Research Guides: Health Statistics & Data: Help and Additional Guides

Getting help

Help is available at the Map & Data Library (located on the 5th floor of Robarts Library). MDL has computers with GIS and statistical software, including special viewers like Beyond 20/20. Staff can assist with finding and using statistics & data and with learning statistical software platforms.

Guides on finding & using statistics & data

Finding and Using Health Statistics: A Self-Study Course
Designed for librarians and users of health statistics, this set of slides will help in finding health statistics, using the web to get the latest information, and deriving information from raw data.
Glossary of statistical terms
From the John Crerar Library, a very useful list of definitions of terms used in statistics, with a focus on health-related terms.
Problems with using information: misinterpretation of statistics
A Statistics Canada non-technical mini-guide explaining how to avoid some common mistakes in interpreting data. Covers sample and population size, variability, sampling error, and errors in taking survey and census data.
ODESI guide
ODESI is a repository of Canadian statistical and survey data, particularly Statistics Canada public use microdata files. This guide covers searching and exploring data in ODESI.

Writing and citation help

How to cite from Statistics Canada
Describes, in three steps, how to build your references when citing sources obtained through Statistics Canada.
Online writing lab: using statistics
Developed by Purdue University, this website gives tips on how to incorporate, report, and summarize statistics in research essays.
Writing at the University of Toronto
Advice and resources about academic writing. Information about the campus writing centres.

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