Statistics sites

Last updated 22 August 1999

• The British Medical Journal has started an excellent series on finding and assessing medical articles, which includes understanding statistics:

  • Statistics for the non-statistician
    Also see a correction

  • Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls

• Also at BMJ: Statistics and research methods , one of the 'collections'--is BMJ great or what! <;-)

• Calculations has links to pages that calculate stats.

• The Canadian Medical Association has a series on basic statistics for clinicians:
  • Hypothesis testing

  • Interpreting study results: confidence intervals

  • Assessing the effects of treatment: measures of association

  • Correlation and regression

• Stats resources: teaching materials from the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Virginia

• Hyperstat Online , an online textbook by David Lane of Rice University also has many useful links.

• Introductory Statistics by David Stockburger of Southwest Missouri State University.

• Journal of Statistics Education has full text articles. A great for teachers.

• p values are well explained in this paper: Cohen J. The earth is round (p<.05). American Psychologist 1994;49:997-1003.

• Research methods ("The Knowledge Base") by William Trochim of Cornell University has three main parts : Introduction to Research; Sampling, Measurement & Design; and Data Analysis. Scroll down to "Data Analysis" for the stats goodies. Although targetted to research in the social sciences, this online textbook has great explanations of concepts such as power.

• Stats for clinicians from the University of Texas-Houston Health Sciences Center.

• Statistics from GraphPad has some easy-to-understand mini-tutorials on concepts such as p values and outliers.

• Surfstat by Keith Dear of the University of Newcastle in Australia

• Statistics glossary has medical and clinical research terms too.