It's 1:42 p.m., you are cruising the internet and you get the urge to plan some heavy duty research. Where to go, what to do, and what to see? You might try visiting some of the following sites. Many focus just on methods; many just on stats. Yet others take you down the theory road.
So, its really late and you have forgotten the difference between a standard deviation and a standard error. You need a glossary. Try visiting the Statglos. Need more detailed help? David Lane of Rice University has an online text called HyperStat that is worth checking out. Another 24-hour online stats course can be found at George Mason University. An online set of methods topics is located at Cornell under the title Knowledge Base. Knowledge base is oriented toward undergraduates but, hey, it is 1:42 p.m., after all!
You've become a SAS junkie. Can't get enough of it. Visit the SAS homepage. Need some help in the form of sample datastep programs? Skip the preliminaries and go to the SAS datastep help page.
Of course there is alwaysYahoo. Enter the keyword of your choice and get a listing of one million eight hundred and fifty seven thousand six hundred and fourteen items on which to click your mouse. Many of the listings will be pointers to tutorials, documents and other aids to help smooth your furrowed brow.
Now for some more serious stuff . . .
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Software MuPAD, is a symbolic algebra program similar to Mathematica and Maple from the University of Paderborn in Germany. SciLab, is a Matlab-like matrix manipulation program. Gnuplot is a small program for generating functions and data plots. Those familiar with Gary King's book A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem might want to check out King's software page. He has several programs for analyzing ecological data as well as some nifty stuff on missing data. McSim is a package for monte-carlo simulations. Ox is a package for general matrix manipulation. EpiMeta is a freeware package provided by the US CDC for conducting meta analysis. Lisp-Stat is an S/Splus type package for those on a shoestring. This is great software for doing development work in statistics or for those who like to see how textbook formulas translate into real results. |
Data and other things ICPSR, has volumes of social science data. Scope out ICPSR's web page. Social Science Data on the Web is a search engine for guess what. The UK based Social Science Information Gateway is another great link for finding stuff. Check the "statistics" links. Research Resources for the Social Sciences is an excellent node for pursuing theory and methods links in many disciplines. Those interested in content analysis should check out this site. The Sociology Dept. at the University of Surrey has a series of online reviews or updates that cover topics from CATI, to diary research, to qualitative data analysis. Jstor contains back copies of the ASR, AJS and many other journals that can be reached online. This site is only accessible, however, through a UWO domain address. For a truly mind expanding experience, you might want to visit A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace. The psychadelic '60s live on in a Texas website! Not to be missed. Also, don't forget that the UWO library has a set of database and full-text resource links. |
Last modified: January 2, 1999