An Introduction
to S-Plus and the Hmisc and Design Libraries by C. F. Alzola and F.
E. Harrell (19Jul98, PDF, 296 pages). A general introduction to S-Plus
including information on using SAS with S-Plus. The Hmisc library, written
by Frank Harrell et al., provides, among many other utilities, functions
that are very useful for using S-Plus with LaTeX.
If you want to run S-Plus from home your best bet is to get a phoenix account
and use X-windows emulation on your PC so S-Plus will be able to display
graphics on your screen. Two free X-terminal emulators are:
MI/X a
free terminal emulator for Windows95. With an X-terminal emulator on your
PC at home you can use the motif() command in S-Plus and see full graphics
on your PC at home. This package doesn't have all the functions of an expensive
commercial package like eXceed but you might like to try it out. One problem
is that printing graphics on your PC is likely to be complicated.
Another free X-terminal emulator is the demo version of Starnet
X-win32. You can get a free demo copy of X-win32 from http://www.starnet.com;
"the only restriction in the demo is that no session can exceed 2 hours
(X-win32 will shut down and have to be re-started), which is probably just
as well if you are working over your home telephone line. I have
tried it on my slow 100-Mhz pentium with a 33.6 modem and the speed is
generally acceptable, though a window with complex graphs may take a while
to refresh. " (From Peter MacDonald at McMaster).
For Windows: html
or ftp. [His]
latest book (`Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks', 1996, CUP 0-521-46086-7,
details at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/PRbook/,
has the backgound and worked examples for these methods.
A very interesting site by Steve
Simon with information on teaching statististics and web page design.
Data sources
SDA. SDA stands
for Survey Documentation and Analysis. the package of programs performs
crosstabulations, comparison of means, comparison of correlations and ANOVA
on archived datasets in real time over the Internet.
DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is
an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic
statistics methods. We hope to provide data from a wide variety of topics
so that statistics teachers can find real-world examples that will be interesting
to their students. Use DASL's powerful search engine to locate the story
or datafile of interest.
University of Washington has experimented with having students in a statistics
course work in groups, communicating with each other on the web using special
the comments of their fellow students. Transcript at http://www.stat.washington.edu/andrew/fbl.html
http://www.isds.duke.edu/: If you
choose "courses" and then "basic statistics" you will find, among other
things, links to a number of applets useful in teaching a beginning statistics
The "Washington Post" web site: http://www.washingtonpost.com
provides a good example of background information on current stories.
National Public Radio (http://www.npr.com)
has archives of its programs that you can listen to on the web if you download
RealAudio.
For comments on Herrenstein and Murray's book, "The Bell Curve, Class Structure
and the Future of America" an article is expected to appear in http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/
There is an interactive form at URL: http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~esellers/thesis/weba.html
to check the links of one's website. If you are running from a machine
that will give a valid email address in response to an identd request (typically
a Unix box, *not* behind a firewall) you can create a link of your own
to URL http://www.scs.ryerson.ca/~esellers/cgi-bin/autocheck.cgi?http://site/path
where the part after the ? is the URL that you want to check.
It goes off and analyses your site, and will send you email pointing
out problems that it finds. Please send comments (positive and negative)
to: dmason@scs.ryerson.ca
The French ``Societe de Mathematiques Appliquees et Industrielles'', in
short SMAI, has started in 1995 a new electronic journal (ISSN:1262-3318)
E
S A I M : Probability and Statistics
Title: Nonlinear
Multivariate Analysis of NELS-88 Authors: George Michailides and Jan
de Leeuw. Re: "Has anybody ever encountered this problem before (PCA on
nominal, ordinal, discrete and continuous variables)? If so, have you got
a solution to propose?" From Jan de Leeuw: In SPSS Categories you'll find
PRINCALS. This procedure will allow you to mix different measurement levels
in PCA.
Advice lifted from a message on s-news: "If you're using a UNIX system,
you should probably look into procmail. It will pre-sort all of your incoming
mail into appropriate folders and do other useful things. It can be obtained
via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de"
Both Addison-Wesley and Prentice-Hall have a couple of full-length texts
already on the web. Also there is a second
edition of a book on object-oriented programming.
The address is Web
teleconferencing software site at the University of Georgia. This is
asystem, permitting the user to look at topics, branch to sub-topics, and
add notes to the discussion.
Governance (Arts)