In the past three or four years of my study in Canada, I have received numerous emails from fellow students back home requesting for journal articles and other academic resources. When I get such requests, I try to act promptly with enthusiasm. Our students are brilliant and catches things very quickly. They can analyze things very critically. However, their condition is like a powerful machine without any fuel. I (and perhaps others living abroad)  take my pleasure to provide them with a little bit of support whenever they need.

TeX is a computer program for typesetting documents, created by D. E. Knuth. It takes a suitably prepared computer file and converts it to a form that may be printed on many kinds of printers, including dot-matrix printers, laser printers and high-resolution typesetting machines. A number of well-established publishers now use TeX in order to typeset books and mathematical journals. LaTeX, written by L. B. Lamport, is one of a number of `dialects' of TeX. It is particularly suited to the production of long articles and books, since it has facilities for the automatic numbering of chapters, sections, theorems, equations etc., and also has facilities for cross-referencing. It is probably one of the most suitable version of LaTeX for beginners to use.

GRE is NOT an english proficiency test like ielts / toefl: its a graduate admission measurement test (measures verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, critical thinking, and analytical writing skills), based on which scholarship is determined, especially in U.S. universities. Check the official site for general overview.

When I was in 2nd year of my undergrad in Dhaka University, my elder brother got me a gift which he bought for me while coming back after finishing his course works in U.S.  The gift was a thin book and the title of the book was sort of funny - "The Little SAS Book: A Primer" written by two ladies Lora D. Delwiche and Susan J. Slaughter.

Survival analysis got easier than ever since the time Therneau wrote the Survival package for S-plus/R. There have been several extensions of this package.

Video tutorials on R (parallel to s-plus) specially made for newbies are available via youtube. This starts with the topics like

Vector arithmetics

If you want to put mathematical equations on your website but you do not have latex, dvipng, imagemagic installed on your shared hosting server, you will probably search Google with the following questions:

Probability distribution is central to anything that you might think about statistics. There are many terms in statistics which are not readily understandable when you hear them for the first time. As the time passes, you would probably pretend to have understood those mysterious words, yet, they might not resonate very well to you. I can reasonably assume that there are people who would not visualize many things on the first attempt. Probability distribution is one of those terms in statistics that you will hear almost all the time, but would probably find somewhat inconvenient to grasp.

It was one of the several occasions when I thanked myself to be a statistician!
At around 4:30pm my phone started ringing. It was an unknown caller on the other end. I knew, it will be another credit card offer or an offer for a telephone calling card. I was quite right (you don't need to be a statistician to predict such a call). I picked up the phone and the person at the other end began with the typical note:

Voice: "Hello, may I speak to Mr. Raheem"

-Yes, speaking.