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! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing: Paleobiology: A Synthesis (PDF files). Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world. Navigate from the content file. Excellent! Go to: Infrastructure of Palaeobiology.
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University: StatLib. This is a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW.
! Mike Conlon, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville: The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics.
Alan Dix, meandeviation.com: Statistics Tutorial.
Grégoire Dubois, Environment Institute TP 321, Environmental Monitoring Unit, Ispra (Va), Italy: AI-GEOSTATS. AI-GEOSTATS is mainly a mailing list which acts as a forum for the dissemination and discussion of all aspects of spatial statistics. Gives information about available software & shareware commonly used in spatial statistics.
Valerie Easton and John McColl, Centre for Applied Statistics, Fylde College, Lancaster University: Statistics Glossary.
Brian J. Enquist et al. (2002): General patterns of taxonomic and biomass partitioning in extant and fossil plant communities. PDF file, Nature.
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Michael Friendly,
Statistical Consulting Service and Psychology Department
York University. Useful things about statistical graphics, graphical methods for categorical data
(mosaic displays, fourfold displays), visual statistics, etc.
See especially:
Statistics and Statistical Graphics Resources.
GEOSTATISTICS. GEOSTATISTICS is an interdisciplinary newsletter published quarterly by the North American Council on Geostatistics.
W.A. Green, Palaeontologia Electronica Volume 9, Issue 2 (2006): Loosening the CLAMP: An Exploratory Graphical Approach to the Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program.
! Øyvind Hammer, Paleontological Museum, University of Oslo: PAST. PAST is a free, easy-to-use data analysis package aimed at paleontology. Inspired by PALSTAT, it includes common statistical, plotting and modelling functions, e.g. a spreadsheet-type data entry form, graph, scatter, histogram, ternary and survivorship plots, etc.
Clay Helberg, Chicago: Statistics on the Web. A list of statistics resources discovered on the World Wide Web.
Phillip Ingram, Macquarie University, Sydney: Statistical Procedures. Connections to descriptions of various statistical procedures applicable to the Earth Sciences.
The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (supported by Athabasca University): Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research, Free Statistical Software.
! Kovach Computing Services: Other statistical sites. A variety of Internet resources dealing with statistics and data analysis.
Michal Kowalewski, Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA: Quantitative Paleobiology. Lecture notes about analysis based on quantitative data either derived from the fossil record, or any numerical model designed to explore paleontological or geobiological issues.
Richard Lowry, Department of Psychology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY: VassarStats. Website for Statistical Computation. Software for calculating probability, linear correlation and regression, chi-square, t-procedures, ANOVA, and more.
! Norman MacLeod, Natural History Museum, London: PalaeoMath. Aspects of quantitative analysis in paleontological contexts. Each essay (from the Palaeontological Association Newsletter since 2004) is written for the novice data analyst, especially those who always wanted to gain knowledge of this subject, but never had the opportunity to do so and haven´t managed to make much progress through self-education. Including some MS Excel spreadsheets providing examples and data.
The Open Source Paleontologist (Blog): Statistics Software. An annotated link directory.
Joseph F. Pachut, Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis: Links to Statistical Resources.
! The Palaeontological Association: Online analytical resources for palaeobiology. A annotated link list.
Allan Palmer, Division of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Queensland, Australia: Introductory guide to statistics.
John C. Pezzullo, Departments of Pharmacology and Biostatistics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC: Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations. More than 550 links.
Peter D. Roopnarine et al. (2007): Trophic network models explain instability of Early Triassic terrestrial communities. PDF file, Proc. R. Soc. B, 274: 2077-2086. See also here.
! The R Project for Statistical Computing. R (a GNU project, free of charge) is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, ...) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible.
Robert A. Spicer, The Warm Earth Environmental Systems Research Group: Plant Fossils as Climatic Indicators. Go to: Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Programe (CLAMP). An introduction to the use of leaf architecture for determining past climatic conditions.
! StatSoft, Inc., Tulsa, OK: Electronic Statistics Textbook. This textbook offers training in the understanding and application of statistics (including a glossary of statistical terms and a list of references).
Frank Tapson, Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, University of Exeter: A Dictionary of Units. This website provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a "standard" unit.
TexaSoft: Winks. Winks makes statistical data analysis understandable and easy to perform. Available for Windows 3.1, 95, 98 and NT.
! The Statistical Consulting Service (SCS), York University, Toronto: General statistical resources.
! The World Wide Web Virtual Library (The University of Florida´s Department of Statistics): Statistics.
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