Resources
How to give presentations
- a compilation of links on writing math and giving presentations
LaTeX Resources
- Making slides with Beamer
- Using pstricks with Beamer
- Short math guide for LaTeX by Michael Downes on using
amsmath for writing/formatting mathematics
- Drawing (graphs) with
pstricks: the book reference is "The LaTeX graphics companion" by Goossens, Rahtz and Mittelbach
- An overview on using LaTeX, Pstricks and Beamer to make presentations here explains the basic process step by step
- The pstricks core found here, effectively a reference manual
- Online tutorials see Chapter 15 Bibliographic Databases
- making graphs and figues with Tikz (by Wen Wei Loh) a graph and the tex file that creaated it
Reproducible research
- What it means and how to encourage reproducible research in ... a list of resources
- Jonathan B. Buckheit and David Donoho's article WaveLab and Reproducible Research
Software resources
- Best Practices for Scientific Computing by Greg Wilson et al.
- PyBrain ML library in Python
- MULTIBOOST: A Multi-purpose Boosting Package
Djalel Benbouzid, Robert Busa-Fekete, Norman Casagrande,
Francois-David Collin, Balazs Kegl;
JMLR 13(Mar):549-553, 2012.
Style files
- A conference paper
style file and a usage template (.tex) and .pdf (this makes a compact layout)
- Vladimir Minin's 518 example bib, .cls file and usage template (.tex) (this makes an airy layout, good for edits)
- A journal paper style file (this layout is more spacious than the conference one)
Math topics of interest
- Schur complement from Wikipedia
- Cholesky decomposition down-to-earth tutorial with small numerical examples
- A wonderfully useful collection of advanced matrix algebra results by Tom Minka (the matrix Schur complement is at pages 12-13) Old and New Matrix Algebra Useful for Statistics
Cplex resources
- Cplex manual (138 pages)
- Rcplex documentation (7 pages)
- Examples of Rcplex usage
cplex-at-stat.txt
cplex_init.R
mylp.R
myqp.R
- Course notes (by J. Bard http://www.me.utexas.edu/~bard/, 10 pages) on using Cplex alone and with Java
- Calling C from R notes by Charlie Geyer (UMN)
- Examples on using Cplex from C here
with short explanatory note here (thanks to Adrian Dobra, 1 page)
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