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Official Statistics

A nice example of Simpson's paradox (although the trend is not actually reversed).

Could Facebook cause cancer?

A good example of how not to use statistics.

xkcd on statistics: correlation and causation, significance, null hypothesis.

 

Stats Sites

Bad Science

Enjoyable blog about misunderstanding science, often with a statistical element.

Gapminder.org

Great use of graphics concerning global issues.

More Or Less

BBC Radio programme about Statistics in everyday life.

Name Voyager

Shows popularity of US baby names. Clever graphics.

 

Discussions

Statistical Pragmatism (see also here for links to discussion and rejoinder)

A pragmatic 'philosphy' to bridge the supposed frequentist vs Bayesian divide (by Rob Kass).

Minard's Graphic

Discussion of Minard's classic graphic of Napoleon's Invasion of Russia.

 

Software

R Project for Statistical Computing

Excellent scripting software for doing real statistics

OpenBUGS

Site with information on using BUGS for Bayesian inference. (get WinBUGS here)

LaTeX

MiKTeX and an editor such as TeXnicCenter can be combined to use LaTeX in a Windows environment.

SINGULAR

Software for automatic algebraic computations.