Almost 100 useful Web Sites for Learning More about Statistics

Note: There are way too many sites on this one page. I offer Extra Credit to anyone who

Wants to organize this page into several smaller pages. These sites were provided primarily

by former students who found them helpful. Also, if you find any of these links to be dead or

non-existent please send me an e-mail. Also, if you think a particular one should be promoted

to the top send me an e-mail too.

Salman Khan is changing the way education works. This site is ‘da bomb’

www.khanacademy.org

http://www.khanacademy.org/#Statistics

This is the on-line library for using the JMP software very useful stuff here

http://www.jmp.com/academic/learning_library.shtml

http://www.jmp.com/about/events/webcasts/entrance/explorers/dataviz_few/

Many Faculty have big problems with Wikipedia. Despite its flaws I love it.

http://www.wikipedia.org/

A breakdown of the Cartoon Guide

http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/doingscience/guide.html

Very good summaries of a ton of statistical concepts! Good for probability density/mass functions and for distribution explanations.

http://stattrek.com/

http://stattrek.com/online-tutorials/tutorial-list.aspx

Nice little site with lots of interactive applets – Look at ‘7 common errors’

http://www.meandeviation.com/tutorials/stats/

Lots of very cool probability demonstration applets – check out ‘Birthday Problem’ here

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/%7Esusan/surprise/

This site is a link to more links (a virtual statistical ‘Pandora’s box’ of fun)

http://statpages.org/

This site is like a ‘statistics dictionary’ good for finding definitions of terms

http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/index.html

This is a very ‘linked’ online textbook

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/

Graphical Glossary of statistical terms and procedures

http://www.animatedsoftware.com/elearning/Statistics%20Explained/glossary/se_glossary.html

Lots of nice little graphic demonstrations here

http://www.oswego.edu/~srp/stats/z.htm

On-line Elementary Statistics textbook

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook

Check out the ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ applets here

http://www.stat.sc.edu/rsrch/gasp/ (A Great Site for many links!!!)

http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/LetsMakeaDeal.html

Another on-line Textbook type site

http://sportsci.org/resource/stats/

Great way to check your calculations for basic statistics

http://easycalculation.com/statistics

Good site for grokking the idea of a ‘Confidence Interval’

http://onlinestatbook.com/chapter8/mean.html

This site allows you to build a histogram entering your own data set

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Histogram/

This is a very helpful explanation of distance measurement and dimensions

http://betterexplained.com/articles/measure-any-distance-with-the-pythagorean-theorem/

A standard normal curve that allows you to input z-scores and view the distribution and also allows mean and SD.

http://psych.colorado.edu/~mcclella/java/normal/normz.html

good for basic concepts and classic problems

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/

A cool random number generation explanation with applet.

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/probability.shtml

Confidence Interval simulator

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/conf_interval/index.html

Coin flip probability applet where the probability of heads can be changed to demonstrate the evening of the probability with the Law of Large Numbers.

http://bcs.whfreeman.com/ips4e/cat_010/applets/Probability.html

Quick Statistics Excel tutorial.

http://phoenix.phys.cleson.edu/tutorials/excel/stats.html

simple but nice sampling technique layout.

http://geographyfieldwork.com/urban_sampling.htm

An introduction to sampling/sampling design:

http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/fact_sample.html

The t-distribution with a java-applet:

http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras/jsm/TDensity/TDensity.html

Computing P-Values for popular distributions using JavaScript:

http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/Business-stat/otherapplets/pvalues.htm

Regression, Demonstrated:

http://www.calpoly.edu/~srein/StatDemo/All.html

Cluster Analysis:

http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/cluster.htm

Principal Component Analysis:

http://ordination.okstate.edu/PCA.htm

A Nearest Neighbor Applet:

http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~soss/cs644/projects/perrier/Nearest.html

A Monte Carlo “Dart” Applet:

http://polymer.bu.edu/java/java/montepi/montepiapplet.html

An explanation of variograms:

http://people.ku.edu/~gbohling/cpe940/Variograms.pdf

An explanation of Kriging:

http://people.ku.edu/~gbohling/cpe940/Kriging.pdf

Good source of general reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability

