William M. Grove's Links to Interesting Sites

Taxometrics, Mixture Modeling, Cluster Analysis

• Niels Waller's Taxometrics Page with taxometric code in R
• Paul Meehl's (1920-2003, RIP) web page with link to his publications. There are downloadable papers, many relating to taxometrics
• John Ruscio's web page with taxometric code in R
• Ted Beauchaine's web page with taxometric code in Statistica
• Nick Haslam's web page with references to his taxometric publications
• Mike Miller's web page with references to his taxometric publications
• Mark Lenzenweger's web page with references to his taxometric publications
• David Dowe's Mixture Modeling Page
• John Uebersax's Latent Class Analysis (LCA) page with links to many software packages for LCA (a form of finite mixture model), and references to his LCA papers. Also links to his Latent Trait Theory page
• Warren Sarle's note on the "number of clusters" problem, a topic obliquely related to testing for existence of a taxon

Statistical Software, Source Code, and Information

• Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) download R software here (available under GNU Public License)
• Niels Waller's main web page with links to non-taxometric code (some commercial)
• Statlib Index main entry point for CMU Statlib, with software (much in S, S-Plus, or R), data, papers, etc.
• CLUSTAN cluster analysis software package (commercial)
• Clustering Software Online links to programs and code
• Ganesha SAS Tips 'n Tricks
• PW's [SAS] Tips 'n Tricks Site
• SAS Consultant Special Interest GroupSAS coding tips & techniques
• SAS Insitute Code Samples: Technical Tips
• SAS Tips & Techniques
• Mathstatica Gold Mathematica add-on for distribution theory and mathematical statistics (commercial)
• A compendium of common probability distributions
• Resa Corp. Scientific Resources: Continuous Distributions

Pseudo-Random Number Generation

• Luc Devroye: Random number generation
• Stadlober's Random Variate Generators
• Pierre L'Ecuyer's web page with papers on pseudo-r.n. generation
• George Marsaglia's DIEHARD test suite and pseudo-r.n. CD-ROM
• (PLab) Theory and practice of random number generation
• RANLIB - Random Number Generation
• Generating multivariate correlated non-Gaussian pseudo-r.n.s
• Lyhagen "A method to generate multivariate data with moments arbitrary close to the desired moments"
• Høyland et al., "A heuristic for generating scenario trees for multistage decision problems"
• Headrick, "Fast fifth-order polynomial transforms for generating univariate and multivariate nonnormal distributions"

Mathematical Software, Source Code and Information

• Alan Miller's FORTRAN source code
• Transactions On Mathematical Software (TOMS) Algorithms (Fortran source code)
• Generally Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) (mostly FORTRAN) source code
• Netlib (mostly FORTRAN) source code, related papers, etc.

Science-Related Search Engines

• MathSearch search math/stat servers all over
• CiteSeer search documents in computer science, related areas of statistics

T_EX- and MS Word-Related Software

• Comprehensive T_EX Archive Network T_EX Catalog Online
• MikT_EX modern Win32 T_EX system
• WinEdt Win32 editor well integrated with MikT_EX (commercial)
• LaTable graphical interface for laying out LaT_EX tables (commercial)
• Design Science MathType replaces MS Word's rudimentary equation editor (commercial)
• ISI ResearchSoft EndNote MS Word add-in for scholarly references and lists (commercial)
• Editorium Editor's Toolkit MS Word add-in for people editing others' documents (commercial)
• Woody's Office Power Pack MS Word add-in (commercial)

Other Software Ported From *nix to Win32

• GNU Ghostscript
• UWIN (Unix For Windows) ports System V utilities to Win32. Includes Korn shell. Optional: Perl 5.04
• GNU emacs for 32-bit Windows obtaining, installing, configuring (available under GNU Public License)

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