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Chapter 14

http://www.le.ac.uk/bl/gat/virtualfc/Stats/introst.html
Here is a fantastic web site, defining all the key terms you need to know to be able to conduct a piece of basic quantitative data analysis. It is wrtten by Ted Gaten of University of Leicester’s Department of Biology.  Complete with animated icons, it brings you, step-by-step through the intricacies of statistical analysis.

http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html
This is an online statistics textbook, written and maintained by David Lane at Rice University in Houston, Texas. It provides a step-by-step guide to univariate, bivariate and mutlivariate analysis, talking you through some of the basic texts with worked examples of data analysis. There is also plenty of information about such topics as sample distributions, measure of central tendency and confidence intervals.

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/statdesc.php
This is another section of the 'knowledge base' created by William Trochim at Cornell University. The pages take you through the various descriptive statistics tests and pave the way for inferential statistics, dealing with correlation. Most of the formulae are shown with worked examples.

http://www.graphpad.com/articles/pvalue.htm
As part of the GraphPad statistical software company's online resources, this page presents an extremely useful guide to testing for statistical significance. It is based on the book “Intuitive Biostatistics” by Harvey Motulsky, the President of GraphPad. This site outlines the issue of generalising from a sample to a population and then provides a detailed explanation of what the 'p' value is; the implications of setting it at different levels; and the difference between one-tailed and two-tailed hypotheses.

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/mailinglists/category/Social_Studies.htm
This site forms the basis of an email distribution, or mailing, list. The members of the list are mainly graduate students and teachers in the social sciences they use the website to discuss the various issues involved in their specific areas of interest. If you are struggling with statistics or have a specific query to be ask, this could be a good place to seek advice. You can search the online archives of messages, subscribe and post to the list, or join in the discussion forum.