Statistics

The BORDERLINE by Gabe Martin

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -- T.S. Eliot

Core Links Quant Systems a division of Hawkes Publishing Directions for Purchasing Adventure Learning Systems How to buy the Quant Systems Software from Northern Illinois University Available on Yahoo stores Here is where to buy the software Free Online Graph Paper from incompetech dot com Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics made with a Macintosh, but still delicious Audio Links The Economy The Marketplace Report: Nobel Economics Prize Day to Day, October 8, 2003 The State of the Union The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 1/28/2000 "Bill Clinton's last and longest State of the Union speech seemed to go on forever, which was the spirit of the evening that he must have wanted." Where the Jobs Are On Point Monday, May 03, 2004 "But the job market still has not caught up to the rest of the economy, and for many college seniors the opportunities are hard to find." Defining Poverty Talk of the Nation, NPR, September 30, 2003 Marketplace Report: A $23K Bachelor's Advantage Day to Day, NPR, October 26, 2006 Demographics American Population Edges Toward 300 Million Talk of the Nation, October 13, 2006 "The Census Bureau estimates that U.S. population will hit 300 million next Tuesday." Science Suspect Statistics Science Friday, June 8, 2001: "Science Friday making science radioactive..." "Numbers" advisory This American Life, 1/2/98: Episode 88 This is to alert stations about content in today's feed of This American Life, "Numbers." Numbers This American Life, 1/2/98: Episode 88 Numbers lie. Numbers cover over complicated feelings and ambiguous situations. Traffic Stats: A Resource for Motorists Weekend Edition Sunday, January 21, 2007 "a new research project, makes it possible to go online and figure out the risks involved in getting behind the wheel of a car." Traffic Stats AAA and Carnegie Mellon University Joint Venture site discussed in the link above Health The Placebo Effect The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 1/10/2000 "Medical research shows a spoonful of sugar not only helps the medicine go down, it may be all the medicine you need." Treating Heart Disease Talk of the Nation, December 6, 2006 "News that Pfizer pulled its promising new cholesterol drug came as a disappointment to millions of Americans at risk for heart disease." As They Lay Dying. The Connection, 1/27/2003 "It's hard to put a face on global health. This is partly because the numbers are numbers too big to imagine: like 8.8 million lives that were lost last year due to preventable diseases, infections, and complications from childbirth." Drunken Girlhood Here and Now, Friday, May 26, 2006 "According to recent studies, 13 is the median age girls begin drinking and 40 percent of women in college binge drink." STDs, Adolescents and the Politics of Abstinence On Point Tuesday, July 09, 2002 "In the 1980s the issue was teen pregnancy. Today, it's sexually transmitted diseases. The Centers for Disease Control released a startling report, "Tracking the Hidden Epidemics." Up to 20% of teens will have herpes by the time they reach adulthood, the report said. Up to 46% of young women will have contracted the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), and HPV causes almost all cervical cancer." Study: Decreased Breast Cancer Rate Here and Now, Friday, December 15, 2006 "According to the report there was a seven percent decrease in the incidence of breast cancer in women of all ages." Prostate Cancer and Tumors Here and Now, Thursday, May 27, 2004 Scroll down and listen to "Researchers say that many men who are told they do not have prostate cancer based on results of a commonly used blood test may have tumors." Debate Follows Study on Prostate Cancer Treatment NPR National Public Radio, News & Notes, December 18, 2006 "A new national study finds that..." Study: Testosterone Supplements Can Be Safe NPR National Public Radio, All Things Considered, November 14, 2006 "...could increase the risks of prostate cancer." Beer: The New Health Drink? NPR National Public Radio, Morning Edition, June 12, 2006 "Researchers at Oregon State University say a key ingredient in beer helps prevent prostate enlargement and cancer." In Barbecue Season, What Are the Risks? NPR National Public Radio, All Things Considered, April 6, 2006 "People are starting to think about firing up their backyard grills..." Cancer Death Rates Drop NPR National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation, February 9, 2006 "...examines a statistical milestone in the fight against cancer..." Crime Murder by Numbers The Connection, 9/5/2003 "Conditions seem ripe for higher crime: unemployment is up, social services are being cut, the economy is sagging, and large numbers of ex-convicts are back on the streets." Urban Crime Statistics On Point Monday, February 20, 2006 "While violent crime has been at historic lows in cities like New York, Miami and Los Angeles, it's rising sharply elsewhere. Homicides jumped almost 50% in Milwaukee last year; 24% in Houston; Philadelphia had its deadliest year since 1997. And in Boston "once a crime-fighting Mecca known for the Boston Miracle, homicides hit a ten-year high." Boston Murder Rate Jumps WBUR Public Radio, Toni Randolph, (2001-12-18) High Crime in Boston in 2004 -- A Look Ahead to 2005 WBUR Public Radio, Athena Desai, (2004-12-30) Terrorist Report Here and Now, Monday, June 14, 2004 "Secretary of State Colin Powell is meeting with CIA officials today to find out why a recent State Department report cited a decrease in terrorism, when the opposite is true." College Students React to the War on Terror Special Coverage, 11.28.2001 "...the statistics gathered by researchers from Harvard University, who took the pulse of college campuses..." link to report: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/pdfs/survey/2001.pdf Statistics Used to Nab Robbery Suspect All Things Considered, NPR, March 30, 2004 Sports Rich vs. Poor and the MLB Pennant Race Day to Day, NPR, October 4, 2006 "It used to be easy to predict the winner between rich and poor Major