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The resources listed below focus on statistics as a discipline and a science, particularly as an application towards the social sciences. For lists of resources that have statistics relevant to other subject areas, visit these subject pages.

Professional Associations
Selected Publications
Selected Journals
Useful Websites

Professional Associations

  • American Statistical Association
    1429 Duke Street
    Alexandria, VA 22314-3415
    The ASA is a scientific and educational society founded in 1839 to foster excellence in the use and application of statistics to the biological, physical, social and economic sciences.

  • Econometric Society
    Department of Economics
    Northwestern University
    2003 Sheridan Rd.
    Evanston, IL 60208-2600
    The ES promotes studies that are directed towards unification of the theoretical and empirical approaches to economic problems and advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics.

  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics
    P.O. Box 22718
    Beachwood, OH 44122
    Fostering the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability, the IMS seeks to further research in these areas.

  • National Institute of Statistical Sciences
    19 T.W. Alexander Drive
    P.O. Box 14006
    Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-4006
    A collaborative effort of several other international statistics societies, this project-based organization performs and stimulates c Ross -disciplinary research involving statistics.

Selected Publications

Selected Journals

Useful Websites
  • Mathworld
    Wolfram Research maintains this compendium of mathematical definitions, derivations, and proofs. This is a link to the "Probability and Statistics" section of the Mathworld website
  • Econometric Links
    The Royal Economic Society, publishers of Econometrics Journal, hosts this collection of links relevant to econometrics.
  • Statistical tables
    Probability tables: For those that prefer to look probability and testing values up in a new old-fashioned way; in a table, but without the bulkiness of a book. Tables are in PDF format.
Probability calculators
    Select the desired distribution, type of test, and other parameters as required by the distribution selected.

  • Australian National University: Standard Normal, Student's t, Chi-squared, Binomial
  • GraphPad Calculate P values and z, t, F, and other values.
  • UCLA Department of Statistics Includes CDF and PDF calculators and plotters.
  • Cytel Probability values for 25 continuous, non-centered, and discrete distributions can be determined using this Java-based resource from Cytel.
Random number generators
  • Random integers
    Generates 500 random integers. From Australian National University.
  • Random numbers
    Generate random numbers for various distributions based on user-specified parameters. From UCLA's Department of Statistics.
  • Random numbers
    Generate a specified quantity numbers between user-selected values, or generate numbers from a Gaussian distribution. From GraphPad.
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