Free Analytic and Research
Information on the Web

These are information resources on the Web that you may find helpful. We try to keep this list updated regularly,but if you find any broken links, please let us know. Thank you.

Here are Analytics information links:

• WikiPedia has a good introduction.
• This is a WikiPedia article on the broader topic of Statistics, covering terminology and various methods of statistical analysis.
• Here is a free, interactive multimedia statistics book that provides a basic introduction to statistics.
• This is the Statistical Science Web, sponsored by the University of Melbourne, Australia. It has a good variety of useful links.
  

These Data Mining information links take analytics to a level beyond traditional statistical analysis, and include areas such as neural networks, genetic algorithms and other machine-learning techniques:

• This WikiPedia entry is a good, general introduction to data mining concepts and tools; it discusses applications for business, science and government/surveillance; and it also has some good links.
• Here you can find a lengthy series of downloadable (pdf format) tutorial presentations on statistics and data mining.
• This link takes you to KDnuggets, a leading Analytics and Data Mining site: News, Software, Jobs, Education, and more.
• This is The Artificial Intelligence Directory, which has additional links to useful AI information.
  

Here are Market Research information links:

• This introductory WikiPedia article on Market Research also has a large number of useful links.
• The Free Management Library has an excellent site devoted to educating visitors about Market Research concepts and techniques.
   

Here are Operations Research information links:

• WikiPedia has an introductory entry that also has many good links.
• Here's another WikiPedia entry that focuses on Optimization Methods in particular, and has additional links to topics such as Linear Programming, etc.
• Here's the government sponsored NEOS Wiki site, which has many additional links. [Note: sometimes during the night this site becomes unavailable, apparently due to server maintenance issues.]
• IFORS (International Federation of Operational Research Societies) is an umbrella trade organization that has some educational links.
• The Science of Better is another Operations Research trade organization with useful information.

Here are Decision Analysis information links:

• This WikiPedia article provides a good introduction to the broad topic of Decision Theory.
• This is a basic, general introduction to Decision Analysis at WikiPedia.
• For those who want an in-depth look at Decision Analysis, this site, Tools for Decision Analysis (at the University of Baltimore), has a great amount of detailed instructional information.
  

These links focus specifically on Project Management information:

• This is a very thorough WikiPedia article that covers the landscape and also has some good links.
• This is Max Wideman's site, that has some free, downloadable books and papers, as well as a useful glossary of terms.