Brian W. Junker

Department of Statistics

There is a breeze that comes by here everyday
Freshens the spirit, takes the dead away
There is a sun that shines for you and you and me
It's been healing nights for centuries

Mark Henley, ca. 1972
(There is a Breeze, Michael Johnson, ATCO 1973.)

"I don't have a tempo..." -- Leo Kottke

• In Fall 2002 I am teaching 36-711: Statistical Computing .

• In Spring 2002 Kim Sellers and I co-taught 36-402: Advanced Data Analysis.

• In Fall 2001 I taught 36-707: Regression Analysis and Kim Sellers and I co-taught 36-401: Modern Regression.
 
• During the 1999-2000 academic year I was on leave at the Learning Research and Development Center . Now I'm back at CMU Statistics .
 
• As of OCTOBER 1, 2000, Carnegie Mellon Statistics will undergo a (slight?) name space change:
• The Department of Statistics will be located at http://www.stat.cmu.edu
• Statlib will be located at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu
• CMU home page.
• My Andrew Contributed home page, and a faster version of it, for people on S.I.N.
• My personal internet  resource list... You may not be able to get here if you're not me...
• On this page you can learn about:  General Stuff , Statistics Classes , Statistical Organizations , Meetings , and Documentation and Resources . 
• Information for Undergraduates (both majors and non-majors) interested in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Course descriptions for Statistics and Other Disciplines , and the curricula for the undergrad major and minor in Statistics at CMU.

General Stuff

• About  me . See also the list of selected technical reports that are available on-line.
• About CMU Statistics ; and recent Alumni Newsletters .
• A more-or-less current list of faculty/staff phone numbers in the department , and throughout the campus .
• About Statistics in general .
• It appears I am a recent Dilbert convert...
• ...and I like to keep track of local Jazz and local color in Pittsburgh ...

Statistics Classes

• Links of interest to Undergraduates taking Statistics classes at CMU.
• Course grades .
• A primer on Epsilons and Deltas , which is useful for studying theoretical statistics.
• Resources for Beginning Statistics Students (at all levels!).
• Statistics Classes that I teach

Statistical Organizations

• ISI .
• The Institute of Mathematical Statistics : IMS Meetings , Electronic Probability Journals , IMS Bulletin .
• The American Statsitical Association: ASA Home Page and Summer Internship Listings
• Statistics Canada and the Statistical Society of Canada .
• Psychometrika , the official publication of the Psychometric Society , devoted to the development of psychology as a quantitative rational science.
• Links to classification and methods groups from Leiden University.

Meetings

• Upcoming Meetings
• Past Meetings

Documentation and Resources

• Statistics .
• Miscellaneous contacts .
• Miscellaneous Ed Testing places.
• A very few Data Sources .
• TeX, LaTeX and Friends .
• WWW Access and Programming .
• Windows 95 help .
• CMU Library Home Page ; and some frequently-used services:
• Some links for Andrew Security and CMU-Only Web Services .
• WebCat , also known as Cameo .
• PITTCAT
• Other Cats
• User services , including renewals, interlibrary loan, etc.
• the Full Catalogue , and
• Math Sci Net .
• J-STOR . 
• PsycINFO .
• CMU's University Teaching Center .
• NOAA and NOAA weather forecasts all over the US.
• Some of my favorite newspapers are The Minneapolis Star Tribune , The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , The Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times . and the NY Times . I don't love USA Today but they have a nice Polls and Attitudes page for examples from presidential election polls.
• Some interesting student newspapers: The Tartan , The Pitt News , The Daily Illini , The Minnesota Daily .
• I also like Deutsche Welle and Süddeutsche Zeitung , and of course Die Zeit (thanks to Jan Stefanek for that one!). Here are some other interesting German language links .
• A multilingual translation dictionary .
• You can find other newspapers by looking at this news stand .
• A couple magazines, including US News , and Time .
• Some useful References such as toll-free phone directory, dictionaries, zip codes, weather, etc.
• Writing style guides, citation guides, etc.
• Heidi's home page (links to dictionaries etc.)
• Weather from Intellicast.
• ITN airfare checker.

ITN Advanced Search . AMEX Version of ITN.
• Deutsche Bahn .
• And finally, maps and directions on directions on how to get anywhere in the USA ; as well as maps for elsewhere in the world .

• PAT Bus schedules and the 54C (weekdays) .
• Links to statistical computation on the World Wide Web.

• Law News Network pages.
• Vote Smart . Type in your zip code to get local candidate information.
• Another link .

Brian Junker

Brian Junker                    (412) 268 - 8873
Department of Statistics        brian@stat.cmu.edu
232 Baker Hall                  FAX: (412) CMU-STAT
Carnegie Mellon University        or (412) 268-7828
Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA