Links
Looking for a Web site on statistics? Here are some sites that the Quality Progress staff and readers found.
www.amstat.org
The American Statistical Association (ASA) promotes statistical practice, education and research, publishes statistical journals and offers this website for statisticians everywhere. Visitors can find, among other things, links, articles, ASA calendars and a PowerPoint presentation on careers in statistics. ASA members have access to additional online articles, a monthly newsletter and discounts on meetings, courses and publications.
www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/
The National Institute of Standards and Technology offers a free Engineering Statistics Handbook. The eight-chapter online handbook is intended to "help scientists and engineers incorporate statistical methods in their work as efficiently as possible." It includes a search function and opportunity for feedback.
www.johnzorich.com
Zorich Technical Consulting and Publishing offers free statistical application software from this portion of its site. All in Excel format, some downloads are partially functioning demos and some are fully functioning freeware. The spreadsheets include tools for variable data statistical process control (SPC), count data SPC, reliability statistics basics, power curves for t-tests, statistical analysis of gages, c = 0 sampling plans, self-made sampling plans and sequential sampling plans.
www.keithbower.com
Free information, including articles on statistical topics, is offered on this commercial website. Topics include statistical quality analysis, basic statistical tools and design and analysis of experiments.
www.statease.com
This commercial site features a group of articles on the use of statistical design of experiments techniques that may be useful to engineers, quality professionals, researchers, scientists and other experimenters.
www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html
The StatSoft textbook serves as a community service to those interested in enhancing their general knowledge of statistics or those needing a fast, easy-to-use resource. The virtual textbook includes illustrations and offers quick, easy and free unlimited access to training in the understanding and application of statistics. The material is developed at the StatSoft R&D department. A search under "quality" on the home page takes you to over 120 documents dealing with the theory of quality as well as charting and statistical issues.
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