The impact of the internet on researchers' training

Abstract

The paper explores the reasons that have made the Internet even more important for the training of researchers, both for pure statisticians and scientists who use statistics for analysing experimental data. The author discusses various aspects of the role of the Internet and focuses on those contributions that populate the network with valuable tools and services (electronic journals, electronic books, virtual labs, data archives and examples of data analysis, etc.). An extensive bibliography has been provided to guide new users, through the millions of sites of the chaotic World Wide Web, towards the most interesting places for people involved in statistics.