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Thu, 2008-07-03 06:44 — Duncan
3 monkeys in a tree by PhitarI'm not much of an evolutionary biologist, but Jonathan Eisen asked for help and I can't resist. So, in the name of Science, and via the goodness of nodalpoint, here is some deserved Google Juice for various Trees of Life on the Web.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Edited by Timothy Gowers
June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, associate editors
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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) launched a public research consortium named ENCODE, the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements, in September 2003, to carry out a project to identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence. The project started with two components - a pilot phase and a technology development phase.
Now a newly published volume provides me with a splendid example of how there is still a place for print reference in the world: the Princeton Companion to Mathematics, edited by Fields Medal winner Timothy Gowers and published by Princeton University Press
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Jan de Leeuw is distinguished professor and chair at the Department of Statistics, University of California at Los Angeles. He has a 1973 Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Leiden, Netherlands. He came to UCLA in 1987, after leading the Department of Data Theory at the University of Leiden for about 10 years.
His research is in psychometrics, multivariate analysis, multilevel analysis, and computational statistics. He has published several books and hundreds of research papers. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Royal Statistical Society. He is the editor in chief of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis, the founding and current editor of the Journal of Statiatical Software, a former editor of the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, a former president of the Psychometric Society, and a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.