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NOTE: PAGE NO LONGER BEING UPDATED AS OF JUNE 2007

RESEARCH METHODS RESOURCES ON THE WWW

 


QUANTATIVE DATA ANALYSIS



STATISTICS & ARCHIVED DATA


It's fairly easy to find all sorts of instruction on using statistics as well as archived statistical data on the Web. These are a few sites at which you might want to take a look

The Data and Story Library

Data on the Net

Elaborating Program Impacts Through Data Analysis

General Social Survey Resources

Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Social Science Data Archives

Social Science Data on the Net

UBC Library -- Data Library


STATISTICAL ANALYSIS


Analysis, by William M.K. Trochim [module in online book]

Correlations

Eliminating Accidental Weighting, by John Fitzgerald

Gary C. Ramseyer's First INTERNET Gallery of Statistics Jokes

How Do I Pick the Correct Statistical Test?

How to Display Data Badly [Real Audio "Chance" lecutre by Howard Wainer,  Educational Testing Service]

How to Read a Paper: Statistics for the Non-statistician. I: Different Types of Data Need Different Statistical Tests, by Trisha Greenhalgh

How to Read a Paper: Statistics for the Non-statistician. II: "Significant" Relations and Their Pitfalls, by Trisha Greenhalgh

How Numbers are Tricking You

HyperStat Online

InStat Guide to Choosing and Interpreting Statistical Tests [online textbook]

Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications [online textbook]

Investigating Statistics, by Robert Hale

Lies, Damned Lies and ...statistics, by  Judith Hatton

The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice, by Gerard E. Dallal

Making Your Data Talk, by John FitzGerald

Margin of Error

Multivariate Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications

A New View of Statistics, by Will G. Hopkins

Probability and Statistics in Gaming [Real Audio "Chance" lecture by Olaf Vancura,  Harvard University]

Simple Data Measurement: A Workbook, by Alison Galloway

Six Phases of the Research Process, by Marion Joppe

7 Common Errors

Statistical Analysis of Data, by Mike Raulin [PowerPoint presentation]

Statistical Power Calculator

Statistical Significance

Statistics at Square One [online textbook by T D V Swinscow]

Statistics?! Don't Make Me Laugh!, by Jill Binker

Statistics Every Writer Should Know

Statnotes: An Online Textbook, by G. David Garson

StatPrimer, by B. Gerstman

StatSoft: Electronic Textbook

SURFSTAT Australia

Technological Innovations in Data Collection: Acceptance, Data Quality and Costs

Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!

 
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These pages were originally created for the course ARST/LIBR 590: Research Methods in Libraries & Archives. As I am no longer teaching that course I have stopped updating the pages as of June 2007.

Last updated August 8, 2004

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