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Educational Resources

Hyperstat: An on-line statistics textbook

    SticiGui: On-line statistics textbook used at UC Berkeley

Surfstat: an educational site with notes, exercises, java applets, and links

Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics: Simulations, demonstrations, case studies, etc.

Berrie's Statistics Page: quicktime and java illustrations of statistical concepts

Chance News: Summary of newspaper and magazine articles using statistics

    The First Measured Century: PBS program and book; a statistical view of US history

History of Statistics and Statisticians

Statistical Calculators (UCLA): on-line histograms, boxplots, hypothesis tests, regression, etc.

    More links: SMSU, Univ. Florida, Univ. Helsinki

 

Data Resources

General

StatLib: A library of statistical databases at Carnegie-Mellon University

Statistical Resources on the Web: University of Michigan documents center

U.S. Government

FedStats: One-stop shopping for federal statistics

Federal Reserve Economic Database: Economic data for the United States

Bureau of Economic Analysis: Department of Commerce data

Bureau of Labor Statistics; Consumer Price Index 

Bureau of the Census; Statistical Abstract of the United States, International Data Base 

Economic and Demographic Data

Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Good source of current economic data. 

Social Statistics Briefing Room: Good source of recent demographic and social data. 

Geospatial and Statistical Data Center: Data for various geographic units. 

Harvard-MIT Data Center: Much of this data can only be downloaded with a password. 

Social Science Data on the Web (UCSD): Excellent index of data available on the web. 

Poll Data

Gallup.com: Gallup poll data

Princeton University Survey Research Center: Lots of info on tracking down polling data. 

Polling Sources on the Web: Another good source for finding polling data. 

Government and Politics

Politics Online: Good general source of info on American politics. 

Government Information Sharing Project: Data on US states and counties. 

Election Statistics: Federal election vote returns since 1920. 

National Election Study: Download site for the US National Election Study. 

Opensecrets.org: The online source for money in politics data. 

Federal Election Commission: Data on federal campaign spending. 

Library of Congress: As much info about Congress as you are ever likely to need. 

Congressional Observer Publications: Data on the US Congress including roll call votes. 

Voter Information Services: Info on members of Congress including interest-group ratings. 

Political Science Resources (UC Irvine): Many good links to California specific data. 

International

United Nations Statistics Division: Economic, demographic, political, and social data. 

OECD Statistics: International economic, demographic, political, and social data. 

Eurostat: Official data from the EC.

CIA World Factbook: Excellent source of country level data from your friends at the CIA. 

CIESIN Information Service: Source of international data. 

        ICB: International Crisis Behavior Project