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• Excel High School offers accredited High School Online programs for students nationwide.
• OpenCampus -- is one of the largest resource library for professional certifications courses. It offers free access to wide range of course materials like PMP, Six Sigma, Big Data and more. The free resources also contain flashcards, toolkits and practice questions.
• Top Online MBA Programs with no GMAT Requirement
• fabmarks -- offers access to structured courses on SAT, ACT, and PSAT preparation for free. The free resources also contain practice questions, simulated full-length tests, and test analytics.
• Discover Data Science -- has compiled a thorough listing of data science programs offered at the bachelor’s, masters, certificate, and Ph.D. level. Listings for each of these degree options can be found here.
• Top Nursing Schools and Career
• New FAFSA resource from Nitro -- A step-by-step guide on how to fill out the FAFSA, question by question.
• An extensive digital library of learning resources for pharmacy professionals.
• Guide to Online Schools -- Specifically tailored for graduate students, to provide answers to their online education questions. Has distinct sections on choosing a school, financial aid options, the application and planning process, an article comparing Master's and PhD programs, and test preparation advice.
• Affordable Colleges Online -- provides free higher education tools and information for current and future college students and their families. Focusing mainly on the not-for-profit programs, this site provides guidebooks for veterans, students with disabilities, Hispanic students, and other college hopefuls; an in-depth financial aid section with articles, guides, expert Q&As, and walkthroughs of key processes and forms; an expert-driven, 20-page guide to online learning success; and a directory of introductory Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from top universities. The web site contains a Graduate Degree Guidebook to Online Masters Programs that discusses online master's degrees and program options, and includes helpful information regarding accreditation, time expectations and deadlines, and other frequently asked questions.
• College Affordability Guide -- a web site to help prospective undergrad and graduate students find affordable, not-for-profit universities. Based on an analysis of over 5,000 colleges and universities in the US, this site helps find the ones that offer both financial accessibility (the lowest costs for low and middle income students, as well as flexibility in learning & credit), and positive outcomes. It focuses on graduation/transfer rates and loan default rates, with the idea that completing one's studies, and being able to pay back one's loans, together form a reasonable baseline for a worthwhile college experience. Ths site contains a full description of the methodology used.
• Guidebook to online degrees -- part of the Affordable Colleges Online web site. Lets you search online degrees & programs from top non-profit colleges and universities.
• Online Guide to MBA and Graduate Programs, on the Discover Business web site. Helps prospective students make more informed decisions when selecting a graduate program. Contains a list of Accredited MBA Programs, a curated list of 200+ MBA and Graduate Scholarships, and how-to guides for studying for the GMAT and GRE, and how to pay for graduate school.
• Online MBA Programs -- part of the Affordable Colleges Online web site. MBA career guide tailored to the needs of current and future MBA students. The guide includes several key sections, including industry resources, career path outlines, supplemental free online courses, an MBA specialization matrix, and moreThe developers of this page worked with two career counselors and an MBA student to create this content with the intention of providing actionable, relevant, and timely information. Affordable Online Colleges in America: Rankings & Report -- Edudemic's web site provides information about the most affordable colleges online today. 180 online colleges are ranked on student value, price, and reputation, to determine objectively how far a dollar takes you at each one. These colleges had the best balance of low tuition and stellar performance metrics.
• Go Grad's Guide to Online Master's Degrees -- a comprehensive resource for current and prospective grad students. Includes an in-depth look at the growth of distance education courses at the graduate level, scholarship and financial aid information for students pursuing a graduate education, and job growth outlook and ROI for students pursuing a master's degree.
• Universities.com -- an online college prep resource providing university rankings, tuition costs and in depth information on more than 8,000 colleges and universities.
• Online Degree Programs Context -- helps you deciding on an online bachelor's degree or master's degree.
• Guide to College Internships -- a student's guide to skillfully locating, bargaining and accepting Internships.  Part of the DegreeJungle.com web site, which also contains several other guides, lists of colleges and online degrees, and several rankings of colleges by net price, selectivity, and graduation rates.
•  ID Hunter -- a comprehensive listing of online graduate certificates in instructional design, online teaching, e-learning, and related fields, along with info on credit hours required, costs, application requirements, and related Master's programs. The website is free to use and requires no registration.
• Masters Degree Online – Student Information Website -- An informational website for people who are considering getting a Master's through an online program. Describes the benefits of getting an online Master's, program accreditation issues, tips for pursuing an online degree, information about 25 specific subjects, and links to other resources.
• Best Value Schools Guide to the best online colleges.
• How to Choose Your Online Master's in Counseling Program
• RN (Registered Nurse) To BSN Programs
• Coursera Online Courses From Top Universities It's free and absolutely excellent!
  Provides universal access to the world’s best education, partnering with top universities and organizations to offer courses online.
  Available for iPad Apps, Android Apps and on Google Play. You'll need to sign in.
• Online Graduate Programs -- A web site with a wide variety of resources for anyone attending, or thinking about attending, graduate school.  Contains info about how to get into grad school, graduate studies overseas, how to get a research position, scholarship and grant resources, should you attend?, life in grad school, online programs, Masters / Doctorates / MBAs, and much more!
