San José State University · Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department

ME 120 Experimental Methods

Prof. BJ Furman


Statistical Resources

Resources that cover a broad range of statistical methods

·         Introductory Statistics: Concepts, Models, and Applications (http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/introbook/sbk00.htm)

·         The Electronic Statistics Texbook (http://www.statsoftinc.com/textbook/stathome.html)

·         Hyperstat Online Textbook (http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html)

·         NIST/Sematech Engineering Statistics Handbook (http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm)

·         Probability and Statistics – from Mathworld (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/ProbabilityandStatistics.html)

·         Statistical Thinking for Decision Making (http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/Business-stat/opre504.htm)

·         The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice (http://www.tufts.edu/~gdallal/LHSP.HTM)

·         Links from "Do It Yourself Statistics" (Psych 394U at UT Austin) (http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Class/Psy394U/Cormack/DYIStats/links.html)

The Normal Distribution

·         The normal curve (http://www.psychstat.smsu.edu/introbook/sbk11m.htm)

·         The normal distribution (http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras/jsm/NormalDensity/NormalDensity.html)

·         The normal distribution - West Virginia University (http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/index.htm)

Significant Figures and Rounding

·         Significant figures and rounding (http://www.angelfire.com/oh/cmulliss/)

Statistics Software

·         Dataplot (http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/dataplot.htm)

·         Statistical calculations using MS Excel (http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/excel/excel.html)

·         Various calculators (http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras/jsm/example6.html)

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Last updated 12SEP05 by BJ Furman