This article discusses a project-based approach to teaching statistics. An appendix contains a list of 20 projects that have been successfully assigned.
This data archive contains data sets divided into the following categories: Astronomy, Biology, Education, Geography, Social Sciences, Sports, Transportation, Weather, and Miscellaneous. The datasets can be viewed as an html page or downloaded into Excel spreadsheets.
This course covers the statistical tools needed to understand empirical economic research and to plan and execute independent research projects. Provided on the site are assignments and a project idea with related materials. Topics include statistical inference, regression, generalized least squares, instrumental variables, simultaneous equations models, and the evaluation of government policies and programs.
This course site contains a complete set of course materials, including lecture notes, assignments and exams. This subject is a computer-oriented introduction to probability and data analysis. It is designed to give students the knowledge and practical experience they need to interpret lab and field data. The MATLAB?? programming language is used to perform virtual experiments and to analyze...
This course features a complete set of lecture notes and problem sets with solutions. The objective of this subject is to understand the nature of manufacturing process variation and the methods for its control.
This site for the Bureau of Economic Analysis contains economic information such as gross domestic product, personal income and outlays, corporate profit, etc. It addresses national, international, regional, and industry level statistics.
These are MIT's epidemiology database pages. Mortality data for the United States from 1890-1997, Japan from 1951-1994, and Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Texas and Florida dating back to the late 1950's are provided.
