Monday 8 February 2010

Knowing your statistics is a fact of scientific life...

...and it's no exception for us PhD students. Below are three resources that have made statistical concepts and their application(s) truly accessible and intelligible to me (though I admit statistics was never really my strength).

Introduction to Statistics and Multivariate Statistics by David W. Stockburger from Missouri State University and Statnotes: Multivariate Statistics by G. David Garson from North Carolina State University.

Some good advice from the guys at Cornell

There's a long list of links with tons of good advice for PhD students at this site: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/czars/mentor/. I loved the one about getting your abstract rejected by Mary-Claire van Leunen and Richard Lipton.