Friday, 9 November 2012

Some resources for Statistics Teachings and Learning

There are a number of resources out there for learning statistics. This is not going to be an exhaustive list but here are a few that I am aware of.

Statlib

This is a really old website, do not expect anything fancy as you would on more modern ones but it is a repository of all things statistical from the community over the years. There is therefore a lot of stuff on it; for instance they have a large data archive with many data set available for download. Many of these are published data sets that go with specific books. There are also a R Archive  and also a S Archive but plenty other software as well

Pmean

This is where Steve's Attempt to Teach Statistics(StATS) is now housed. Steve Simon who created both this site and the former site (StATS) is a statistical consultant but spent many years working at the Mercy Children's hospital and training medical researchers there in the use of statistics. There are many pages on that website but just to give you a flavour, he has a page linking to teaching resources, so you can see whether the free stats books are any good.

StatSoft Text book

Statsoft developed Statistica but they also have provided a free textbook on line which covers a wide variety of topics and I often end up there when I need to give a student a reference to something in particular. No it does not require you to buy Statistica

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics

Another website that is useful they have another text book but even better are some of their demonstrations and even better I find they also have case studies which look to me as it they might have come out of Glasgow's STEPS initiative.

Scholarship of Learning and Teaching Statistics at Glasgow

A long time ago, before all the E-Science initiative or event the teaching centres of excellence before that there was a group of people in Glasgow who were experts on developing teaching software for statistics. They might not be so high profile these days but they still exist . It is worth checking them out occasionally.

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