Some good background information with links to statistical calculator pages

http://statpages.org

Some good tutorials buried in the page

http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials

Good general search for a wide variety of problems

http://www.youtube.com

Tutorial on using EXCEL for statistics

http://phoenix.phys.clemson.edu/tutorials/excel/stats.html

Basic Statistical calculator

http://mail.pittstate.edu/~winters/tutorial/DescriptiveStatistics/index.html

Good high level overviews of statistical topics

http://www.fgse.nova.edu/edl/secure/stats/index.htm

Example EXCEL Spreadsheets

http://www.stat-help.com/spreadsheets.html

Probability Tutorial

http://library.thinkquest.org/11506/learn.html

Probability overview with some problems

http://www.tutors4you.com/probabilitytutorial.htm

Helps with setting up and using Excel for Statistics

http://www.princeton.edu/~otorres/Excel/excelstata.htm

Normal Distribution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

http://www.stat.wvu.edu/SRS/Modules/Normal/normal.html Good site

Cluster Analysis

http://www.psychstat.missouristate.edu/multibook/mlt04.htm

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~gilbert/Comp7120/ClusterAnalysis.pdf

Ordinary Least Squares

http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/least_squares.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_least_squares

ANOVA

http://geosim.cs.vt.edu/Sable/converted/ANOVA/activity.html

http://www.psychstat.missouristate.edu/introbook/SBK27.htm

Principal Component Analysis

http://www.riskglossary.com/link/principal_components.htm

http://www.ams.jhu.edu/~xye/Lecture%20notes/CH8.ppt#280,1,Slide 1

Kriging

http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/land/OldStudentProjects/cs490-94to95/clang/kriging.html

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Kriging

IDW

http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/output/html/InversedistanceweightingIDW.html

http://geography.fullerton.edu/485/Lab2.htm for doing IDW in ArcMap.

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/pubs/spherekit/inverse.html

Cross-Validation/ boot-strapping / jack-knifing

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/neural-nets/part3/section-12.html

http://www.sfu.ca/sasdoc/sashtml/stat/chap51/sect13.htm

A lot more than statistics at this site. Open Source applet site

www.shodor.org/interactivate

Why is pi day on March 14^th ? I love this geek site.

www.mathgoodies.com

This is a basic mathematics refresher site. Pretty useful if you don’t understand percentages

www.mathleague.com/help/percent/percent.htm

Probability Theory with historical, philosophical, and literary augmentation

http://www.probabilitytheory.info/

A sort of ‘statistics centered wikipedia’

www.statistics.com/resources/glossary

This might be useful for GIA students (Geog 3010)

http://www.dpi.inpe.br/gilberto/spatial_analysis.html

This is an Arizona State University site related to GeoDa, R, and Spatial Analysis

http://geodacenter.asu.edu/learning/tutorials

Webcasts and Webinars for the JMP software

http://www.jmp.biz/about/events/webcasts/jmp101.shtml

A very clean and classic interactive statistics dictionary

http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/alphabet.html

The American Statistical Association

www.amstat.org

Econometrics and Forecasting Emphasis

www.xycoon.com

Permutations and Combinations explained Oh My!

http://www.mathsisfun.com/combinatorics/combinations-permutations.html

Cool Tutorial on Clustering

http://home.dei.polimi.it/matteucc/Clustering/tutorial_html/

Box and Whisker Plots explained

http://www.purplemath.com/modules/boxwhisk.htm

Nice little Statistics Quiz at this site

http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11308/grade4to6wksp/probability.htm

Very Cool literary and conceptual site dedicated to the idea of ‘Uncertainty’

http://understandinguncertainty.org/node/86

The Uniform Distribution explained

http://www.brighton-webs.co.uk/distributions/uniformc.asp

The Poisson Distribution explained

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/math/poifcn.html

The Binomial Distribution explained

http://www.krysstal.com/binomial.html

An article explaining ‘The Monty Hall’ problem

http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_07_03.html

Another way to explain the ‘Standard Deviation’

http://www.robertniles.com/stats/stdev.shtml

Another take on Cluster Analysis

http://www.psychstat.missouristate.edu/MultiBook/mlt04.htm