Almost all papers these days have a DOI and it is worth knowing how to use them.
At the top or bottom of the first page of a paper, you will see something like this:
doi:10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.028
This is a unique and permanent identifier for the paper known as a “Digital Object Identifier”. The part before the forward slash [...]
Posts about references
Using DOIs
Dec 27
In the past couple of days, the authors of several blogs have noted that the wonderful book The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman (2nd ed., 2009) is now available for free download in pdf format.
Of course, it is also nice to have a hard copy. Click [...]
Sight what you cite
Aug 13
There seems to be a widespread practice of researchers citing papers they have never even seen, let alone read. For example
Some papers claim to do something new when it has already been done in one of the papers cited.
Some articles are cited that apparently have little to do with the reason given for the citation, [...]
All researchers need to maintain a database of papers they have read, cited, or simply noted for later reference. For those of us using LaTeX, the database is in the BibTeX format and is stored as a simple text file (a bib file) that can be edited using a text editor such as WinEdt.
But it [...]
Most students seem to go to Google first. This is not a good strategy. Google Scholar is much better as it filters out all the junk. Scopus is another engine that aims to do a similar thing. It is better organized but not so complete. ISI WOK is also not as complete as Google Scholar [...]
When searching for research articles online, I often find that the article is unavailable unless I go through the Monash library website, especially when working from home. Here are two solutions to the problem
Within Google scholar, go to “Scholar preferences” and under library links search for “Monash”. Tick the entry “Monash University – Check for [...]
I am slowly adding more statistics journals to my RSS feed on new statistics research papers. I am now covering 62 journals as well as working papers lodged on the statistics section of arXiv. The most recent additions are the statistics journals stored on Project Euclid, which includes the excellent IMS journals.
If your research interests [...]
Journal collections
Aug 20
There are several collections of journals held in our department which are available for any Monash Uni research students to borrow. If you do borrow from the collection, you MUST write your name & date on the white board, and please return journals within a day. That way the collection will be preserved [...]
R books
Jul 30
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LaTeX books
Jul 30
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