Disciplines & Professions: Statistics

Web Sites

Open Directory's Statistics Directory
http://dmoz.org/Science/Math/Statistics/

Provides links to 400+ sites dealing with statistics and offers visitors an additional subject heading under which related information is located. This site also provides an annotated list of 45 useful URLs.

Statistics on the Web
http://www.execpc.com/~helberg/statistics.html

An independently maintained Web site whose Web master has complied a listing of useful statistical Internet resources and annotated them regarding content and usefulness.

WWW Virtual Library of Statistics
http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html

Maintained by the University of Florida Department of Statistics, this site lists links to other academic programs, government programs, and private research institutions. Also includes general resources organized by subject and links to journals.

Yahoo!'s Statistics Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Mathematics/Statistics/

Offers over 30 annotated links to popular statistics Web sites and allows the Yahoo! search engine to be confined to statistics-related topics.

Print Resources

Current Index to Statistics. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 1975-.

Indexes journals, books, proceedings, and some book reviews. Organized alphabetically by author's last name and in a separate, alphabetical subject index.

Everitt, B. S. The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.

Contains definitions and explanations for more than 3,000 terms and concepts, as well as short biographical entries on 100 notable statisticians. Organized alphabetically.

Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts. Voorburg, Netherlands: The International Statistical Institute, 1960-.

Provides abstracts and citations for articles from mainly specialized journals, but also relevant articles in journals from other fields. Organized topically, but may be searched through the author index.

Vogt, W. Paul. Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999.

Provides 2,000 alphabetically organized definitions. Includes tables and figures to help explain many concepts and terms. Also offers a short list of suggestions for further reading.

Zwillinger, Daniel, and Stephen Kokosa. Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae. New York: Chapman and Hall, 2000.

This book demonstrates the foundational concepts of statistical theory. Each chapter focuses on 1 statistical procedure. An index is included.