Statistics

Climate by definition is the statistics of weather. It therefore makes a lot of sense that climate researchers know something about the important subject of statistics. Hopefully, some of the links below might help some people to progress a bit further in this direction:

Some local help

• David B. Stephenson's "Data analysis methods in weather and climate research" course
  
• The RCLIM initiative - Statistical R software for climate analysis
  

Online stats help

• http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/index.html  David M. Lane's HyperStat Online introduction to statistics
• http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html  StatSoft Inc.'s Electronic Statistics Textbook with brief comments on a wide range of topics from basic to advanced, including variance components, neural networks, multidimensional scaling and so on. The emphasis is on techniques rather than concepts or mathematics
• http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/  Steps is a glossary of terms aimed at the non-statistician, and covers most of the things on this course. This might be useful if you are having trouble with any of the basic terms or concepts
• http://www.statistics.com/content/glossary/index.php3 
This is a slightly more advanced site, although it does cover all of the aspects of this course. It is quite comprehensive, although the search function is temperamental - the best way to find what you want is to check the full listing of topics
• http://www.sciencegems.com/math.html  This is actually a link site to many mathematical ans statistical resources. It has a vast number of references to other sites, the statistics pages are classified under probability & statistics.

Some online demos and courses

• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
• Probability by Surprise
• The CHANCE course (including excellent videos of lectures on probability)

Online statistical tests

• Is the correlation between two time series significant ? (two-sided)
• John C. Pezzullo's nice collection of interactive statistics scripts

Official statistics

• Office for National Statistics (UK)
• Eurostat
• United Nations Statistics Division

Other links

• http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/welcome.htm Some more information about the history of statistics.
• Some quotations about forecasting
• Quantitative Assessment of the Environment workshop University of Reading, 30 October 2002
• Environmental Statistics Study Group projects (June 2000)
• http://www.rss.org.uk/ The Royal Statistical Society
• http://www.amstat.org/  American Statistical Association
• http://lib.stat.cmu.edu StatLib index of statistical software and routines
• http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/cti/activities/reviews/alphabet.html  Informative reviews of many different statistical packages
• A forthcoming book on forecast verification (limited access)
• Laboratoire de statistiques et probabilites in Toulouse
• http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/cti/ Good collection of web links to many useful statistics sites
• http://lib.stat.cmu.edu StatLib index of statistical software and routines