Statistical Programming Related Web Links

Two comprehensive (invaluable) online resources pointing to other online resources have been compiled by Michael Friendly (here) and by Clay Helberg (here and here)

BU Groups/Sites
Graduate Student Professional Development

Library Data Services (Bartle Library Reference Department) – manages subscriptions to several CD based databases and access to ICPSR datasets

GIS (Geographical Information Systems, SW Room 205) –

Academic Computing Services – general services offers public computer maintenance (pods), manages most site-wide software licenses

Technology Training Center – (777-6362, (TBD - new location opening June 2006) offers general computing hands-on workshops primarily for faculty and staff

New Media Resource Center – (CC Room 203A) offers assistance with pre-publication preparation of manuscripts including access to software for scanning, chart, table and graph preparation

Help Desk – phone support (777-6420, CC 1st floor) for most day to day general computing needs (connection to network, accounts management, etc.), referrals to other CSET staff for technical problems that need resolution or appointments to solve

Other University Statistical sites
Organizing and providing lists of statistical programming resources (as we do here)
 * UCLA
 * Iowa State University
 * Texas A&M University
 * University of North Carolina
 * Carolina Population Center
 * CMU, Carnegie-Mellon University Stat/Lib
 * Cornell University and here
 * Columbia University
 * Indiana University
 * University of Southern California

Other Helpful sites include
Software Vendor links are listed under Software Tools See also Documentation, Data related links (below) and Data Holdings & Services. StatTransfer's List of listservs Online Electronic Statistics Textbook (StatSoft) Other online text books exist and one may soon be available at wikipedia.org (as a wikibook) Numerical Recipes

An Introduction to Probablility Book - free (GFDL) (in pdf format)

Data related sites
BU Economics Department's - Economic (online) Data Sources Resources for Economists on the Internet (Dr Bill Goffe (SUNY Oswego) editor) Economagic, Economic Time Series

For information related to Data vendors and institutional data repositories (such as COMPUSTAT, CRSP, ICPSR) see Data Holdings & Services

(for instruction) the Data and Story Library at CMU

CMU's List of Statistics Departments (formerly at Florida State University) or here

Dartmouth's Chance