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Links to Other Teaching Resources

Faculty and students are encouraged to submit their favorite Web sites that focus on quantitative teaching resources for undergraduate and graduate education. These links should include materials that can be used in the classroom. They will be reviewed by the Instructional Materials and Information Subcommittee for possible posting on this site. Links should be emailed to dburrell@icpsr.umich.edu with the title "Teaching Links/ICPSR" on the subject line.

• Thinking With Data
• Online Textbooks
• Instructional Datasets
• Interactive Applications
• Software Guides

Thinking With Data

• Chance (Dartmouth College) Course materials for teaching quantitative literacy, including a monthly newsletter, videos of lectures, audio presentations, syllabi, additional teaching aids, and links to other sites.

• GEOSTAT: Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, User Projects and Partnerships (University of Virginia) Course materials from various disciplines using spatial data analysis.

• Survey Documentation and Analysis (UC Berkeley) Online statistical analysis and creation of data subsets for a number of datatsets, including the General Social Survey and the National Election Studies. Links to other SDA sites.

• Teaching Resources Depository (California State University) Instructional modules and exercises with datasets, sections on information competency and critical thinking, an SPSS primer, and other teaching and learning tools.

• Virtual Lab in Statistics (Rice University) An online statistics text, Java applets, case studies, and online statistical analysis.

See also:

• Social Science Data Collections (University of Miami)

• Statistics Tutorials (Oklahoma State University)

Online Textbooks

• Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics (Lowry, Vassar) Elementary through intermediate, with an emphasis on nonparametric tests.

• Electronic Textbook (StatSoft) Elementary through advanced, mostly the latter. Includes an extensive glossary.

• Surfstat (Australian National University) Elementary through intermediate. Includes glossary. Links to other statistics resources.

See also:

• Introductory Statistics (Stockburger, Southwest Missouri State University) and Multivariate Statistics (Stockburger, Southwest Missouri State University)

• Statistics at Square One (Swinscow)

Instructional Datasets

• DASL: Data and Story Library (Carnegie Mellon). Stories and associated data files used to teach statistical concepts across a wide range of disciplines.

• SSDAN: Social Science Data Analysis Network Exercise Modules (Frey). Datasets and exercises using the U.S. Census.

Interactive Applications

• GASP: Globally Accessible Statistical Procedures (University of South Carolina) Java applets and forms for data analysis and education.

• VassarStats (Lowry, Vassar College) Online statistical analysis. Allows users to enter their own data.

• WebStat Online statistical analysis. Allows users to enter their own data.

See also:

• Java Applets (Duke University)

• Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations! (Pezzoli)

Software Guides

• Statistical Computing (UCLA) Resources for using SPSS, SAS, Stata, etc.