One key resource I use to identify books (and other resources) the library might want to buy is a trade magazine called Choice Reviews. This month, Choice had a review of SOCR: Statistics Online Computational Resource. The site has a number of instructional resources, and the review (which you can read in full here) seems to suggest that the site would be most useful for teachers of statistics. Since that means you, I thought I would share the site with you.

I hope you are all having a wonderful summer so far!

Hello, all – I ordered the following titles today:

• Survival and event history analysis edited by Neils Keiding & Per Kragh Anderson
• Proportional hazards regression by John O’Quigley
• Handbook of population edited by Dudley L. Poston & Michael Micklin
• Super crunchers: why thinking-by-numbers is the new way to be smart by Ian Ayres

As always, please let me know if you’d like me to hold any of these titles for you when they come in (either by commenting on this entry or e-mailing me directly).

Today, I ordered these three titles:

• The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History by Jayson Stark
• Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships by A. Stewart Fotheringham, Chris Brunsdon, and Martin Charlton
• The Methods and Materials of Demography (2nd edition) edited by Jacob S. Siegel and David A. Swanson

As with other orders, the Amazon links are provided only for reference. Please let me know if you have any questions, or would like me to hold any of these books for you when they come in. You can leave a comment on this blog post or e-mail me!

As you may or may not know, I do not have a strong background in statistics. I’m trying to learn more, and one way I’m trying to do this is by reading general science and statistics blogs.

One of the blogs I found is called the STATS blog. It’s written by the people who run http://www.stats.org. The entries tend to be about current events, and how statistics relate to these events. I think it’s fascinating reading.

I also thought you might be interested in the National Science Board’s Science & Engineering Indicators. These indicators are described as providing “a broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise.” (I think I read about these on Science Magazine’s This Week in Science RSS feed.)

If you read any stats blogs or news sites regularly, I’d love to hear about them.

That’s all I have for you now! I’ve received a few e-mails about book requests and other things recently, so I’ll be posting about those in a few days.

I ordered quite a few titles before break, and I’ve ordered several since returning, so this is a long list – over 40 titles! As with the last order, the Amazon links are provided for your reference (we don’t, as a rule, order from Amazon). Please leave a comment (or e-mail me) if you have any questions, or would like me to hold any of these books for you when they come in.

• Statistical Analysis of Environmental Space-Time Processes by Nhu D. Le
• Handbook of Parallel Computing and Statistics by Erricos John Kontoghiorghes
• Statistical Models: Theory and Practice by David A. Freedman
• Correspondence Analysis and Data Coding with Java and R by Fionn Murtagh
• S Programming by William N. Venables
• Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field
• Programming with Data: a Guide to the S Language by John M. Chambers
• Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies by William G. Axinn
• Generalized Additive Models: an Introduction with R by Simon N. Wood
• Statistical and Probabilistic Methods in Actuarial Science by Philip J. Boland
• Statistics: an Introduction Using R by Michael J. Crawley
• Statistical Analysis and Data Display: an Intermediate Course with Examples in S-Plus, R, and SAS by Richard M. Heiberger
• Probability and Statistics, v. 1: Basic Probability and Statistics by Yuri Suhov
• Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R by Brian S. Everitt
• Statistical Computing with R by Maria L. Rizzo
• Principles of Statistical Interference by D.R. Cox
• Understanding and Using Advanced Statistics by Jeremy Foster
• Robust Statistical Methods With R by Jana Jureckova
• Regression Modeling Strategies with Applications to Linear Models, Logistic Regression, and Survival Analysis by Frank E. Harrell
• Statistical Matching: Theory and Practice by Marcello D’orazio
• Tao of Statistics: a Path To Understanding (with No Math) by Dana K. Keller
• Regression Analysis for Categorical Moderators by Herman Aguinis
• Statistical Tools for Nonlinear Regression: a Practical Guide with S-Plus and R Examples by Sylvie Huet
• R and S-Plus Companion to Multivariate Analysis by Brian Everitt
• Structural Equation Modeling: a Bayesian Approach by Sik-Yum Lee
• Psychometric Theory by Jum C. Nunnally
• Extending the Linear Model with R: Generalized Linear, Mixed Effects and Nonparametric Regression Models by Julian J. Faraway
• Correspondence Analysis In Practice by Michael Greenacre
• Bayesian Methods: a Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach by Jeff Gill
• Statistics for Experimenters: Design, Innovation, and Discovery by George E.P. Box
• Medical Biostatistics by Abhaya Indrayan
• Linear Models with R by Julian J. Faraway
• Functional Analysis for Probability and Stochastic Process: an Introduction by A. Bobrowski
• Analysis of Integrated and Cointegrated Time Series with R by Bernhard Pfaff
• Model-based Geostatistics by Peter J. Diggle
• Multiple Testing Procedures with Applications To Genomics by Sandrine Dudoit
• Analysis of Phylogenetics and Evolution with R by Emmanuel Paradis
• Stochastic Modeling for Systems Biology by Darren J. Wilkinson
• Statistical Physics: an Introduction by Daijiro Yoshioka
• Computational Genome Analysis: an Introduction by Richard C. Deonier
• Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time-To-Event Data by David W. Hosmer

Have you ever wondered what statistics journals the library subscribes to? With electronic journals, this is actually a more complicated question than it might seem! While we subscribe to some journals outright, we may have access to others due to consortial agreements, and we may have access to still others as part of a package deal with vendors.

That being said, you can usually get a pretty good idea of what electronic journals the library has access to by looking at our eJournal listing.

For a slightly more comprehensive list (that includes print journals), you may wish to look at the holdings in our catalog. This listing includes both print and electronic journals (the latter of which are designated by the phrase “electronic resource”).

You may also be interested in the Directory of Open Access Journals’ listing of statistics journals. Many of these are already included in the library’s holdings, but you may find something else of interest to you!

Hello from your friendly neighborhood liaison librarian! One reason I’ve started this blog is to let you know when I’ve purchased new titles for the department, so here’s a list of items I’ve purchased so far this year:

• The Statistical Analysis of Recurrent Events by Richard J. Cook & Jerald F. Lawless
• Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data by Jerald F. Lawless
• Interpreting Basic Statistics: A Guide and Workbook Based on Excerpts form Journal Articles by Zealure Holcomb
• Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis by Alan Agresti
• Introduction to Bayesian Statistics by William M. Bolstad
• Analysis of Longitudinal Data, 2nd ed. by Peter Diggle, et al
• A Transition to Advanced Mathematics, 6th ed. by Douglas Smith, et al
• Introduction to Statistics through Resampling Methods and R/S-Plus by Phillip I. Good
• The Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics by Brian Everitt and Chris Palmer
• The Glass Wall: Why Mathematics Can Seem Difficult by Frank Smith
• Language and Communication in the Mathematics Classroom by Heinz Steinbring et al
• Communicating Mathematics: Perspectives from Classroom Practice and Current Research by Max Stephens et al

I’ve included links to Amazon for reference, but the library generally purchases titles through a different vendor. Please let me know if you have any questions about these titles, or if you’d like to have us hold the book for you when it comes in.