Andrew H’s favourite statistics sites

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Introductory guides

· “Quantitative thinking for corpus analysts” by Stefanowitsch

• http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~anatol/qnt/qnt_dist.html
• Includes basic chi-square calculator
  
  
• Stats overviews with instructions for Excel
• http://psychology.georgetown.edu/resources/researchmethods/statistics/8314.html
  
  
• Guide to Bonferroni-Sidak correction
• http://www.utdallas.edu/~herve/Abdi-Bonferroni2007-pretty.pdf
  
  

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Online calculators

· Flexible-table chi-square calculator

• http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/contingency_NROW_NCOLUMN_form.html
  
  
• Log-likelihood calculator for corpus frequencies by Paul Rayson
• http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/llwizard
  
  
• Basic table chi-square calculator that also can do the Fisher exact test
• http://www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs/Contingency1.cfm
• (the same site has calculators for other tests too inc. T-test)
  
  
• Bonferroni-Sidak correction calculator
• http://www.quantitativeskills.com/sisa/calculations/bonfer.htm
  
  

· Index of lots and lots and lots of online calculators

• http://statpages.org/
  
  

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Longer online textbooks / course materials

Most of these are by stats specialists in other fields

· Lowry (psychologist), “Concepts & Applications of Inferential Statistics”

• http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/webtext.html
• Accompanied by software site http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/VassarStats.html
• Covers: principles of stats, chi-square, t-test, ANOVA
• Includes calculator for Fisher Exact as well as chi-square, http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/odds2x2.html
  
  

· Hopkins (sports scientist), “A New View of Statistics”

• http://www.sportsci.org/resource/stats/contents.html
• Covers: principles of stats, factor analysis and cluster analysis, confidence intervals, t-test, ANOVA, correlation, regression
  
  

· McDonald (biologist), “Handbook of biological statistics”

• http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/statintro.html
• Covers: binomial test, chi-square, log-likelihood aka G-test, t-test, ANOVA, correlation, regression
  
  

· Lucy (statistician, but the book is aimed at social scientists)

• http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~lucy/courses/CFAS404/CFAS404.html
• Covers: mathematical notation and basics of algebra / formulae.
  
  
• Garson, “Statnotes”
• http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/statnote.htm
• Covers: almost everything