PATHFINDER: FINDING STATISTICS
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview Sources|Business
Statistics|Historical Statistics|Specialized
Statistics|World Rankings|Circulating
Books|Periodicals,
Journals & Trade Publications|Web Sites
SCOPE: The term statistics refers to the
mathematics of gathering data and the approaches used in
describing and analyzing numerical
information.(Rosenberg,Dictionary of Business and
Management) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve
as a guideline for student research in locating library
resources on the topic of statistics. It is not intended
as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling
of the many types of materials available in the library.
Subject covered include business and financial
statistics, airline statistics, as well as materials on
general statistics.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with statistics are listed in the Baddour
Libray’s online catalog under the following subject
headings:
Cost and standard of living—United States—Statistics
Prices—United States—Statistics
United States—Statistics
Wages—United States--Statistics
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
GENERAL
REF HA33.5.B47 1998 Finding
Statistics Online: How to
Locate the Elusive Numbers You Need
REF HA 155.G34 1994 Gale Book of Averages
REF HA 202 Statistical Abstract of the United States
REF AY 67.N5W7 The World Almanac and Book of Facts
REF JF 37.S797 Statesman's Year-Book
REF HA 154.S67 2001 World Statistics Pocketbook
BUSINESS
REF HD 4975.A447 2001 American Salaries and Wages
Survey: Statistical Data Derived from More than 200
Government, Business & News Sources
REF
HB235.U6A53 2002 American Cost of Living Survey: A Compilation of
Price Data for Nearly 580 Goods and
Services in 506 U.S. Cities from More than 100 Sources
REF HF 3001.U583 Business Statistics of the United
States
HISTORICAL
REF E 185.S7 1990 Statistical Record of Black America
REF
HC110.C6 M545 2003 American Generations: Who They Are,
How They Live, What They Think
SPECIALIZED
REF T21.B47 1999 The Statistical Handbook on Technology
REF HC 101.U54 U.S. Industry & Trade Outlook
REF HQ 796.S8237 1996 Statistical Handbook on
Adolescents in America
REF HE 9803.A6 2002 FAA Aerospace Forecasts, Fiscal
Years 2002-2013
WORLD RANKINGS
REF HA 155.k87 2001 The Illustrated Book of World
Rankings
Some representative books from the Circulating
Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Best, Joel.
Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling
Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Desrosieres, Alain.
The Politics of Large Numbers: A
History of Statistical Reasoning. Cambridge , Mass:
Harvard University Press, 1998.
Moore, David S.
Introduction to the Practice of
Statistics. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1999.
Wheater, C. Philip.
Using Statistics to Understand the
Environment. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library
subscribes to that focuses on the topic of statistics
are:
PERIODICALS , JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
Business Week
The Economist
Monthly Labor Review
Open Access Journals in
Statistics
WEB
SITES
Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Compiled by the Documents Center at the University of
Michigan’s Library. Some of the topics covered through
the 24 topics areas are education, foreign economics,
foreign trade, health, science, and government finances.
Survey Research
Resources
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~abelson/
U. S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/
Updated
08/24/2007
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