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ProGamma is a distributor of scientific and related software, both full commercial packages and specialist academic tools.
The Statistics section of the LTSN Maths, Statistics & OR Network has a good list of Statistical Resources available on the web, including a list of Statistical Software. It is aimed particularly at teaching software, and does not include all the commercial packages. They also have independent reviews of many packages.
The Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association has encouraged the development of a summary of available software for the analysis of surveys with complex sample designs, hosted at Harvard University. The site does not attempt coverage of packages that do not have the special features required to analyse complex designs. Information can be viewed by package or comparatively by topic.
World Opinion is a US Market Research organisation and their diary includes many events in UK, and the LTSN site has a diary of events.
Luchsinger Mathematics runs a job advertising site that focuses on posts that have some mathematical content, so includes Survey and Statistical posts. It is potentially worldwide, but concentrates on UK, US and Europe. Academic institutions (and some others) can post job adverts there without charge.
The University of Surrey Sociology department publishes Social Research Update quarterly, and all the articles are available on the web. Each is focussed on a single methodological or technical topic, and presented as a general introduction for a research audience. A good example is an introduction to multilevel models, by Ian Plewis.
Mike Fuller at the University of Kent maintains a List of Statistics Lists and Net Benefits, a set of articles on internet resources for statistics. (The last time we checked these links had stopped working!)
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research: this site lists FREE resources for methods in evaluation and social research, though it is heavily biased towards US sites. It is maintained by Gene Shackman.
SOSIG is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
Keoz6.com - a classified list of science-related sites (though with lots of rubbish included).
The ASC is formally affiliated to:
The International Association for
Statistical Computing, which is a section of the International
Statistical Institute.
The Market Research Society.
We have close relations with the Statistical Computing Section of the Royal Statistical Society. They don't allow formal affiliations, but we exchange committee representatives, which seems an even better deal!
The Social Research Association has a similar informal link with ASC (including help with events, like the Latimer conference), and lots of things on their web site are relevant to ASC members.
The Triple-S group now have their own web site at www.triple-s.org, and they have linked in with the Open Survey initiative, at www.opensurvey.org.
Files stored on this site for downloading are usually zipped: if you do not have access to a suitable unzipping utility I strongly suggest that you download the latest version from the Winzip web site. If you are working from a Mac, then you need the Zipit program instead.
Most of the files are presentations with Powerpoint. If you have an early version, or no version at all, you can find converters and viewers on the Microsoft Office Update page. Most exceptions are Word files, and converters are available from the same page.
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