Astrid's Statistics & Methodology Links

The following links provide information on most basic statistics topics, and a link for ethics(14) and literature searches (15).
  1. Introduction to Quantitative Methods by Gene Glass, containing further links
  2. Statistics Glossary
  3. Online Statistical Tests
  4. Statistics Homepage
  5. Notes on Writing a Research (Lab) Report
  6. A Hypertext Guide to Writing Research Reports
  7. Pitfalls of Data Analysis: an article on interpretation of results
  8. MetaAnalysis
  9. Basic Concepts
  10. D.Howell's Statistics Home Page
  11. Frequently Asked Questions in Statistics; compiled by Rich Ulrich, Biostatistician, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  12. Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations!
  13. Datasets to practice statistics on can be downloaded from the following sites:
    http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html
    http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/
  14. Ethics guidelines from the British Psychological Society are at Durham Psychology Department
    Some information may be specific to Durham.
  15. Searching articles reporting previous research can be done via Web of Science.
    You have to be registered. Information about registration has to be obtained from the library.


Astrid Schepman, University of Edinburgh

email: astrid@ling.ed.ac.uk