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RESEARCH links and articles
There are number of other downloads on the Industrial Statistics
Documents page www.industrial-statistics.com/docs/.
- Figure-it-out, does manufacturing ignore the
goose that has laid the golden egg for pharmceuticals, bio-medical and the
financial services industries? A short and punchy message to business
and manufacturers, on the importance of statistics with a UK slant,
- Organise, a company re-organisation strategy, currently
being worked into an applications package with software,
- Newcastle- a slightly edited version of the presentation
at the Manufacturing 2000 North Show
- Linux, an argument for open source software,
- Actormap a program that sorts out text files for
social network analysis.
- The main statistical group in the UK is the Royal
Statistical Society . This is one of the premier statistical societies
with membership and local groups all round the world.
- The Manchester Local Group of the RSS has it's own web site here.
- Another is the American Statistical Association.
- In a European context, there is ENBIS
- the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics.
- There is a lot of interesting stuff to be found on the Statlib
Index
- The best open source statistical software by far I have found is R
(or GNU S)
- The BUGS Project
is an inferential program where the programming syntax catches many unwary
people - but it makes you think in data structures and information flow.
- Octave is a near-clone
of Matlab.
- An excellent guide to scientific software, particularly for a Linux platform,
may be found at sal.kachinatech.com
which contains a search engine and indexes to many products, commercial, GPL
and shareware.
- There are a multitude of Linux pages but one of the most useful is
Yusuf
Mitiwala's page.
- Others are obviously www.linux.org and
www.gnu.org.