The answer to your question might be of interest to the list, so I am copying it to them.

Some online statistics training resources, in no particular order:

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/
http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/sbk00.htm
http://www.helsinki.fi/~jpuranen/links.html
http://glass.ed.asu.edu/stats/
http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/opre504online/opre504online.htm
http://www.statistics.com/
http://www.statsoftinc.com/textbook/stathome.html
http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/
http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/texts.htm
http://www.statistics.com/content/courses.html
http://statistics.cyberk.com/splash/
http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/contents.html
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html

And some products you might find useful, in no particular order:

http://www.spss.com/
http://www.aspiresoftwareintl.com/html/spss_maps1.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
http://salstat.sourceforge.net/
http://www.astro.psu.edu/statcodes/sc_general.html
http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta2.html


-- Jon

Charles Curley wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 02:25:35PM -0500, Jon Roland wrote:

Speaking as a mathematician and computer professional, who has done a fair amount of statistical analysis (and written computer programs to do it), I have to say that most of the statistics cited in these discussions are nearly meaningless, and are useless for guiding policy decisions. The ways people are using them are incompetent at best, and sometimes lapse into tergiversation.


Jon, well said and rather provocative. I am disappointed but not
surprised that there has been no response on the list to this. I
wonder if the reason is that many of the people on the list who have
the detailed knowledge of stats necessary to rebut have too much
invested in the debate to recognize that it is bogus, and so don't
want to touch the points you raise.

Another reason for the overwhelming non-response may be that if one is
promoting non-solutions, then one may be morally responsible (directly
or indirectly) for the lives sacrificed on the altars of the
non-solutions.

I should extend my knowledge of stats from my college intro course
many years ago. Can you point me to a decent intro to stats on the
net?

Thanks

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