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Online Statistics Courses
- Introduction to Statistics 101 - UdacityThis free online course teaches "visualization, probability, regression and other topics that will help you learn the basic methods of understanding data with statistics."
- Statistical Thinking for Managerial Decisions"This Web site is a course in statistics appreciation; i.e., acquiring a feeling for the statistical way of thinking. It contains various useful concepts and topics at many levels of learning statistics for decision making under uncertainties. The cardinal objective for this Web site is to increase the extent to which statistical thinking is merged with managerial thinking for good decision making under uncertainty."
Free site, supported by National Science Foundation
Statistical Methods
Call Number: H62 .L456 2004
Location: Reference - 1st Level North
Location: Reference - 1st Level North
Print and eBook. "The Encyclopedia features two major types of entries: definitions, consisting of a paragraph or two, provide a quick explanation of a methodological term; and topical treatments or essays discussing the nature, history, application/example and implication of using a certain method. Also included are suggested readings and references for future study."
Essays explain qualitative research methods and provide info on further reading. Includes numerous methodologies & techniques, data collection & analysis, research design & planning, ethics, rigor, dissemination & writing, theoretical frameworks, etc.
Entries include survey stat methods, sampling, ethics, questionnaires, nonresponse issues, operations issues, etc.
This electronic reference work offers explanations of numerous statistical techniques and tests.
This handbook includes survey essays on statistics processes useful in areas of financial economics and financial econometrics, such as GARCH-modeling, stochastic volatility modeling, continuous time processes, Cointegration and Unit Roots, as well as special topics related to risk, time series, and simulation based methods.
"Conjoint analysis (CA) and discrete choice experimentation (DCE) are tools used in marketing, economics, transportation, health, tourism, and other areas to develop and modify products, services, policies, and programs, specifically ones that can be described in terms of attributes."
Statistics Textbooks
"This Electronic Statistics Textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material was developed at the StatSoft R&D department based on many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics courses and covers a wide variety of applications, including laboratory research (biomedical, agricultural, etc.), business statistics and forecasting, social science statistics and survey research, data mining, engineering and quality control applications, and many others." Includes modules on on many specific statistical methods.
Open access textbook
Open access textbook
"Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for those with some statistical background, this unique, self-teaching guide provides an effective, painless way to learn or review the statistics that can help ensure your business success."
Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics - eBook
This "free, full-length, and occasionally interactive statistics textbook" includes chapters on principles of measurement, distributions, correlation & regression, and statistical significance.
Open access textbook
Open access textbook
Includes a hyperlinked online statistics text, simulations/demonstrations, case studies, links to other online statistics texts, etc.
Open access textbook
Open access textbook
Includes one-parameter models, Monte Carlo approximation, normal model, posterior approximation with the Gibbs sampler, multivariate normal model, group comparisons and hierarchical modeling, linear regression, nonconjugate priors and Metropolis-Hastings algorithms, linear and generalized linear mixed effects models, & latent variable methods for ordinal data.
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