QSR international: website of the market leading software provider for qualitative data analysis: products include Nud*ist, XSIGHT and NVIVO
SPSS: web site of the market leading product for analysis of quantitative data
SPSS Tutorial – developed by DataStep (originally for a course run at California State University, Sacramento), the free step-by-step tutorial can be downloaded in pdf format, and the accompanying data files by ftp. A statistical selection guide to selecting data analysis models and statistical tests is also available
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics: links to simulations, tutorials, case studies and statistical tools developed by David M. Lane; includes simulations and demonstrations of statistical procedures
X4L – SDiT (Survey Data in Teaching): teaching and learning materials that aim to teach data literacy at A-level and degree level; makes use of data from the British Crime Survey to illustrate how social science data can be extracted from a dataset, and used in research, or applied to real life problem
Statistical tools
Interactive Statistics Pages: list of resources for performing statistical calculations put together by John C. Pezzullo, Associate Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Biostatistics at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.
GeoConvert: geographical translation service: place UK postcodes by geographical location or enumeration district using the postcode look-up directories; hosted by the Census Dissemination Unit.
Access to UK HE researchers is via the UK Federation option; you need to undergo an additional registration step for CDU services
Research Randomizer: this program uses a JavaScript random number generator to perform random sampling or assign participants to experimental conditions
Statistics Calculators: another list of free calculators suitable for many statistical processes
General resources
National Statistics: website for the Government statistical body, National Statistics (formerly Office for National Statistics); provides data, and includes a searchable database of National Statistics products.
UK Data Archive: research resource hosted by the University of Essex; it allows people working in the HE sector to search for raw data from a wide range of important health, social science, and economic surveys
UK National Digital Archive of Datasets: preserves and provides access to computer datasets from UK government departments and agencies; aimed at all those with an interest in records of 20th century government decision making and planning, including researchers, social historians
Health care statistics, communicable disease, and epidemiology
Guides and tools
EBM Toolbox: part of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine site, this page gives you a number of tools and advice for performing statistical calculations, such pre-test probabilities, numbers needed to treat (NNTs), confidence intervals and likelihood ratios
Random Number Generator: use this tool to help you assign participants in your sample to different arms of a trial
Resources
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): US public health and epidemiological centre responsible for preventing the spread of infectious disease, environmental health, and health promotion
CDC Wonder database to search for a wide variety of US reports and numeric public health data
See the data & statistics section of the web site for all the available datasets and statistical products
Weekly Epidemiological Record: distributed weekly by the WHO, it gives the most up-to-date epidemiological figures for infectious and communicable diseases worldwide
WHO Classification: World Health Organisation criteria for disease, disability and health: used for epidemiological reporting processes. Includes:
