New Statistics, 3/31/08

Introduction to probability with R
Baclawski
QA273 .B2535 2008
















UPDATED, Just received three more this after-noon:

Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Spatial Point Patterns
New Computational Paradigms (full-text online for IU)
Proportional Hazards Regression (full-text online for IU)

Not so much this round, just two new books.

First Course in Statistical Programming with R, by W. John Braun and Duncan J. Murdoch. Cambridge University Press
Swain Hall: QA276.45 .R3B73 2007


Semiparametric Regression for the Social Sciences, by Luke Keele, Wiley.
Swain Hall: QA278.2 .K42 2008

Springer E-Books for IU Bloomington

Indiana University has been collecting electronic books for several years, and we have enjoyed access to certain packages including Books 24X7 (computer science and scripting literature), the Lecture Notes in Computer Science e-books, and other individually (Pictured here: Virginia Gabor, Academic Licensing Manager, Springer, giving a short presentation to librarians on 3/26/08.) purchased titles through NetLibrary. Beginning this year the Bloomington campus and all of its users will have access to the full SpringerLink Digital Library. This includes the full-text of book series from 2003 – present, so what does this mean for Swain Hall and you all? Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Lecture Notes in Physics, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics will all be online (recent volumes anyway).
Other full-text book series for the next few years at IUB will include:
Advanced Texts in Physics
Advances in Database Systems
Kluwer published books
Advances in Solid State Physics
CMS Books in Mathematics
Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
The list goes on and on. There will be roughly 3,000 new science, technology, and medical e-books added in 2008, and it’s likely a similar number for 2009. Faculty, please begin to entertain ideas about how this vast digital library could help you with your research, and equally important how it can help with E-Reserves and your teaching loads. Please contact the library if you have questions about this new resource. This is an excellent online library for physics, mathematics, econometrics, economics, computer science, informatics, and the life sciences.

New Statistics, March 20, 2008

1. Eaton, Multivariate Statistics: A Vector Space Approach (full-text online)
2. Rempala, Symmetric Functionals on Random Matrices and Random Matchings Problems
3. Zhigljavsky, Stochastic Global Optimization
4. Balkema, High Risk Scenarios and Extremes: A Geometric Approach (kw: Quantitative Risk Management)
5. Cook, Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis with R and GGobi
6. Bartoszynski, Probability and Statistical Inference

More on E-Books, Jason Epstein in April's Technology Review

Epstein cofounded "On Demand Books", and on pp 12-13 of the April 2008 Technology Review he makes some points about the future of e-books, and the future of printed books..."the assumption that because content can now be transmitted electronically most books hereafter will be read on screens overlooks such factors as cost, convenience, reliability, and human nature, as well as the peculiar nature of books..." He goes on to say "The most rational form of digital transmission is not an electronic reader posing as a book but an actual library-quality paperback that has been printed...on demand at point of sale..."