This page provides links to a variety of statistical resources within
the University, to statistical package providers, and to other useful
places on the web.
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The Academic and Distributed Computing Services telephone helpline for
statistical package support is
612-624-3330, or 1-help from on campus, or via email statsoft@umn.edu.
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Information about
University site licenses for
JMP, SPSS, STATA and SAS.
Are you working with animal or human subjects? Guidelines for
protecting the interests of your subjects are given by the Research subjects
protection programs.
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The Minnesota Center
for Survey Research (MCSR) provides survey research services to
University faculty and administration, state and local government
agencies, and nonprofit organizations working on issues of public policy
in Minnesota. They also provide consultation in areas such as study and
questionnaire design, survey administration, data file construction, and
data analysis.
The Office of Measurement Services
provides a variety of consulting, measurement, optical scanning, and data
processing services which support the research and teaching activities of
the University of Minnesota that may be available to outside users as well.
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The Biostatistics, Design,
and Analysis Center is a service component of the Academic Health
Center, and
provides a wide range of statistical and/or computer services. These
include study planning, designing of forms, data management, statistical
analysis, and results summarization. The lab can also arrange for data
coding and data entry.
The SAS Institute for the SAS package.
The JMP home page.
The Minitab home page.
SPSS for the SPSS package.
MacAnova is a locally
produced free software package that is quite similar to Splus.
Arc is a locally produced free software
package for regression analysis and graphics.
The Splus statistical package,
based on the S package developed at Bell Labs.
The R project is an international
cooperative effort similar to Linux for the maintanence and development of a
statistical package called R that is available without charge for most
operating systems. R can do almost anything, and there are lots of
books that can help as well (almost anything that runs with S or Splus will
work with R).
A very simple, intuitive
power calculator, by Russ Lenth at the University of Iowa, will be
useful for many people.
Draw random sample in various ways using the form at
http://www.randomizer.org.
A guide to free
statistical software is also available.
The American Statistical
Association has many useful links and other information available
on their site.
The World
Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics at the University of Florida
provides many links to data sources, statistical job announcements,
academic statistics departments, educational materials, government
statistical agencies, and much more.
The Statistical Science Web
is another comprehensive source of links to the world of statistics.
StatLib
at Carnegie-Mellon University provides an array of useful items relating to
statistics.
The National Institute
of Science and Technology provides a textbook on engineering statistics
and many may find useful.
HyperStatistics Online
provides an on-line statistics text and a list of other on-line statistics
books.
The U. S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics Web Site has a useful
guide
to good statistical practice.