• Online University -- A site with a wide variety of academic-based articles that take an insightful approach, igniting the educational curiosity in us all.  Not specifically a statistics site, but well worth looking at nonetheless!
• HealthCareSpanish -- a web site to help you learn common phrases and medical terms in Spanish.
• Courses in Writing and Communication, from the Australian College of Journalism (part of Open Colleges). Provides specialised writing, editing and media-related training to help aspiring authors, editors and journalists polish their skills and acquire the commercial savvy needed to succeed.
• Two websites by Jeremy Taylor, dedicated to helping graduate students and professionals with their statistical analysis or problems.
  • StatsMakeMeCry is a place to share ideas and find answers to your statistical questions. It is intended for information sharing, and focuses on free content, such as blogs, video tutorials...etc.
  • VaryYourStats is a collection of Youtube channels on statistics topics.

Links to other statistics-related web sites...

• 2 links on basic programming from Tom Coner, AI Horizon
  • A Beginner's Guide to Programming Languages
  • Computer Science Basics: Coding
• Excel Tips For the Data Analysts
• Excel crash-course for finance Some free but mostly payed courses.
• The Thomeer Excel spreadsheet (updated Feb. 2019) -- a highly developed piece of spreadsheet software that implements the complete formalism of Bert Thomeer, Ben Swanson, Ed Clerke and Jan Buiting for the type curve matching analysis of Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure data obtained upon porous geological materials. The original version was developed by Dr Ed Clerke and Mr. Paul Martin. Continuously developed for over 16 years and used for thousands of geological samples in the oil and gas industry, the latest version now includes a data editing capability with discussion material. For more background, see the reference papers by J. H. M Thomeer; B. Swanson,; E. A. Clerke; and J. J. M. Buiting in the petroleum industry literature.
• Free neuro imaging software from Dr. Chris Rorden's Neuropsychology Lab at University of South Carolina. -- Twenty one programs devoted to brain imaging and physiology of the brain.
• HTML Periodical Table -- Easy access for help on HTML tags
• HTML for Beginners -- A nice introduction to HTML, describing the concept of markup tags, preparing an HTML document, using meta-tags, basic formatting, hyperlinks and anchors, images, forms and tables. It also contains links to other HTML resources. Thanks to the young web designers at the W. B. Goodwin Community Center for suggesting this resource!
• A beginners guide to computer programming and web development. This site has sources about HTML & CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, more advanced topic on PHP, Python, Ruby and C/C++.
• Data Shaping Solutions -- Data Mining Job Board / Data Mining Meta Directory / Analytic Job Board. Specializing in Business Intelligence, Statistics, Analytics, Data Management, Data Mining, Data Analysis, SAS Programming, CRM, Artificial Intelligence, Web Mining, Six Sigma, Operations Research, Risk Management, Database Marketing and Quant. Also offers a wide array of expertise in design of experiments, time series, predictive modeling, survey analysis, customer profiling, pattern recognition, statistical testing, data mining across several industries (including Finance, Internet, Marketing and Litigation), programming languages (such as SAS, Java, C, C#, Perl, Splus/R and SQL), and internet solutions such as black box trading.
• Statistics Internet Library -- a useful page, especially for students and others who are learning statistics. It has links to free net-based stats textbooks, illustrated instructions for doing statistics with Excel, practice questions and problems for statistics tests, overview charts, resources for learning statistics and writing research papers, links to other statistics-related web sites, and links to other "Internet Libraries" (Economics, Excel, Mathematics, Small Business, etc.).
• PublicPractice -- an Australian site providing census-related products and services. Products include Portraits, Populator, Community Projector, Community Analyst, Community Explorer, Age Profiler, Census data, and Population Sketches. Services include presentations and seminars, needs analyses, social planning, and process management. The web site also offers technical support, current (Australian) populations, and links to other useful web sites.
• Dr. Hossein Arsham's Remarkable Web Site (University of Baltimore) -- A very large and very impressive collection of online courses, tutorials, and related resources for a wide variety of subjects related to:
  • Statistical Data Analysis for Managerial Decisions, with Excel For Introductory Statistical Analysis
  • Business Statistics for Managerial Decision Making, with Excel for Business Statistics
  • Science of Making Good Strategic Decisions, with Success Science, Leadership Decision Making, Tools for Decision Analysis, Time-Critical Decision Making for Economics and Finance, Zero-Sum Games with Applications, Decision Science Resources, A Collection of Keywords and Phrases
  • Goal-seeking and Optimal Strategic Modeling and Solution Algorithms, with Linear Programming (LP) and Goal-Seeking Strategy, Integer Optimization and the Network Models, Artificial-variable Free LP Solution Algorithms, Tools for LP Modeling Validation, The Classical Simplex Method, Linear Algebra and LP Connections, From Linear to Nonlinear Optimization: The Missing Chapter, Construction of the Sensitivity Region for LP Models, Optimization with Sensitivity Analysis Resources
  • Modeling and Simulation for Systems Analysis, Design and Control, with System Simulation, , Modeling and Simulation Resources
  • Statistical Concepts and Tools for Data Analysis, with Questionnaire Design and Surveys Sampling, Topics in Statistical Data Analysis, Computational Statistics, Probability and Statistics Resources
  • Online Courses: Business Statistics, Decision Science/Management Science/Operations Research.
