Oscar Torres-Reyna

Need data?

DSS Selected Resources (by subject and region)
DSS Relevant data sources
GSS
Current Population Survey
World Development Indicators
US Census Bureau: Data Access Tools
Polling the Nations
iPoll Databank
Doing Business (World Bank)
Other links

Need help on statistics?

StatNotes: Topics in Multivariate Analysis
Stats webbook
Survey research methods
Applied Categorical and Nonnormal Data Analysis
Introduction to Research Design and Statistics
Comparing Group Means: The T-test and One-way ANOVA Using STATA, SAS, and SPSS

Need help with software?

Most commonly used statistical packages
Resources to learn and use Stata
Statistical computing
Stata's FAQs
How to process very large datasets in Stata
Dealing with missing values in Stata
Reshaping Datasets (Stata)
Reshaping World Development Indicators (Stata)
Stata: How to Write a Dictionary Program to Read Raw Data
Internet Guide to SPSS for Windows
STATA/SPSS/SAS
The R project for statistical computing
Havard-MIT Data Center tutorials (SPSS, Stata, Zelig, R)

Need to analyze data online?

Berkley SDA Archive
World Values Survey
CPANDA: Arts and Cultural Policy
Roper Center Data Analysis Tool

Need to visualize?

STATA: Graph examples
R graph gallery

GIS stuff

Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center (Princeton University)
Digital Map and Geographic Data (Princeton University)
Spatial Data Resources (Columbia University)
Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Social Explorer
Download GIS data by latitude and longitud

Selected articles on quantitative analysis

Analysis of variance - why it is more important than ever (A. Gelman)
What is a survey?
STATA: The language of choice for time series analysis?
Comparing Group Means: The T-test and One-way ANOVA Using STATA, SAS, and SPSS (pdf version)
The Stata Journal

Politics, media and public opinion

Reflectivepundit: By Brigitte Nacos (blog on media, public opinion and terrorism)
RealClearPolitics

Useful links

Science and Math equations (for LaTeX users)

Statistics Glossary

EquMathematics

Glossary of Selected Social Science Computing Terms and Social Science Data Terms

"Food for the mind"

WebMuseum

CyberSchoolBus

Stop Disasters Game