Math 416 Topics in Mathematical Statistics Spring 2002

Math 461(Stat 461)
Topics in Mathematical Statistics
Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University

Instructor: Professor Wei-Min Huang

Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University

Office: XS236

E-Mail: wh02@lehigh.edu

References: (Books marked with * are on 2-hour reserve in F-M Library)
I. Books

*[Weisberg, S.] Applied Linear Regression. Wiley.
*[Draper, N. & Smith, H.] Applied Regression Analysis. Wiley.
*[Neter, J. & Wasserman W. & Kutner, M.] Applied Linear Regression Models. Irwin.
*[Seber, G.] Linear Regression Analysis. Wiley.
*[Bickel, P. & Doksum, K.] Chapter 6, Mathematical Statistics. Prentice Hall.
*[Myers, R.] Classical & Modern Regression with Applications. PWS-Kent.
*[Rao, C.] Linear Statistical Inference & Its Applications. Wiley.
*[McCullagh, P. and Nelder, J.A.] Generalized Linear Models. Chapman & Hall.
[Berry, D.A. and Lindgren, B.W.] Chapters on Regression & ANOVA. Statistics:Theory & Methods. Duxbury.
[Casella, G. and Berger, R.L.] Chapter 11. Statistical Inference. Duxbury Advanced.
[Cox, D.R. and Oakes, D.] Analysis of Survival Data. Chapman & Hall.

II. Online books & resources

SURFSTAT Australia (an intro-level resource in Statistics).
HyperStat (a resource in statistics with lots of nice additional links).
StatSoft ( Another nice and free Electronic Statistics Textbook with some advanced topics.)
The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice
StatNotes: An Online Textbook
Engineering Statistics Handbook.
SticiGui: Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instructionwith a Graphical User Interface
MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS: CONCEPTS, MODELS, AND APPLICATIONS
A Graduate Level Business Statistics & many related links.
The Data and Story Library (DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafilesand stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. A great site with many interesting real data sets and illustrate the use of basic statistics

methods.) [Stories by Topic ; Stories by Method ; Datafiles by Subject]

Bureau of Economic Analysis (The Bureau of Economic Analysis is an agency of the US Department of Commerce.)
StatLib---Datasets Archive
Time Series Data Library (This is a collection of about 800 time series, drawn from many different fields.)
A CASEBOOK FOR A FIRST COURSE IN STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS. Wiley. By Chatterjee, S. & Handcock, M. & Simonoff, J.S. (a good casebook with many real data sets and interesting statistical analysis) .
U.S. Census Bureau
Short articles on the use of statistics (British Medical Journal: Statistics Notes)
Statistician Jokes
ARCHIVES OF STATISTICS FUN
CAREERS IN STATISTICS
Journal of Statistics Education
Statistical Science Web

Tools:

StaTable for Java (StaTable for Java provides immediate access to the twenty-five most commonly used statistical distributions.)
Electronic Statistics Distribution Tables
SurfStat Probability Distribution Calculator
Statistical glossary (definitions of terms in probability or statistics)
Another Statistical Glossary (definitions of terms in probability or statistics)
Matrix Reference Manual
Hot List for Java Applet
Self-Paced Introductory Mathematics
More Statistics Sites

Tentative course topics: (Some of the topics are linked to some of possible many online sources I listed above but NOT all the related links are set. You should try to browse through other online textbooks listed above for more references. ) New materials and links will constantly be added to this page.

1. Review of Basic Statistical Concepts (reading assignment)