| This is my Statistics Reference - Amazon Links
page. This page was established to serve two purposes. (1) This page provides an internet reference to books that I have found useful. If you are looking for a book on a topic that is covered on this page, these books are a good place to start. (2) I would like to collect a consumer data set for statistical analyses. Since I do not have a commercial website, nor access to data from a commercial website, I have used Amazon links to display the book recommendations. If I can get friends and colleagues to route to Amazon through one of these links, then Amazon will anonymously track their Amazon purchases for a 24 hour window through a tracking cookie. This type of cookie tracking is routinely done by commercial websites (i.e. this is done to you on a daily basis everytime you surf the web), the only difference now, with regard to your Amazon purchase activities, is that I will have access to the information collected by the cookies. Please use this page to link to Amazon for all of your Amazon purchases, not just books. (Most of the people routing through this website would buy many of the same books. The data set with a single cluster in Cassella & Berger would not be very interesting.) Given the low volume that this web page will encounter, I suspect that it will take several years to develop an interesting data set. I don't wish to chain email this page, but if you happen to know some heavy Amazon purchasers, please consider mentioning the page. If you happen to be teaching a class, please consider mentioning the page. (Two years of tracking the Amazon purchases of 100 college students would add volume to the data.) On a related note purchase data of this type is also collected by grocery stores such as Kroger and Giant Eagle and pharmacies such as CVS. Any store that requires you to use a "shopper's card" to get a preferred price collects and analyzes data of this type. A paper on a related topic that you may find interesting is: Eigentaste: A Constant Time Collaborative Filtering Algorithm. [pdf]
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