League Baseball teams -- the teams that could afford the best players usually came out on top..." The Numbers Game Only A Game, Date: 10/2/2004 "Many years before Bill James or Billy Beane drew a breath, Damon Runyon, writing for The New York American, railed against the description of baseball via mere statistics..." The Numbers Game Only A Game, Saturday, July 06, 2002 Scroll down to "SABR Geeks" and hear about the Society for American Baseball Research The Super Bowl of Advertising Only A Game, 1/31/2004 "(about 7 minutes into the program)...The only concern is whether people laugh when they see the commercial, whether they talk about it the next day at work, and, of course, whether it results in increased market share." Sociology The Marriage Problem: Has Our Culture Weakened Families? On Point Thursday, March 28, 2002 "Once a reliable thread that held American society together, the institution of marriage is falling apart, argues sociologist James Q. Wilson. And the results, he says, are devastating." Correlation or Causation? Statistics Edward Tufte, Offering 'Beautiful Evidence' Weekend Edition Sunday, Health & Science, NPR, August 20, 2006 "...Since 1993, thousands have attended his day-long seminars on Information Design. That might sound like a dry subject, but with Tufte, information becomes art. ..." Anita Roddick's Book of 'Numbers' Weekend Edition - Saturday, NPR, November 13, 2004 "...shares all sorts of interesting statistics." Researchers Contrast Statistics with Intuition All Things Considered, NPR, January 5, 2004 Arguing With Statistics Talk of the Nation, NPR, June 8, 2001 Gender The War Against Boys The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 6/16/2000 "...Comparative statistics show it's boys lagging behind girls in reading and writing...." Ordinary Girls Leading Extraordinary Lives The Connection, Show Originally Aired: 1/25/2001 "...all sorts of ordinary girls doing extraordinary things..." PowerPoint Educators Question PowerPoint Usage Morning Edition, October 16, 2003 content free? Stories behind the Statistics Boston at the crossroads WBUR Public Radio, a series of progams in 2006 Inequality in America On Point, a series of progams in 2006 News Links Death data 'cuts risky surgery' BBC News UK Edition Health, Friday, 14 January, 2005 Police frustrated by timewasters BBC News UK Edition, Thursday, 13 January, 2005 Downloads overtake single sales BBC News UK Edition Entertainment, Friday, 7 January, 2005 Sharks attacks terrorise Brazil BBC News World Americas, Monday, 27 December, 2004 Data Links WBUR.ORG New Bostonians Statistics Examples of Histograms What Color Eyes Would Your Children Have? from "the tech" Statistical Abstract of the United States From the U.S. Census bureau. State of Massachusetts Census Data The population of Massachusetts on April 1, 2000 was 6,349,097. [PDF 2M] Census 2000 Webpage American FactFinder is your source for population, housing, economic and geographic data from Census 2000, the 1990 Census, the 1997 Economic Census, the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey, and the American Community Survey Babe Ruth Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com Babe Ruth batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards he has won and his rank on various season and career statistical leaderboards. Also Career Statistics. National Bureau of Economic Research Files with authors or sources listed to the right of the link are available from the NBER or are otherwise associated with the NBER research program. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Revenue Divison of Local Services Municipal Data Bank Technical Assistance Bureau Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Revenue Divison of Local Services Municipal Data Bank Technical Assistance Bureau Municipal Spreadsheets Export-related Jobs U.S. Department of Commerce Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania infoplease.com Latitude and Longitude of U.S. and Canadian Cities Bureau of Health Statistics, Research and Evaluation, (BHSRE) monitors the health status of Massachusetts residents through collecting information on births, deaths, newly diagnosed cases of cancer, occupational conditions and illnesses, and health behaviors. Economagic: Economic Time Series Page The best economic data site with over 100,000 series. Users have the ability to make their own custom charts, XY plots, regressions, and get data in excel files, or in copy & paste format for dumping to other computer programs NationMaster.com Where Stats Come Alive! Poetic Links Steamboat Bill excerpt from Legends from Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg Statistics from War Poems (1914-1915) by Carl Sandburg Statistics from a student at Berkeley, Elizabeth Sterling W. The Magic of Statistics Keith Sullivan A Word on Statistics Wislawa Szymborska (Translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak) Student's t author unknown Samples and Inference Rob Gregory Them Number-Summers A Rap by John Konopak Untitled Bob Gaddis who should apologize to Joyce Kilmer A Central Tendency author unknown On Statistical Terminology Cory Lation* Games Links Coin Flip a Java Script application where you flip a coin Dice Roll a Java Script application where may roll one die or a few dice with a variety sides Black Jack a Java Script application where you play Black Jack Crab Race a Java Script application where you bet on a Crab Five Dice a Java Script application where you roll the dice Poker a Java Script application where you play 5 card poker Rock Paper Scissors a Java Script application where you play against the computer A game of chance a Java Script application where you take your chances Applets and Scripts Links Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability Learner.org © 1997-2004 Annenberg/CPB. All rights reserved. You can register and view the material. Video and exercises are included. StatSoft Electronic Textbook © Copyright StatSoft, Inc., 1984-2003 BBC Education A Guru for Statistics Covers: Data Collection Discrete Random Variables Continuous Random Variables Rectangular Distribution Normal Distribution Sampling and Estimation