When I received this book, Handbook of fitting statistical distributions with R, by Z. Karian and E.J. Dudewicz,  from/for the Short Book Reviews section of the International Statistical Review, I was obviously impressed by its size (around 1700 pages and 3 kilos…). From briefly glancing at the table of contents, ... [Read more...]

For a long time I have been puzzled by the apparent lack of a comprehensive Open Source computer algebra software, i.e. what Octave is to MatLab and what R is to S. In other words, where is the Open Source … Continue reading → [Read more...]