Using and applying statistics

Web Links

Links to websites you may find useful for this FSMQ are given below. The addresses and content of websites sometimes change. If you have any problems please contact June Haighton.

Advertising Association
Facts and figures such as spending on TV advertisements, newspaper circulation figures.
http://www.adassoc.org.uk

BBC Weather
5 day forecasts and lots of other information.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather

CIA World factbook
Lots of information on a country by country basis.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Carnegie Mellon University - Data and Story Library
Methods gives datafiles for basic techniques like scatterplots and averages as well as more advanced methods. Topics are given in alphabetical order from Archaeology and Astronomy to Weather and Zoology.
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Statistics
Fastats gives data from America on all sorts of health-related topics. Available in pdf format.
http://www.cdc.gov/scientific.htm

Cricket
Cricket statistics
http://uk.cricinfo.com

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Air Quality, Climate, Energy and other environmental statistics
http://www.defra.gov.uk

Department of Transport, Local Government and Regions
For all sorts of statistics involving aviation, railways, roads and shipping
http://www.dft.gov.uk

Environment Agency
Information and statistics relating to Air Quality, Conservation, Navigation, Waste, Water Quality, etc
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk

Excel Tutorials (Clemson University)
includes useful tutorials on the use of Excel in many areas of mathematics
http://phoenix.phys.clemson.edu/tutorials/excel/index.html

Federation Internationale de Natation
Swimming and diving statistics
http://www.fina.org

Global Statistics
Data for the whole world, continents, countries, cities and districts. Charts gives information about area, cities, population, airports, rivers, mountains and much more in tabular and chart forms.
http://www.xist.org/

Home Office
has information about burglaries, car theft, assaults and other crimes.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk

Ilona Jerabek (Cyberia Shrink)]
Psychometric tests relating to anxiety, assertiveness, extraversion/introversion etc. Summary statistics included.
http://www.queendom.com/psychometrics

International Amateur Athletic Federation
Results followed by Records gives the current records for track and field events. Toplists gives information about best performances (name of athlete, time/distance, windspeed, nationality, date of birth, position, venue, date).
http://www.iaaf.org/

International Ski Federation
Cross country, ski jumping, free-style, snowboarding, etc
http://www.fis-ski.com

Mori Polls
Results of polls and surveys carried out in the UK.
http://www.mori.com

Motor Sport
Results and statistics for Formula 1, rallying, motorcycling etc
http://www.worldmotorsport.com

Numeracy Higher for Advanced Statistics
On-line tutorials and interactive worked problems involving graphs and charts, averages, measures of spread, correlation and regression.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/nq/ics/ofdl/numeracy/higher/menu.htm

Office for National Statistics and UK National Statistics Online
Comprehensive range of official statistics on a national and local scale. Includes data relating to earnings, population, health, leisure, climate and many other topics.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
For statistics relating to fire, housing, local government, etc
http://www.odpm.gov.uk

Penn State University
Datasets – can be used to investigate correlation
http://www.stat.psu.edu/~lsimon/stat501/sp03/data

Peter Larsson's Track and Field all-time Performances
For best athletic performances in a wide range of events.
http://www.algonet.se/~pela2/index.html

Professional Darts Corporation
Darts results and statistics
http://www.planetdarts.co.uk

Royal Statistical Society
Free teaching resources for statistics. Includes real datasets.
http://www.rsscse.org.uk/resources/schools.asp

STEPS Project
Problem-based teaching and learning materials for advanced level statistics (and beyond) produced by seven universities for undergraduate use. Modules are based on topics from Biology, Business, Geography and Psychology - look at the abstracts first to see which ones will be of use to you
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps

School Census
Results of surveys carried out in schools in the UK, South Africa, Queensland and New Zealand. Includes data in spreadsheets and worksheets.
http://www.censusatschool.ntu.ac.uk

The Gallup Organisation
Data from surveys carried out in the UK as well as America.
http://www.gallup.com/

The Met Office
for weather data - temperature, precipitation, windspeed etc.
http://www.met-office.gov.uk

UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
Select a data set and submit a query - gives the answer not the full data set.
http://www.fao.org/waicent/portal/statistics_en.asp

UN Population Division
World Population figures, including projections
http://www.un.org/popin

US Census Bureau
Data from the 2000 Census.
http://www.census.gov

US Universities Chance
Materials designed for introductory probability/statistics courses for undergraduates in US universities. Chance News includes abstracts of articles in newspapers and journals with related questions for class use.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance

United Nations (UN) Development Programme
Human Development Report gives tables of information such as poverty, health and education profiles, population trends and military expenditure for both industrial and developing countries.
http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Statistical Data On-line. Select a topic and country to access data given in lists, tables and charts.
http://www.unece.org/stats/

University of South Carolina
Large collection of Java applets for use with the Normal and other distributions.
http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/applets

Up My Street
Information is given after entering the postcode or name of a town in the form of line graphs and tables about property prices, GCSE and A level results, crime figures, local politics etc. Some results can be compared with the national average or another location.
http://www.upmystreet.com

World Climate
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall Choice of cities.
http://www.worldclimate.com

World Health Organisation
includes the WHO Statistical Information System that allows you to search for information or select from a list. Some data is available on Excel files.
http://www.who.org