Student Resources

Google and YouTube are your friends – you can find information and explanations (much of excellent quality) on virtually any topic of interest. The links here are to sites supported by teachers of statistics.

The Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics

This website contains statistical simulations and Hyperstat, an online text book.

 

Course Notes for Quantitative Research Methods

Course notes for Quantitative Research in Public Administration, by G. David Garson. Text covers a range of topics including correlation, ANOVA, log-linear models, cluster analysis, and resampling.

 

Khan Academy

This site includes thousands of short video presentations (about 10-12 minutes) on a wide range of topics in science and mathematics, including more than 100 on statistics and probability.

 

Statistics Hell

This quirky site includes many useful explanations, with humor that may amuse, annoy, or offend.

 

Karl Wuensch's Statistical Help Page

Vast number of links to statistics resources, including discussions of specific topics

 

David Howell's Statistical Homepage

Written by the author of a popular statistics textbook, this page offers data sets, exercises, archived discussion lists, lists of errors, and examples that correspond with the texts, but the pages may be used independent of the texts.

 

Choosing the Right Statistical Test

A table depicting guidelines for choosing the appropriate statistical test based upon factors such as the nature of independent and dependent variables.  Includes links to guides on how to conduct the corresponding test in SAS, Stata, and SPSS.

 

Last updated: September 30, 2011