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Statistics 8701 (Geyer) Textbooks, Spring 2002

1. Christian P. Robert, George Casella (2000)
   Monte Carlo Statistical Methods
   Springer Verlag
   ISBN: 038798707X

2. Bradley Efron and Robert J. Tibshirani (1994)
   An Introduction to the Bootstrap
   CRC Press
   ISBN: 0412042312

3. R Development Core Team
   An Introduction to R
   Comes with the R distribution. Locally available in various formats as the files

         R-intro.html
         R-intro.pdf
   

4. R Development Core Team
   Writing R Extensions
   Comes with the R distribution. Locally available in various formats as the files

         R-exts.html
         R-exts.pdf
   

   Do not print copies of these on department laser printers! The department staff will get mad at you if you do.

   A paper copy for photocopying can be obtained from the department office and is also at Copies on Campus in the basement of Johnson Hall.

5. [recommended but not required] Some book about the C programming language (unless you are already proficient).

   The standard reference is K & R (see also at the publisher's web site). But many find this too elegant and austere. It is the right book if you are already an experienced programmer.

   A more user-friendly reference is the pink cow book.

   If you already know C or have a book about C, there is no need to buy a book.

   I have put my copy of the pink cow book in the lab, so you can use it there if you will be doing most of your programming in the lab.