EXACT-STATS PROSPECT, Version of 27-Aug-96

This notice is to brief you about the list  exact-stats  and how to
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The purpose of  exact-stats  is to provide a forum for specialist
exchange of information regarding the concepts, use and programming of
randomisation/re-randomisation statistics and allied procedures.  The aims 
are partly academic (including the production of reference materials) and 
partly to promote the wider use of these techniques which have recently 
become feasible computationally.

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unfocussed e-mail  such as can occur on some general lists.

Although  exact-stats  is a closed list for subscription and thus for
participation in discussions, the files of  exact-stats  can be read by
anyone.  Files at present available include :

        prospect        (this message)
        introduction    (message sent to each new subscriber)
        rtpackages.txt  (a listing of commercial program sources for
                         randomisation tests etc.)
        bibintro.txt    (information regarding the bibliography files)
        bibliogen.txt   (bibliographic collections on aspects of 
                                randomisation
        biblioalg.txt   (tests, including algorithms (biblioalg.txt) and)
        bibliopre.txt   (a recent/reprints section (bibliopre.txt).  File
        bibliocom.txt   (bibliocom.txt is the sum of the other three file)
        glossary.txt    (explanations of terms specific to the topic area
                                of  exact-stats )
        pfishpas.txt    (a distributable program (Pascal source) for
                         the Fisher Exact Test on 2x2 tables of counts)

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