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CHANCE Magazine

CHANCE Magazine is a joint publication of the American Statistical Association and Springer-Verlag. The magazine features articles about statistics and the use of statistics in society in a style that is intended to be accessible to a broad public audience or anyone with "an interest in the analysis of data." Topic areas include statistics used in the social, biological, physical, and medical...

https://chance.amstat.org/
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FiveThirtyEight

FiveThirtyEight began in 2008 as an independent polling aggregation website. Founded by now-famous statistical analyst, Nate Silver, the site published articles accurately predicting several election cycles. The New York Times bought FiveThirtyEight in 2010 and sold it to ESPN in early 2014. These days readers can expect a punchy online magazine that dissects sports, politics, economics, science,...

https://abcnews.go.com/538
Journal of Statistics Education (Last reviewed in the Scout Report on July 19, 2002)

Published since 1993, the Journal of Statistics Education (JSE) is a publication of the American Statistical Association. Given the wide range of material found within its pages (both virtual and print), it can truly be considered one of the most important resources available for those who wish to make the world of statistics lucid for their students and others. Visitors can wander through the...

http://jse.amstat.org/
JSTOR: Statistical Science

This journals from The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is now available online. Statistical Science, Vols. 1-12 (1986-1997) is fully accessible to the hundreds of academic institutions participating in JSTOR. The journal may be searched by keyword, full-text, title, author, and abstract, or browsed by date of publication. A list of JSTOR participants is provided at the JSTOR site.

https://www.jstor.org/journal/statscie
Monthly Bulletin of Statistics On-line

The Statistics Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs has made its Monthly Bulletin of Statistics available (after subscription) on the web. Each issue contains the tables from the print version to "present current monthly economic statistics for most of the countries and areas of the world." The countries for which data is available vary widely by table, and...

https://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
Plus Magazine: Issue 20

"Plus is an internet magazine which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics." It is published in conjunction with the Cambridge-based Millennium Mathematics Project. The current issue addresses a wide range of topics that include fluid mechanics; probability; and the true, original purpose of the Game of Life. Besides several feature articles, each...

https://plus.maths.org/content/
Web Interface for Statistics Education

Web Interface for Statistics Education (WISE) is a project out of the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University, which "aims to develop an on-line teaching tool to take advantage of the unique hypertextual and presentational benefits of the World Wide Web (WWW)." The tool is intended to serve as a supplement to traditional teaching materials and to assist...

http://wise.cgu.edu/