This guide is based on works by many current and previous graduate students and faculty. Its previous version: ``Tips for Grad Students in Statistics at Rice'' was originally assembled by Keith Baggerly with assistance from Will Wojciechowski, Patrick King and John Dobelman. New contents were added constantly by Blair Christian with assistance from Michael Swartz. This computing guide is greatly expanded by Bo Peng when he works as the helpdesk consultant of the statistics department.
All comments and contributions are appreciated. They should be directed to helpdesk@stat.rice.edu during the 2004-2005 school year.