Statistics and Mathematics Links

Links to Interesting Sites in Statistics, Mathematics, and Actuarial Science

Statistics in Life and Education

U.C. Berkeley Stat Lab - A great lab used in teaching statistical methods at U.C. Berkeley

Journal of Statistics Education - A very interesting journal. Much analysis of real-life and topical data

Chance News . Interesting quantitative analyses of much that appears in the world press

Andrew Gelmans's Blog Interesting and insighful comments on statistics in theory and real life by an eminent Bayesian

GASP - (Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures) Applets from U. of South Carolina illustrating many applications of probability and statistics

STATS - A newsletter put out by George Mason University that comments on statistics in the media

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics - Contains many applets, and a good online statistics text book, HyperStat Online

SticiGui - Very good online text with many examples and applets by Professor P.B. Stark at U.C. Berkeley

Portraits and Pictures - Pictures of many famous statisticians put out by the Department of Mathematics at the University of York (U.K.)

Biographies of Statisticians Follow up page to the above, giving descriptions of the carrers of many famous statisticians.


Statistical Data

FEDSTATS - Government Statistics from over 100 government agencies

CENSUS 2000 - Data from the 2000 Census. Federal law mandates that a census be taken every 10 years, and the 2010 Census is currently underway

American Fact Finder Page put out by the Census Bureau for quick access to data on many topics

Statistical Abstract of the United States "The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States".

ANES, American National Election Studies Produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation .

Bureau of Labor Statistics Information about prices, (un)employment, inflation etc. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) can be accessed here.

JSE Data Sets - Huge archive of datat sets from the Journal of Statistics Education

Data and Story Library - A collection of data sets, with detailed descriptions, each one suitable for one or several methods of statistical analysis. Put out by Carnegie-Mellon University.

U.K. Statistics - Government Statistics from the United Kingdom

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) "Your online source for credible health information"

Heath Statistics Great source for health statistics, lifetables etc. put out by CDC

The Federal Reserve System Excellent source of financial statistics and economic indicators

United Nations Statistics Division International Statistics on a variety of topics: economy, health, the environment, demography etc.


Statistical Computing and Calculators

The R-programming language for statistical analysis - R may be downloaded for free. It is a language similar to S

Quick-R Really well designed page put out by Dr. Robert I. Kabakoff for quick access to many R procedures

Graphing Calculators (all models) - Prentice-Hall page where you can find instructions for nearly all graphing calculators (TI, HP, Casio, Sharp)


Statistical Organisations

American Statistical Association - The homepage of the American Statistical Association

Worldwide listing of statistics departments and organisations - Comprehensive listing taken from the Carnegie-Mellon Stat Departmen't Home Page

Carnegie Mellon's Stat Department - A good starting point for browsing the web for information about statistics

The Census Bureau - Probably employs more statisticians than any organisation in the world. Check their job site.


Are you Interested in being an Actuary ?

The Society of Actuaries - Gives you much information about the actuarial profession, the society's exams, rules etcetera

The best page for those interested in an actuarial career Web page maintained jointly by the SOA (Society of Actuaries) and the CAS (Casualty and Actuarial Society)


Mathematics Links

Biographies of Mathematicians - Index of biographies of Mathematicians compiled at St Andrews University in Scotland

Mathematics Departments - Listing of Mathematics Departments at U.S. universities (courtesy of Penn State)

Do you want to earn a million dollars ? - The Millenium Problems

Timothy Gowers' Homepage - Cambridge University Fields Medalist who has elegant and lucid essays on such subjects as continuity, the square root of 2, solving analysis problems etc. (There is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics. A Fields Medal is considered the equivalent). His book "A Very Short Introduction to Mathematics" should be required reading for anyone contemplating a career in the subject. And for many other people too come to that.

Very interesting blog of Terry Tao Another Fields Medallist (at UCLA). If you are seriously interested in becoming a mathematician check the "Career Advice" link.

The opinions of Doron Zeiberger These are both instructive and entertaining, though you may not agree with all (or any) of them. (I agree with many).


For Macintosh Users

TexShop for MAC users Download LaTex program for Macintosh at this page, maintained by Richard Koch, U. of Oregon

Versiontracker - Versiontracker for keeping MAC programs up to date


The Rest of the World

GOOGLE - Always good to have at hand

Viktor Toth's Programmable Calculator Museum - Fascinating collection of well known, and less well known, calculators. Much interesting historical and technical information is provided.

Spartacus History Page - An interesting U.K. based web-page. Tells you a few things you might not get in the standard texts over here (or over there).