Useful websites for help with statistics and research

[Elsie]

For those who find statistics and research a little daunting, here are some useful websites that can shed a little light on the dark matter!

Useful Wiki’s
Comprehensive Research Methods Wiki
http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Research_methods

Normal Distribution Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

Incredibly useful site about research methods
The Research Methods Knowledge Base

Need help deciding which statistical test to use?
Interactive tool to help you choose which statistical test to use
http://www.whichtest.info/index.html

Statistical test flowchart
http://newwww.ballarat.edu.au/ard/sci-eng/student_info/styleguide/appendix_5.pdf


SPSS Guides
Very accessible ‘How to’ guide to using SPSS written by staff at Birmingham University
http://www.statsguides.bham.ac.uk/

Online SPSS Tutorials
http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/spss.htm

SPSS Online Training Network
http://calcnet.mth.cmich.edu/org/spss/toc.htm


Statistics Hell…or is it? Website written by Andy Field from the University of Sussex. If you can ignore the 'hellish' web design he explains stats in a very easy-to-understand way!
http://www.statisticshell.com/statisticshell.html


Explanation of the concepts and applications of inferential statistics, for a variety of statistical tests
http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/webtext.html


A wealth of extremely useful statistical calculators
http://www.danielsoper.com/statcalc/


Calculate the one-tailed and two-tailed probabilities of t for any given value of df.
http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/tabs.html#t


Tables for Probability Distributions
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda367.htm


Tables for Power Analysis
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/mawhatley/7670/power.htm


How to transform data
http://pareonline.net/getvn.asp?v=8&n=6


National statistics – home of official UK statistics
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/default.asp


And for anyone who wants to laugh their socks off and learn a bit of stats, here's a little music video for your guys. Introducing, “statz 4 life”...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=489221653835413043



Elsie

[Loula]

The link for the stats test flowchart no longer works- does anyone have an alternative?