Resources
The Statistics Division is part of
the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The department is
housed in the former provincial archives building, now called the
Chase Building. The department has exceptional computing facilities,
which are used by students in some courses. The Statistical
Consulting Service provides advice to researchers in a wide variety
of disciplines.
Computing Facilities:
The Statistics Division has recently (2004) been
awarded an NSERC equipment grant to upgrade the existing Sun Unix
computer system with a high performance computer cluster.
The Statistics Division also houses and maintains a
10-node high-performance computer cluster obtained with funding
provided by the Genome Atlantic Centre of Genome Canada. A
proposal for a substantial increase in the size of this cluster has
been submitted to Genome Atlantic, and it seems likely that funds will
be made available for this upgrade as well.
A well equipped
UCIS computer lab is located in the
basement of the Chase Building (room 007: 494-1230). The lab is
equipped with 15 computers and with print facilities. A
Dalhousie NetID is required to use the computers in this lab.
Graduate students in the department are assigned
office space and desktop computers.
Consulting Services:
The Statistical Consulting Service has been
providing professional statistical consultation to researchers and
graduate students since 1974. As always, the mandate of this
service is to provide practical solutions to problems in a way that
makes efficient use of the data. We welcome problems both from
within Dalhousie University and from the government, business and
scientific communities outside Dalhousie.
For additional information about this service, and
contact information please follow the link to the
Statistical
Consulting Service web page.
Links to statistical resources on the web:
Statistical Society of Canada
Canadian Journal of
Statistics
Current Index to Statistics
List of statistics
and probability journals (Univ. Tennessee posting)
Journal of
Statistics education
Statistics jobs around
the world (Duke University Posting)
Splus tutorial
(very useful)
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