Overview of modern statistics

The Culture of Statistical Modeling/EDA

• Leo Breiman, “Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures.” Statistical Science, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Aug., 2001), pp. 199-215. (.pdf)
• John W. Tukey, “We Need Both Exploratory and Confirmatory.” The American Statistician, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Feb., 1980), pp. 23-25. (.pdf)

Guassian/Linear Models

• K. Whitehouse, D. Culler. "Calibration as Parameter Estimation in Sensor Networks." In Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA), 2002. ACM Press. (.pdf)(.ppt)
• C. Guestrin, P. Bodi and R. Thibau and M. Paskin and S. Madden. “Distributed regression: an efficient framework for modeling sensor network data.” Information processing in sensor networks (IPSN), pp.1-10, 2004 (.pdf)(.ppt)
• A. Deshpande, C. Guestrin, S. Madden, J. Hellerstein, W. Hong; “Model-Driven Data Acquisition in Sensor Networks” In the 30th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), pp. 588-599, 2004 (.pdf)(.ppt)
• A. Deshpande, S. Madden, “MauveDB: Supporting Model-based User Views in Database Systems.” SIGMOD 2006 (.pdf)(.ppt)