  • Zero Sagas in Four Dimensions
  • The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) maintains a web site that's an incredible treasure-trove of information on every imaginable topic related to simulation. Every paper and tutorial presented at the past four Winter Simulation Conferences is available for downloading as full-text Adobe PDF files, which can be viewed with the freely-available Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Areavibes has livability information for thousands of US cities, with information like cost of living, crime rate, demographics, etc.
• Foto Search Image Library -- 1,300,000 keyword-searchable images, including Art, photography, clipart, illustrations, footage, and maps you can view free of charge. It is the digital, online equivalent of a conventional art museum. Browsing through the world-class photography and art library is free, and there are no access charges, registration requirements, or usage limits.
• CanStockPhoto extensive collection of royalty-free stock photography, clip-art, and video footage.
• Techenomics -- Lubricating oil sample analysis and testing, temperature, vibration and condition monitoring by Techenomics International
• StatisticsSolutions - a company specializing in statistical consulting and analysis services for graduate students working on their dissertations. Their web site also provides a collection of statistics-related tips, tutorials and other resources.
• SPSS dedicated web site -- includes more than 350 free sample syntax, macros and scripts classified by purpose, as well as Tips, FAQs, tutorials and a Newbie's Corner.
• Conventions for the Graphical Display of Data -- a nice review of some of the do's and don'ts when making graphs. This is part of NMSU's Cooperative Extension Service, a collection of background material, which is part of a larger collection of how-to's and circulars. It cover such topics as gardening, health, clothing and sewing, family resource management, and livestock and range management. resources for technical and professional communicators.
• An excellent set of online slide shows and handouts from a tutorial session given in Oct, 2000 Marianne W. Zawitz, Bureau of Justice Statistics at the Washington Statistical Society.  Includes:
  • Online slide presentation: Data Presentation: A Guide To Good Graphics
    • Adobe PDF handout: Good Graphics: Simplicity of Design and Complexity of Data
  • Online slide presentation: Data Presentation: A Guide To Good Tables
    • Adobe PDF handout: Good Tables: Numbers Have Architecture
    BTW, do check out the Washington Statistical Society Seminars. It's worth it.
• Free Resources for Program Evaluation and Social Research Methods -- "How-to" do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web. A few, like the GAO books, are for books that can be sent away for, for free (if you live in the US), as well as read over the web.
• MathTools -- a technical computing portal for all scientific and engineering needs, provided as a free service to the scientific community and contains useful links for technical computing programmers. Contains sections for MATLAB, Excel, Scientific C/C++, Scientific Fortran, Scientific Java, Visual Basic, Applications & Industries, and Learning & Education.
  This directory exists, but is no longer maintained!
• Finding Data on the Internet -- a page of links to other pages that link to online databases related to: agriculture, aviation, crime, demographics, education, energy, finding people, health, immigration, investing, law, military, non-profits, politics, weather, and more.
• Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics (Java)
• StatPak -- A Statistical Package. Get the Window version (only) here.
• Software: Tools for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery -- links to software packages (some free, some commercial; various hardware/software platforms) for performing mining/sifting/discovering analyses.
  Tool Types:
  • Suites - tools handling multiple discovery tasks
  • Classification - predicting an item class based on historical data
  • Method: Multiple | Decision tree | Rules | Neural network | Rough sets | Genetic | Nearest Neighbour | Fuzzy
  • Estimation and Regression - estimating a continuous value
  • Clustering - finding groups of related items
  • Link Analysis - finding links or dependencies
  • Associations and Market-Basket Analysis
  • Sequential Patterns
  • Visualization
  • Statistics
  • Text Mining
  • Web Mining
  • Deviation Detection
  • Summarization
  • Data Cleaning and Transformation
  • Dimensional Analysis
• Library of Mathematical Models of Biological Systems -- provides access to working versions of published models
• The Chance Database, containing materials designed help teach a Chance course or a more standard introductory probability or statistics course
• The early history of statistics -- a collection of seminal papers by Bayes, Pascal, Laplace, Legendre, and others. (Most documents and graphics are in Unix formats -- LaTeX, PostScript, gz -- rather than the common formats understood by most browsers.)
• Martindale's Reference Desk -  Calculators On-Line - Statistics (the grand-daddy of all compendia of calculating web pages)
• Mathematics Archives - Interactive WWW Pages
• Links to mathematical Java applets (including statistics) -- an incredibly comprehensive collection! Much of the page is in Finnish, but you can still identify the useful links.
• FedStats -- a master page maintained by Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by more than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government.
• An incredibly comprehensive database of information on UFO sightings (if you're into that sort of thing), with impressive graphical output and the ability to query for specific information.
• The Hunger Site -- An unusual site, not statistics-related, in which sponsors make donations to humanitarian organizations whenever someone looks at their banner ads.
• First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes -- enjoy, and contribute some of your own!