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感慨一下：
这学期要学 C，SAS，学着用 UNIX
原来打算上门要用 python 的课，不过满了没选上，要不我真就可以天天坐电脑前了

下周二 Statistics Career Night，希望订的pizza 够吃，目前确认了有 9 位 panelist
我们的SPA要后继有人啊，不然这一年的辛苦就浪费了～
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有一个 presentation 还不知道说什么呢，又大包大揽下另一个。。。

端木MM是我等学习的榜样
顺便问下，考个SAS base对于出国申请有用吗？

82# shufesc

找工作的时候可能会有点用，申请的话只能作为掌握SAS基本知识的一个证明吧，实际上很多统计系的老师偏向于用R，当然有一个certificate有益无害呵呵
SAS在experimental design课上用到了

Common Errors in Statistics (and How to Avoid Them)
by Phillip I. Good, James W. Hardin
Ch.8 Graphics p.107-125

Five rules for avoiding bad graphics:
Rule 1: Don't produce graphics illustrating more dimensions than exist in the data.
Rule 2: Don't superimpose labeling information on the graphical elements of interest. Labels can add information to the plot, but should in (otherwise) unused portions of the plotting region.
Rule 3: Don't allow the range of the axes labels to significantly decrease the area devoted to data presentation. Choose axis limits wisely and do not automatically accept default values for the axes that are far outside of the range of data.
Rule 4: Carefully consider the nature of the information underlying the axes. Numeric axis labels imply a continuous range of values that can be confusing when the labels actually represent discrete values of an underlying categorical variable.
Rule 5: Do not connect discrete points unless there is either (a) a scientific meaning to the implied interpolation or (b) a collection of profiles for group level outcomes.

Rule 6: Use a contour plot over a perspective plot if a good viewpoint is not available. Always use a contour plot over the perspective plot when the axes denote map coordinates.
Rule 7: Do not use pie charts unless the sum of the entries is scientifically meaningful and of interest to the reader.
Rule 8: Put the legend items in the same order they appear in the graphic whenever possible.

Two rules for text elements in graphics:
Rule 9: Captions for your graphical presentations must be complete. Do not skimp on your descriptions.
Rule 10: Keep line styles, colors, and symbols to a minimum.

brief ones to start:

Microsoft Word vs. LaTeX
http://cibu.edu/students/microsoft-word-vs-latex/

The Beauty of LaTeX
by Dario Taraborelli
http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex

Longer ones:

LaTeX isn't for everyone but it could be for you
by Andy Roberts
http://www.osnews.com/story/10766
(see some quote from this article below)

A Quick Introduction to LaTeX by Pascal Getreuer
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~getreuer/latex.html

Useful online reference I use a lot:
from Wikibooks
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Latex

quote from LaTeX isn't for everyone but it could be for you
by Andy Roberts
http://www.osnews.com/story/10766

    Anyone who has used Microsoft Word for a reasonable amount of time will recognise my very own Andy's Laws on Word:

       1. Likelihood of a crash is directly proportional to the importance of a document.
       2. Likelihood of a crash is inversely proportional to the time left before its deadline.
       3. Likelihood of a crash is directly proportional to the duration since you last saved.
       4. Likelihood of you throwing your computer out of the window is directly proportional to the number of times Clippy pops up.
       5. That's enough laws for now...

    Even with simple documents, you can quickly become frustrated by Word's rather unintelligent interference. The hours that are wasted trying to position that image which you know will fit at the bottom of the page, but Word refuses to put it there! How many can relate to this experience? You have your 30 page document with text, tables and images. You just spent the evening getting it formatted nicely - all your figures in the right place and then you notice that one of your paragraphs isn't clear enough. You add one sentence, which then pushes an image on to the next page, leaving a massive gap at the bottom of that page where your image once was. This then daisy-chains down, knocking other tables and images out of place all the way to the end of your document! It's a real laugh. Fortunately, Latex is much more clever in this respect and positions your images and tables with a lot of common sense. So, if you want your image to appear at the bottom of a given page, it'll stay there!

    So who is Latex good for?

    Quite simply, anyone who is writing non-trivial documents and is tired of being let down by the performance of the current crop of word processors. If you are in academia, you really ought to be using it! Anybody writing anything maths related will not find a richer and better quality system. For example, even WikiPedia use Latex for rendering any formulas that appear on their site.

Mark下，6月底回美国后慢慢看。。。。。。。很多链接国内确实不太好打开。

另外TeX上手并不难，不快的上手方法其实就是找教授要一篇论文的TeX原码，剩下的几乎就是套那篇文章的布局和模板，仔细专研里面的每一条代码，活用"%"命令，折腾折腾就能懂了。书籍的话推荐国内CTEX论坛版主写的那个"LaTeX-从入门到精通"，有空认真读读。

另外嫌数学公式敲的累或懒得老是跑程序也可以偷懒，下个LYX就行，里面的数学输入所见即所得，可以自动输出一模一样的TEX码。当然LYX也可以写文章初稿，不过最后还是要把生成的代码在WinEdt下进行微调。LYX里面也可以插入TEX码进行辅助，不过我还是习惯生成代码后微调。LYX里面有自带的用户手册，感兴趣可以读读。

实在有不懂的可以去CTEX论坛讨论。

Mark下，6月底回美国后慢慢看。。。。。。。很多链接国内确实不太好打开。

另外TeX上手并不难，不快的上手方法其实就是找教授要一篇论文的TeX原码，剩下的几乎就是套那篇文章的布局和模板，仔细专研里面的每一条代 ...
demonhunter 发表于 2010-6-5 20:55

赞～ 我也该学习一下CTEX怎么用 ：P

LaTeX Beamer class 也超级强大，我现在的presentation slide 都是用beamer写的

game of chance ^^

大赞！！！
那个蓝绿的色子很可爱啊
哪里搞的？

大赞！！！
那个蓝绿的色子很可爱啊
哪里搞的？
小K 发表于 2010-6-9 10:31

我们学校MathDay演讲送的礼物，是Bing赞助的 ^^