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Our Fall 2002 newsletter on the adequacy of Excel as a statistics package has been replaced by the Oct 2009 newsletter below, and our Statistics with Excel? page.
Nondetects in fields outside of environmental science: what it can tell us
Is Excel an Adequate Statistics Package? An update
A comparison of Spearman's and Kendall's correlation coefficients, with reference to an article by G. Noether
Ggobi: Multivariate visualization
The Sign Test modified for data with many ties, as with zero counts or nondetects
Principal Components vs Factor Analysis vs Multiple Regression: How they differ.
Serial Correlation and its effects on environmental stats
Review of lower-cost statistical software. Part 2.
Review of lower-cost statistical software. Part 1.
Logistic Regression - A versatile and useful method
Sample size calculations for nonparametric tests
Permutation Tests - Avoiding restrictive test assumptions
The Cost of Statistical Software
Kaplan-Meier with Excel
Nonmetric MultDimensional Scaling is an extremely useful plot for viewing multidimensional patterns.
Equivalence Tests - application to environmental decisions
The UCL95 with nondetects
Free software: R and NADA for R
Free software -- Dataplot
The quantile test, with regulatory applications
Alternatives to regression, and why to use them
Hypothesis tests for censored data
Testing normality for censored data
Pairing observations, a good experimental design
Aitchison's DLOG method -- its just substitution
Storing nondetects in databases
Insider censoring
Better methods for computing summary stats with nondetects
Scatterplots for censored data
Correlation for censored data
Cohen's method for nondetects -- old technology
Why not substitute 1/2 the detection limit?
An Online Statistics Manual