Academic Links

• Teaching
• Slides on Marketing & Cluster Analysis (in Italian)
• Notes on Descriptive Statistics (In Italian)
• Statistics for Health Economics course website (University of Milano Bicocca, in Italian)
• Modern Advanced Methods in Biostatistics (List of events organised for the 10th anniversary of the University of Milano Bicocca)

• Health Economics
• Centre for Bayesian Statistics in Health Economics (CHEBS) @ Sheffield University (UK)
• Centre for Health Economics @ the University of York (UK)
• Oxford Health Economics Research Centre @ Oxford University (UK)
• CERM Foundation &minus Competitiveness and Market Regulation &minus Rome (Italy)
• MAPI Values of Adelphi Group, Macclesfield (UK)
• A Note on Bayesian Inference for Health Scientists by Tony O'Hagan & Brian Luce

• Software for statistical analysis & utilities
• WinBUGS - software for Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations
• Matlab- numerical computing environment and programming language
• MatBUGS- Kevin Murphy's utility to call WinBUGS from Matlab
• Octave- Matlab clone (free software)
• Scilab- yet another Matlab clone (free software)
• Gnumeric- free spreadsheet with built-in statistical capabilities
• PSPP- SPSS clone (free software)
• TeX4PPT- MS Powerpoint macro to use LaTeX fonts in presentations
• Excel2Latex- MS Excel macro to export tables in LaTeX language
• PDFCreator- utility to create pdf files from MS Windows applications (free software)
• Virtualbox- nice software to create virtual machines (to run several OSs at once)

• Computer codes of interest for Bayesian Analysis
• WinBUGS codes for Applied Bayesian Analysis
• Matlab Collection of .m files for statistical analysis

• Bayesian Networks & Influence Diagrams (some useful presentations)
• Introduction to Bayesian Networks by Henrik Bengtsson
• Probabilistic Expert Systems by Peter Green
• Probabilistic Graphical Models by David Madigan
• Introduction to Graphical Models & Bayesian Networks by Kevin Murphy

• Statistical Scientific Societies
• American Statistical Society &minus Alexandria, VA (USA)
• Royal Statistical Society - London (U.K.)
• International Society for Bayesian Analysis
• Italian Statistical Society &minus Rome (Italy)

• People
• Bruno de Finetti tribute website
• Wikipedia on Dennis Lindley
• Philip Dawid's home page
• Tony O'Hagan's research page
• Jose Bernardo's home page
• Giovanni Parmigiani's home page
• Peter Congdon's personal page
• Dani Gamerman's personal page
• John Pezzullo's home page
• Marco Ramoni's home page
• Bayesian People around the world

• Business, Organizations & Useful
• CliCon Outcome Research and Evaluation - Ravenna
• ATA Advanced Technology Assessment in Health Care - Florence
• Cestat Statistical Elaboration - Florence
• statistica.it - a statistics portal; many links and pieces of information for the statistical community

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