Statistics (mathematical): Recommended
Statistics is the applied science of making decisions from data. Virginia Tech's curriculum emphasizes the use of probability modeling to design efficient data collection schemes and to extract the maximum information from resulting data, using state-of-t
Overview for statistics (mathematical)
- Oxford Reference Online
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Oxford Reference Online provides full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference works. Individual articles can be downloaded as PDFs. - SAGE Knowledge - Reference
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Recommended online resources
- Science Citation Index from Clarivate AnalyticsScience Citation Index, a subset of Web of Science, indexes citations, abstracts, and some full text from journal articles, books, and conference proceedings in all science disciplines. You can search cited references. 1900-present.
- Current Index to StatisticsCurrent Index to Statistics (CIS) indexes citations and full text of articles and citations to books and conference proceedings on statistics, probability, and related fields.
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