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Current Index to Statistics

Produced by:  Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association
About: The Current Index to Statistics (CIS) is a bibliographic index of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields. It includes data from approximately 160 core journals, 1,200 additional journals in related fields, and 11,000 books. The bulk of the content in CIS is from 1975-2017.
Note: CIS does not link to PittCat. To locate an article, copy the article title, then search in the text box on the HSLS home page.

MathSciNet 

Produced by: American Mathematical Society
About: MathSciNet covers Mathematical Reviews from 1940 to the present. The full text of all reviews from 1940 to the present is available on MathSciNet. Current Mathematical Publications data and reviews ready for publication are added daily. Mathematical Reviews data is added each month when the printed issue is complete.

Web of Science  

Produced by: ISI/Clarivate
About: Web of Science provides access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. It indexes over 120 statistics/probability journals.

SpringerLink statistics ebooks

• This link includes ebooks that Pitt has purchased through SpringerLink.
• Why include this?
  • With any title (barring a very few exceptions) you can:
    • Download the full book;
    • Download a chapter; OR
    • Purchase the book at a greatly reduced price through the MyCopy program.

Search PittCat for statistics books, published 2015-2026

• Search with "biostatistics" as subject heading
• Search with "bayesian" as subject heading
• Search with "statistics" as subject heading and "health OR medicine" in any field
• Search by "statistics" subject heading

R/Python Office Hours (HSLS)

Alexis Cenname maintains regular office hours via Zoom.

LinkedIn Learning (asynchronous)

LinkedIn Learning has multiple tutorials on R (ex: Complete Guide to R: Wrangling, Visualizing, and Modeling Data; Complete Your First Project in R; R for Data Science: Lunch Break Lessons), Python (ex: Python Essential Training; Learning Python; Advanced Python), SPSS (ex: SPSS Statistics Essential Training; Advanced decision trees with SPSS), Stata (ex: Regressions in Stata; Advanced and Specialized Statistics with Stata). 

Once logged in, use the Search box at the top of the page to find the statistical software you would like to learn more about.