V. References
- Efron, Bradley and
Tibshirani, Robert J. An Introduction to the Bootstrap, Chapman &
Hall, New York, 1993.
- Markowitz, H. M.
(1959) Portfolio Selection, Efficient Diversification of Investments,
1991 Edition, Blackwell, Cambridge MA.
- Savage, Sam L. Statistical Analysis for
the Masses in Statistics and Public Policy, edited by Bruce Spencer, Oxford
University Press, 1996. See http://www.stanford.edu/~savage/stat.pdf
for a pre-publication draft.
- __, INSIGHT.xla Business Analysis Software for
Microsoft Excel, - Text and Software, Duxbury Press, Belmont CA 1998.
- __, The Flaw of Averages,
San Jose Mercury News, Soapbox Column, October 8, 2000.
- __, Blitzograms –
Interactive Histograms, Informs Transactions on Education, Vol. 1,
Number 2, Fall 2000.
- Simon, Julian L., Resampling: The New
Statistics. Resampling Stats, Inc. 1974-1995.
- Simulation Software from other vendors: @RISK and Crystal Ball are two powerful Monte Carlo packages that should be considered if you outgrow XLSim. For a comparison see XLSimReference.xls
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