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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2016-11-21 18:52:20 (GMT)
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@@ -441,3 +441,23 @@ Simulation of arrival times and service deliveries in a single server queue::
service_end = service_start + service_time
print(f'\t\t{service_start:.1f} to {service_end:.1f} serviced')
+.. seealso::
+
+ `Statistics for Hackers <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6mvYA>`_
+ a video tutorial by
+ `Jake Vanderplas <https://us.pycon.org/2016/speaker/profile/295/>`_
+ on statistical analysis using just a few fundamental concepts
+ including simulation, sampling, shuffling, and cross-validation.
+
+ `Economics Simulation
+ <http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Economics.ipynb>`_
+ a simulation of a marketplace by
+ `Peter Norvig <http://norvig.com/bio.html>`_ that shows effective
+ use of many the tools and distributions provided by this module
+ (gauss, uniform, sample, betavariate, choice, triangular, and randrange).
+
+ `A Concrete Introduction to Probability (using Python)
+ <http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Probability.ipynb>`_
+ a tutorial by `Peter Norvig <http://norvig.com/bio.html>`_ covering
+ the basics of probability theory, how to write simulations, and
+ performing data analysis using Python.