Statistical Web Resources

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.

Within the University

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Software

• 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.

Other resources on the Web

• 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.

Questions about the School of Statistics? Email to info@stat.umn.edu.