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The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN)
A university-based organization that creates demographic media, such as user guides, web sites, and hands-on classroom computer materials that make U.S. census data accessible to policymakers, educators, the media, and informed citizens.

Introduction to Data Analysis: Rules of Evidence
A text for data analysis in the social sciences.

by Joel Levine and Thom Roos

Factors Related to Wages in the Current Population Survey
A statistical monograph.

By Gary Engelhardt and Therese Stukel

False Memory Experiment

By Kathy Willis and Peter Frost

Exercises in Data Analysis
Three laboratory exercises in statistics.

By Joel Levine and Thom Roos

Misleading Aggregates

By Jerry Johnson

Misleading Averages

By Jerry Johnson

Reading and Interpreting Crime Statistics

By Lynda R. Wiest

Polls

By Robert Quinn

Comparing Causes of Death

By Julie A. Ellsworth

Likelihood of Cancer

By Julie A. Ellsworth

Applets for Teaching Statistics

By Tor D. Tosteson

Researching The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
The Role of Ideology in Biomedical Science

By James J. McKenna

Probability Examples

By John G. Truxal