BIOS601 Resources: Descriptive Statistics
[updated September 22, 2008]
(jh) Lecture Notes
Descriptive Statistics (adapted from notes for epi. students)
Statistical texts
Graphs Figures Tables Miscellaneous
Statistical Methods in NEJM articles |
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Tables 2 and 3
Frequency Distributions and Other tables.. Colton pp
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Words at 2008 USA Democratic and Republican conventions
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Graphic alone
Asbestos Concentrations
Blood lead levels -- N-HANES II
Blood lead levels in children of workers - Dot Diagram -- b
Caffeine half lives - Dot Diagram
Stem and Leaf Display
A Photographic View of Cumulative Distribution Functions
Salaries of professional baseball players
What time does it show right now on your watch?
What numbers do lotto 6/49 players select??
Mean or Median height?
Definition of average (Oxford English Dictionary)
Cartoon
Triazolam_pharmacokinetics
Data about geriatric patients in RVH
Epidurals for childbirth -- in late 1980's
4 distributions with same mean and same SD
Max ann. gauge reading, Roda Gage, Cairo, AD641-AD1946
Chest circumferences of Scottish soldiers (Quetelet/Stigler)
Heights and Chest circumferences of Scottish militia men (Quetelet/Stigler)
Heights of French conscripts (Quetelet, from Stigler)
Heights of conscripts - French and dept. of Doubs (Bertillon, from Stigler)
Year of Publication of biochemistry, epidemiology, and statistics books in McGill library
How Humans Differ from Other Animals in Their Levels of Morphological Variation
Baseball salaries 1994
Z scores (from x to % via Z and Gaussian distribution)
The Normal Table [ M&M Table A ]
Ways to generate numbers from a Gaussian Distribution
Number of authors on medical articles (from Fletcher et al) ...
try to reconstruct the frequency distribution from the mean and the SD
Excel spreadsheet
Articles
A new survey of American men
The Myth, the Math, the Sex - NY Times Aug 12, 2007
The Median, the Math and the Sex - NY Times Aug 19, 2007 ...courtesy AL
Interesting Differences: Comparative Study of Wealth
What statistical methods do Radiology readers need to understand?
Visualizing the Median as the Minimum-Deviation Location
 
Fig 1 [colour]
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java applet
Writing about numbers - Mosteller
Graphical methods in statistical analysis - Moses
Students' Misconceptions in Interpreting Center and Variability of Data Represented via Histograms and Stem-and-leaf Plots
Estimation of the variance of percentile estimates - MB Brown and RA Wolfe
Computer code
Sampling distribution of order statistics [R]
Graphics
Examples of graphs from...
Morbidity&Mortality Weekly Report---CDC
Medical Journals
Stata website
The Economist magazine (scanned images, large files)
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Olympic Hockey - Canada vs. USA, 2010
The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press
Tufte is considered a "must-read" in the field of information graphics.
Gallery of Data Visualization: The Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics
Michael Friendly, York University
PowerPoint Is Evil: Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely. By Edward Tufte
Textbook
Cleveland The elements of graphing data
Graphics
R Graphics by Paul Murrell
History of Statistical Graphics and Data Visualization
Other work by Micael Friendly
Search for R graph gallery