Web Resources
About Statistics and Statistical Analysis
- How Stuff Works: Statistics
- Topics include: Averages, mean, mode, and graphs.
- Tables, Graphs and Statistics
- From How Stuff Works.
Statistics Sources
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
- "The BTS mission is to create, manage, and share transportation statistical knowledge with public and private transportation communities and the Nation."
- Business and Company Statistics
- Census Bureau
- Population statistics, business and industry, income, poverty, housing, foreign / international trade, and other statistics. Also try their American FactFinder service for more localized statistics and fact sheets.
- FASTATS A to Z
- The National Center for Health Statistics, a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, collects and analyses health statistics. Ranges from accidents and AIDS to whooping cough and work loss days.
- FedStats
- "With convenient searching and linking capablilties to more than 100 agencies that provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation safety, energy use, farm production and more, FedStats is your one location for access to the full breadth of Federal statistical information."
- World Fact Book
- Published by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and updated bi-weekly. Includes international statistics, country studies, histories of countries and regions, birth and death rates, exchange rates, military expenditures, gross domestic products (GDP), public debt, imports and exports, communications and media (television, radio, Internet), transportation, and much more.
