Free Statistics Text from Computer Science TA
February 11, 2014
The Probability and Statistics Cookbook from Matthias Vallentin is a free statistics text. The creator, Vallentin, is a doctoral student at UC Berkeley who works with Vern Paxson in his studies of computer science. While there Vallentin has worked as a teaching assistant in undergraduate computer security course. Vallentin also works for the International Computer Science Institute. His research in network intrusion and network forensics began in his undergraduate career in Germany. The “cookbook” is explained in the article,
“The cookbook aims to be language agnostic and factors out its textual elements into a separate dictionary. It is thus possible to translate the entire cookbook without needing to change the core LaTeX source and simply providing a new dictionary file. Please see the github repository for details. The current translation setup is heavily geared to Roman languages, as this was the easiest way to begin with. Feel free to make the necessary changes to the LaTeX source to relax this constraint.”
The overview provides screenshots that make it clear the cookbook is more interested in the mathematical crux rather than elaborate clarifications. The author is open to pull requests in order to lengthen the cookbook, but in the meanwhile the LaTeX source code can be found on github.
Chelsea Kerwin, February 11, 2014
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