Statistics at UPS

University of Puget Sound Statistics Resources

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Puget Sound, CMB 1043
Tacoma, WA 98416-1043

Some applets programmed by James Bernhard

University of Puget Sound statistics course offerings

Math 160: Introduction to Applied Statistics General syllabus / Course guide
Math 260: Intermediate Applied Statistics General syllabus / Course guide
Math 373: Linear Statistical Modeling General syllabus / Course guide
Math 375: Probability Theory and its Applications General syllabus / Course guide
Math 376: Mathematical Statistics General syllabus / Course guide

Data Sets

Data and Story Library (DASL, pronounced "dazzle")
Australian Data and Story Library (OzDASL, pronounced "oz dazzle")
Quantitative Environmental Learning Project data sets
Education Queensland data sets
Washington State Data Book, published by the Office of Financial Management of the State of Washington
Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Analysis Project website, with a large amount of current and historical economic data for the Pacific Northwest
The Great Backyard Bird Count, with all sorts of data on birds around the US (and elsewhere!)
The Essex Field Club, which has data on various wildlife around the UK
swivel.com, a wide variety of data collect from lots of different sources (kind of like youtube for data)
statsci.org, a list with links to many data sets
UCLA Stats data sets
Journal of Statistics Education
Time Series Data Library
Dunn's data sets (R format)
EEPS Data Zoo
CHANCE data sets
Sean Lahman's Baseball Archive
The Math Forum data sets
Data sets from Experimental Design and Analysis for Biologists by Quinn and Keough
Bureau of Labor Statistics website
B&E Data Links website, containing many links to business, economic, and financial data (sponsored by the Business and Economics Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association)
Rogers Economics website, with links to data relating to key economic indicators
Economagic website, containing a very large collection of economic time series data
Resources for Economists website, with links to lots of economic data, including data from several economic journals (sponsored by the American Economic Association)
Energy Administration Information, containing official energy statistics from the U.S. Government
World Bank data site, with a wide range of data about countries around the world
Website for the Office of the Chief Actuary within the Social Security Administration
Website for The Sports Network, with plenty of sports data
Website for ESPN, also with plenty of sports data
Data sets for A Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis by Chatterjee, Handcock, and Simonoff
Data set section of causeweb.org, linking to various interesting data sets
StatLib Datasets Archive, a large collection of data sets in a variety of fields
Infochimps, a website whose tagline is “Find any dataset in the world”
Numbrary, a site devoted to organizing data from a variety of sources
Gapminder, a website devoted to statistics about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels
Timetric, a website specializing in visualization and statistics for time series data
UCI Machine Learning Repository, full of large data sets (often good for data mining)

Statistics Applets and Other Teaching Aids

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics Applets, containing a large collection of well-written statistics applets
CAUSEweb's Probability Distributions section of their website, with a collection of applets and information about common probability distributions
Jo Hardin's applets, featuring many useful applets for teaching various levels of statistics
R. Webster West's applets, a large collection of statistics applets, including ones for displaying and interacting with common distributions
Interactive Statistics Educational Package, a collection of statistics applets developed at John Carroll University
Collection of applets from Moore and McCabe's Introduction to the Practice of Statistics
University of Alabama in Huntsville Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics (Mozilla Firefox browser only)
Histogram applet, showing the effect of changing histogram bin widths
Quincunx applet, an animated version of Gosset's device that illustrates the central limit theorem
Another quincunx applet, with some parameters (such as speed) that can be adjusted
Least squares versus Least Absolute Deviations applet
Let's Make a Deal applet, illustrating that famous (infamous?) probability problem
Birthday applet, simulating birthdays of people in a room to see if there are any in common
Cliff-hanger, simulating a 1-dimensional random walk (near a cliff!)
The Cereal Box Problem, including an applet simulating the purchase of cereal boxes to collect all the prizes
Dice Rolling applet, simulating the rolling of dice large numbers of times
Confidence Interval applet, depicting confidence intervals for means for multiple sets of simulated data
The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager, an interactive statistical graphic for visualizing frequencies of baby names over time
Many Eyes, a site devoted to data visualization

Public Opinion Polls

Statistics (and Statisticians) in the News links

Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), devoted to the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media
Chance News, a newsletter that reviews articles in the news that use probability or statistical concepts (chance news)
Statisticians in the News section of the American Statistical Association website

Microarray-related links

Homepage for the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT), headquarted at Davidson College.
Homepage of the Bioconductor project, a set of R packages devoted to the analysis of microarrays