Library Guides: Health Statistics & Data: Using Statistics

Statistical Reference Works

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences
Covers all areas of statistics. Regularly updated with revisions and new articles.

Covers all areas of statistics including probability theory, biostatistics, quality control, and applications of statistical methods. Includes the full text of the second print edition, the entire original edition, plus supplements and updates. Regularly updated with new articles and revisions to previously published articles.

Choosing The Correct Statistical Test In SAS, Stata, SPSS And R
General guidelines for choosing a statistical analysis based on the number of dependent variables, the nature of your independent variables, and whether the dependent variable is an interval variable, ordinal or categorical variable, and whether it is normally distributed. From UCLA's Institute for Digital Research and Education.
Health DATAbytes
From the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. The Health DATA (Data. Advocacy. Training. Assistance.) Program exists to make data easy and understandable to a wide range of health advocates through trainings, workshops and technical assistance.
Quickcalcs
Dozens of free online calculators for assigning random numbers, detecting outliers, t tests, ANOVA post tests, and much more.
Statistical Computing
This site, also from UCLA, serves as a gateway to resources on R, STATA, SPSS, and SAS, including textbook examples, data analysis, and help/FAQs.
Statistical Computing Seminars
This site provides online seminars, produced by UCLA Academic Technology Services. It is designed to improve your skills in statistical computing packages and statistical techniques. Topics covered include: Stata, R, SAS, SPSS, Mplus and Latent Variable Analysis, and more.
ArticleTables.com
Extract tables from PubMed articles and export to XML file and Excel spreadsheet to mine and/or manipulate the data in these research article tables.

D-Lab
D-Lab offers trainings, consulting, working groups, and more. Topics include R, Python, Qualitative Methods, Stata, etc.
Geospatial Innovation Facility
GIF offers workshops, office hours, online trainings, geospatial data, networking and funding opportunities, and more. They also facilitate free UCB access to ArcGIS.
Library Data Lab
Data Lab offers consultations research involving numeric data, including finding data sources and advising on technical data issues such as file format conversion and web scraping. The Data Lab also provides assistance with Research Data Management & the Data Acquisition and Access Program (funding for data).

Lynda
Online learning platform with videos and courses covering software, technology, business and creative skills. Includes courses on Adobe and Microsoft tools, and other web, audio, video, IT, and education topics.
Go to the organization sign-in page, enter www.berkeley.edu and login with your CalNet credentials from on or off campus.
Search for statistical topics of interest: Excel, SPSS, R, Tableau, etc.

Statistical Consulting (Dept. of Statistics)
The Department of Statistics operates a free consulting service for members of the campus community. Advanced graduate students, under faculty supervision, consult by appointment in the fall and spring semesters. We do not run the consulting service during the summer.