Terminology, tutorials, books

What is open data?

Open data is data that is made available by organisations, businesses and individuals for anyone to access, use and share.

The following are suggested subject searches in the library catalogue, for additional books about statistical analysis.

Getting started with SAS
Importing data into SPSS (Kent State University)
Quantitative Research Methods and Statistics
Resources for learning Stata
UCLA's data analysis & software examples
Examples (often hypothetical) illustrating the application of different statistical analysis techniques using different statistical packages. Each page provides a handful of examples of when the analysis might be used along with sample data, an example analysis and an explanation of the output, followed by references for more information.