowledge and the welfare of mankind.

Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS)

Center for Statistical Consultation and Research

Center for Statistical and Mathematical Computing

Classification Society of North America

ENAR -- Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society

Institute of Mathematical Statistics

International Association For Statistical Computing
maintained at the Department of Statistics, University of Perugia, Italy.

International Environmetric Society

L'Association des Statisticiennes et Statisticiens du Quebec (ASSQ)

National Research Center for Statistics and the Environment. Seattle, Washington.

The RAND Statistics Group

Statistics Partnership of Academe, Industry and Government (SPAIG)

SPAIG Speaker List

Statistical Education, University of Granada

Statistical Engineering Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce

Statistical Projects at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories

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3. Past Conferences

IASE 2000 Round Table Japan

ICME-9 Japan

ICOTS 5 Singapore

ISI 52nd Session Finland

MCOTS-2
The SECOND BIENNIAL MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON TEACHING STATISTICS is a Conference for Teachers of Statistics Organized by Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin Oshkosh June 25-27, 1999.

PME22 Stellenbosch, South Africa

PME23 Israel

PME24
PME 24, 23 - 27 July, 2000 will be held in Hiroshima, Japan.

SRTL1 Israel

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4. More Journals

Computational Statistics
Computational Statistics (CompStat) is an international journal which promotes the publication of applications and methodological research in the field of Computational Statistics.

Educational Studies in Mathematics

InterStat
Statistics on the Internet (InterStat) is the location where one can publish or read about any aspect of statistical research or innovative method.

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
The purpose of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics is to improve and extend the use of computational and graphical methods in statistics and data analysis.

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
The journal publishes significant and original work in areas of statistics which are related to or dependent upon the computer. Fields covered include computer algorithms related to probability or statistics, studies in statistical Inference by means of simulation techniques, and implementation of interactive statistical systems.

Journal of Statistical Software

Statistics and Computing
Statistics and Computing is a quarterly refereed journal which publishes papers covering the range of the interface between statistical and computer science.

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5. Mailing List Archives

A searchable directory of participants in on-line statistics lists and newsgroups.
This service can be used to find email addresses of people who have posted email or news to various statistics lists and newgroups.

Allstat (Web Intro)

Genstat (searchable archive)

S-news

SAS-L (WAIS Archive)

SPSS-L (WAIS Archive)

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6. News Groups

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7. Related Organizations

The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Home page for AAAS. Information on membership, sections, science policy, and their flagship journal, Science.

American Mathematical Society
American Mathematical Society's home page. Gives info on membership, activities, and other useful things like employment opportunities and a preprint server.

MATHDI Database
Mathematical Didactics 1976 - present. It gives reviews of articles on Math teaching, solicited by the staff of Zentralblatt.

Mathematical Association of America

Math Forum
The goal of Math Forum is to build an online community of teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, and citizens at all levels who have an interest in math and math education, working toward this end in the following ways.

National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences

NCTM

The Production of a Public Understanding of Mathematics
An ESRC-funded Seminar Series at The University of Birmingham, consist of four themes: One context? Many contexts? Mathematics in practices, Numeracy, schooling and society, Images and representations of mathematics.

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