From: Resampling Stats
Subject: Resampling
HELLO, AND WELCOME TO THE RESAMPLING PROJECT
Thank you for responding to our post regarding resampling statistics.
The aim of the Resampling Project is to spread the word about the
revolutionary "new statistics" of resampling -- listed in Kotz
and Johnson's _Great Breakthroughs in Statistics_ as the only
great breakthrough in the last 2 decades. But information about
this method has spread only slowly outside the profession. And
uses have so far been mostly limited to state-of-the-art
difficult problems, rather than the everyday problems for which
it has the most to offer.
To further this aim, we offer you FREE a wide variety of
informational materials. All can be downloaded from the
internet, or we will send them to you on disk. The short
reprints are available on paper via regular mail
("snail-mail"), if you prefer.
We are associated with the software developer Resampling Stats
that sells the program of that name to perform resampling
operations in an efficient and user-friendly fashion. We will
pass on your name to receive commercial information about
Resampling Stats unless you instruct us not to.
These are some of the items about us and by us that are
available:
"Pick a Sample," by Ivars Peterson, _Science News_, July 27, 1991
"Resampling: A Tool for Everyday Statistical Work," by Julian L.
Simon and Peter C. Bruce, _Chance_, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1991, pp.
22-32, .
"Probability and Statistics With Resampling Stats and
Mathematica," by Julian L. Simon and Peter C. Bruce, _The
Mathematica Journal_, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Winter, 1993, pp. 48-55.
"The New Biostatistics of Resampling", by Julian L. Simon and
Peter C. Bruce, _MD Computing_, v. 12, #2, 1995
_Resampling: The New Statistics_, by Julian L. Simon,
published in preliminary edition by Duxbury Press in 1993.
"Easy Resampling Answers to Mosteller's and Others' 'Challenging'
Problems in Probability", by Julian L. Simon (manuscript in
progress).
"Evaluations of Teaching Introductory Statistics Via Resampling",
by Julian L. Simon and Peter C. Bruce, preprint
HOW TO OBTAIN RESAMPLING MATERIALS
BY REGULAR MAIL ("SNAIL-MAIL")
You can obtain the short reprint materials listed above, or
others listed in the Worldwide Web browser (instructions below)
by e-mailing or snail-mailing your address and requests to
Peter Bruce
Resampling Project
612 N. Jackson St.
Arlington, VA 22201
inquire@statistics.com
You can obtain a disk of all the materials above by sending a
formatted high-density IBM disk to Peter Bruce at the address
above.
DOWNLOADING ELECTRONICALLY
If you are accustomed to using the World Wide Web:
Point your Web browser to the following URL:
http://www.statistics.com/Welcome.htmlc_affairs/press_releases/pr343m.html
If you are not accustomed to using the Web:
We'll try as hard as we can to give you instructions that are
clear and successful. But there are are a number of different
ways to access the material, and systems change frequently. If
these instructions don't work for you, check with someone who
understands the internet system you work with -- there is
probably another way to "get there" using some of the information
below.
You first much reach a Unix system prompt at which you can type a
Unix system command. This unix prompt is often what you see
before you type the command to start your email program.
After you have logged on and see this unix prompt, type
lynx http://www.statistics.com/Welcome.htmlc_affairs/press_releases/pr343m.html
While you are browsing using lynx, you can mail material to
yourself by typing "p".
If lynx does not work, try
www http://www.statistics.com/Welcome.htmlc_affairs/press_releases/pr343m.html
The above instructions, if they work, will allow you to look at
the Resampling "Web Page", in "text only" mode (without graphics
or mouse control).
IF NONE OF THE ABOVE WORKS, you can obtain most of our materials
via telnet, gopher, or ftp. This is a "back-door" approach to
our material, and there may not always be on-screen guidance for
you.
FOR TELNET:
Type "telnet inform.umd.edu"
This should bring up a screen with instructions on how to use the
"InforM" system. After you finish the instructions you will be
connected to a general university Web page. See below.
FOR GOPHER:
Type "gopher gopher.umd.edu"
This will bring up a menu system.
FOR TELNET OR GOPHER: Select choices as follows :
"Educational Resources", then
"Academic Resources by Topic"
"Statistical Resources"
"Resampling Statistics"
You will then see further choices among various articles and
books -- most of the material listed in the beginning of this
message is available in this fashion. There is usually an
instruction at the bottom of the screen telling you how to
download this material or mail it to yourself.
FOR FTP:
(this is a less user-friendly method)
Type "ftp inform.umd.edu"
Log in as anonymous and give your login name as the password.
Type "cd inforM/EdRes/Topic/Statistics/Resampling_Statistics"
("cd" means "change directory")
Type "ls - F" for list of the available topics
"CD" to the topic you are interested ("cd puzzles" for example)
Type "get filename" (where filename is the name of the file that
you want to download)
Peter Bruce Resampling Stats
phone 703-522-2713 612 N. Jackson St.
fax 703-522-5846 Arlington, VA 22201
nOn Fri, 27 Oct 1995, Daniel Taub wrote:
> I am certainly interested in finding out about whatever materials you
> have available about resampling methods in statistics. I have read about
> these methods to some extent, and played a bit with them, but never tried
> any serious applications, though I might well someday.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel Taub
> Department of Ecology and Evolution
> Stony Brook University
> Stony Brook NY 11794
> max@life.bio.sunysb.edu