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June 13, 2006
Encyclopedias, statistical resources, references
Through Robert Israel's sci.math posting I've found an excellent online resource, especially for many statistical topics: Encyclopaedia of Mathematics. It seems better than the other two better-known options Wolfram MathWorld and Wikipedia. Another valuable resource Quantlets has several interesting books and tutorials, especially on the more financially oriented topics; while some materials are restricted, much of it is easily accessible. Finally, I have been impressed by Computer-Assisted Statistics Teaching - while it is of introductory nature, the nifty Java applets make it worth registering.
Posted by Aleks at June 13, 2006 10:09 PM
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Aleks,
I can believe this is a good resource for math, but I wasn't impressed by the first thing I looked up in statistics; see here. It's about 40 or 50 years out of date, I'd say.
The corresponding Wikipedia entry is better, although it's not perfect either--in particular, it only gives examples of discrete distributions.
I'm not trying to be a party-pooper here, just wouldn't want people to be led by this blog entry to have too much confidence in some uninformed encyclopedia articles.
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at June 14, 2006 02:33 PM