Textbook using WWW browser and Xlisp-Stat

Jan Deleeuw (deleeuw@galton.math.ucla.edu)
Sat, 15 Oct 94 05:33:48 EDT

The subject line says most of it. I would like to develop
a textbook (introductory statistics) that is based on

--- hypertext (in particular html and its future descendants)
--- xlispstat (as the calculator and the engine for demos)
--- resampling and permutation testing (as the statistics,
both in the foreground and the background)
--- an emphasis of descriptive statistics and a de-emphasis
of models and inference

I cannot possibly do this alone. I have some support from the
administration, and I have a bunch of intelligent graduate
students, and there is some xlispstat code, and we have the
textbooks such as Moore, Moore and MacCabe, FPPA for guidelines.
But I welcome contributions of all kinds.

You can follow the progress at

http://www.stat.ucla.edu/textbook.html

which already has a tiny sampler of the product. Ultimately this
is supposed to develop in a free, high-quality, shared statistics
resource on the net. Dream on, Jan !

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Jan de Leeuw; UCLA Statistics Program; UCLA Statistical Consulting
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phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu