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Jobs	Presentation giving help
AMSTAT - Listings in the ASA's monthly newsletter Internships - Listings in the ASA's December newsletter (updated with new listings), page down Purdue University listing University of Florida listing	2011 Joint Statistical Meetings guidelines for presentations - page down to "Guidelines for preparing effective presentations"
Professional societies	Statistics programs
American Society for Quality (ASQ) - Statistics division American Statistical Association (ASA) Biometrics - Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) International Statistical Institute (ISI)	Virtual Statistics Library listing
Research	R
Current Index to Statistics - Need to access through UNL library website or through American Statistical Association website Directory of open access journals - Consider publishing in these journals instead of journals where university libraries (and you) have to pay for access. Grants Grants.gov NIH Biostatistical Methods and Research Design Study Section - Primary group that will review statistical research grants NIH RePORTER Database - Search for research funded by NIH Biostatistics grants - Funding opportunities in Biostatistics and lists past grants (website supported by National Cancer Institute). NSF Directorate for Mathematical Sciences: Statistics group Directorate for Social, Behavorial, & Economic Sciences: Social & Economic Sciences group Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics program NSA Journal of Statistical Software - free journal Journal STORage (JSTOR) - Many statistics journal articles are available here with approximately 5 year posting delays. Some of the journals included are Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, Biometrics, JASA, and JRSS. Need to access through UNL library website. University of Nebraska-Lincoln library StatSci.org List of journals Web of science - Check for papers that have referenced a paper of interest; need to access through the UNL library website. Virtual Statistics Library	r-project.org Download from here; Link to Windows version Listserv website Search web page (see searchable archives) News reader way to read the R listserv posts Newsletters - See the Jan. 2001 newsletter for an introduction to R; The R Journal replaced the newsletter in 2009 Packages written by users - Add-ons to R R graphics gallery - See the thumbnails to easily browse through the graph examples Rseek.org - Google search that filters out non-R websites Rdocumentation.org - Search CRAN, GitHub, and BioConductor R help documentation written by users R by example UCLA's introduction to R Stackoverflow.com - Place to post R questions in addition to the R listserv. Program editors R-WinEdt with WinEdt. Note that WinEdt is shareware. Tinn-R RStudio Xemacs and emacs speaks statistics (ESS) R 2.0 and above has a limited program editor within it There are many textbooks that discuss how to use R: Adler (2010). R in a Nutshell. O'Reilly. Bilder and Loughin (2014). Analysis of Categorical Data with R. CRC Press. Fox and Weisburg (2010). An R and S Plus Companion to Applied Regression. Sage Publications. Murrell, P. (2011). R Graphics. Chapman & Hall. This is a very good book describing almost everything you need to know about constructing plots in R; author's website Venables, W. N. and Smith, D. M. (2002). An Introduction to R. Buy at Amazon.com or use the PDF version which already comes in R (Select HELP > MANUALS > AN INTRODUCTION TO R). Verzani, J. simpleR Using R for Introductory Statistics Zuur, A., Ieno, E., and Meesters, E. (2009). A Beginner's Guide to R. Bob Muenchen's books for new R users who already know how to use other software Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2010). Modern Applied Statistics with S Articles and blog entries 1-7-09 NY Times article entitled "Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power" and blog entry follow-up Revolutions blog Good post about trust in R One R tip a day R-bloggers Rosetta Code - Direct link to R solutions to a variety of problems; solutions are available for other programming languages too Pascal and R Free Pascal
Software (other)
LyX - Word-like interface to use LaTeX GrindEQ - Convert Word to Tex LaTeX (why would you still want to use it?) Help on LaTeX commands MiKTeX Statistics software help at UCLA
Teaching
Adapting and Implementing Innovative Material in Statistics (AIMS) Project American Statistical Association's list American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics Education Allan Rossman and Beth Chance's website CAUSEweb - Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education Statistics education research groups Chance Data and Story Library (DASL) International Statistical Literacy Project Journal of Statistics Education - Free online journal published by the ASA Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics Statistics Education Research Journal - Free online journal published by the International Association for Statistical Education and the International Statistical Institute Statistics Online Computational Resource Statistics Teaching and Resource (STAR) Library - now at the CAUSEweb website: www.causeweb.org/repository/StarLibrary/activities Teaching Statistics - UNL has access to it after a one year wait; see the on-line catalog Technology Innovations in Statistics Education - free online journal UCLA center for teaching statistics Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics Web Interface for Statistics Education Larry Winner's website - Lots of classes taught with web resources Data sets web page