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Computing Resources
>> Got a question? Maybe the answer can be found in the FAQ.
>>Department of Statistics Publications and FTP site
>>Department Software
Execute instructions and important notes for all software accessible from the Statistics Department UNIX system.
| The Department has two computer labs for instructional use. The UNIX lab has 5 SPARC stations, 1 graphics X-terminal and a MacIntosh. The microcomputer lab, which is also used as a classroom, has 7 PCs which also act as graphics X-terminals to the UNIX system. The Department also has 4 SPARC stations and one IBM RS-6000 located in faculty offices. In addition, students have access to the University maintained IBM RS-6000's.
The Department has a strong committment to maintain an efficient computer environment to support its many teaching, research and consulting services. For example, the computer classroom allows applied courses to discuss many of the ambiguities in applied data analysis and alternative approaches for handling them. Often, techniques actually used are highly subjective and/or can only be proven "in the limit" for infinite samples. Experience with these techniques is required to understand the appropriateness of their use with actual data. This can often be efficiently acquired in the classroom through the use of computer simulation. |
>>ITC
UVa's computing resource (searchable). Contains plenty of help documents for UNIX, PC, and Macintosh environments and applications, and computer/account information and news. Faculty, staff, and students can setup and configure UVa accounts here.
General Information on computing at UVa is located at ITC's Survival Skills Manual.
Especially useful is the Refernce Information.
Instructors interested in using internet technology in their courses should take a look at the UVa Instructional Toolkit. The toolkit makes setting up course web pages easy (see the Stat 110 sites) and is fully supported by ITC (see the toolkit Help/FAQ, and available training classes).
Statistics faculty, staff, and students might consider setting up an account with ITC's Home Directory Service. (These accounts are accessible anywhere on Grounds, but have disk space restrictions.)
>> ITC Research Computing Support
>> LaTeX Documentation (courtesy ITC)
Latex conversion tools are available at this external (Mac-friendly) site, it specifically addresses converting MS Word RTF files to LaTeX files. Further information on TeX, LaTeX, LaTeX2html, and emacs is found HERE.
>> Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, and IMSL
Refer to Statistics Department Software page for links to ITC documentation.
>>Numerical Recipes Documentation
Download postscript (.ps) version of documentation (postscript files can be viewed using the UNIX command "ghostview").
>>SAS, S-Plus, and MINITAB (ITC)
ITC documentation and support.
>>Sun Solaris and Workshop Documentation
Workshop is an extremely helpful debugging tool.
>> Building a Personal Web Site on Using Your UVa Account
Explains how to create a directory and set up permissions for a www page in UNIX (courtesy ITC).
>>ITC on-line UNIX Documentation & Support
- Common UNIX commands
- U-002: Introduction to the Unix Operating System
- U-014: Introduction to the X Window System
- U-025: SAS on the RS/6000 (Much of this applies to the Statistics Department SAS)
- U-032: LaTeX -- A Document Preparation System
- UNIX File Protection Overview by Steve Losen, ITC UNIX support
>>Guide for basic computing at the Department of Statistics (intended for those taking STAT512 or STAT513)