FAQs & Documentation

Our math FAQs, stats FAQs, and tutorials can answer many of your questions, but you may also wish to visit some of the resources listed below to investigate more esoteric and/or advanced topics.

Mathematical Software Answers

CPLEX
CPLEX FAQs at UT

IMSL Fortran Numerical Libraries
IMSL C Numerical Libraries
IMSL online documentation
IMSL FAQs and useful tips from Visual Numerics

Maple
Maple FAQs at UT
Maple FAQs at Waterloo Maple
Maple Manuals, Guides, Books

Mathematica
Mathematica FAQs at UT
Mathematica FAQs at Wolfram Research
Help on using Graphics in Mathematica

Matlab
Matlab FAQs at UT
Mathworks Matlab Documentation

Statistical Software Answers

SSC Statistical FAQs
A searchable index of questions frequently asked by our clients. Includes general statistical topics, as well as software-specific questions for AMOS, HLM, Lisrel, Minitab, Mplus, SAS, & SPSS.

CISED Index to Statistics
A bibliographic database of applied and theoretical statistical literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

MINITAB Answers
The MINITAB website provides a list of the most frequently asked MINITAB support questions and their answers.

SAS Online Documentation
Provides full documentation of SAS software, including the data step and STAT procedures such as regression, ANOVA, categorical data analysis, multivariate procedures, and more. For each SAS/STAT procedure, syntax rules and examples are provided.

SPSS FTP site
Contains fixes, scripts, macros, and sample data sets. Plus: Have you ever wondered exactly what equations SPSS uses to calculate a Wilcoxon sign-rank test, to perform a K-means cluster analysis, or to produce a Greenhouse-Geisser test of within-subject effects? Now you can find out in the SPSS algorithms document.

SAS Global Forum (Previously called SUGI Proceedings)
Provides full text of presentations made at the conference of SAS Users' Group International, including such topics as: "How to Use the Data Step Debugger," "Web Publishing in SAS Software," "Anyone can learn PROC TABULATE," "PROC MEANS: More than just your average procedure," "Using Macro functions," "Determining curvilinear relationships in PROC REG," "Getting started with PROC LOGISTIC," "Custom design of complicated block experiments," and more.