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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