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Recommended resources
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The following collection of resources are things we have found useful when studying the subject and building the
library.

Textbooks
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-    Practical Nonparametric Statistics (1999), by W.J. Conover
-    Survival Analysis (2011), by R.G. Miller.
-    Analysing Survival Data from Clinical Trials and Observational Studies (2004), by E. Marubini and M.G. Valsecchi
-    Graph Theory (2017), by R. Diestel.
-    Chi-squared Goodness-of-fit Tests for Censored Data (2017), by M.S. Nikulin
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Articles
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-     NetworkGT: A GIS tool for geometric and topological analysis of two-dimensional fracture networks (2018), by B. Nyberg and C.W. Nixon
-     The use of topology in fracture network characterization (2015), by D.J. Sanderson and C.W. Nixon
-     The connectivity of two-dimensional networks of spatially correlated fractures (2002), by T. Manzocchi
-     Damage zone characterization combining scan-line and scan-area analysis on a km-scale Digital Outcrop Model: The Qala Fault (Gozo) (2020), by M. Martinelli et. al.
-     Estimation of Wood Fibre Length Distributions from Censored Data through an EM Algorithm (2006), by I. Svensson
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Online resources
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-    `Reliability Analytics Toolkit <https://reliabilityanalyticstoolkit.appspot.com/>`_ - a collection of tools which run using the Google App Engine. Includes a `tool <https://reliabilityanalyticstoolkit.appspot.com/weibull_analysis>`_ for fitting a Weibull_2P distribution.
-    `Distributome <http://www.distributome.org/V3/calc/index.html>`_ - Provides PDF and CDF of a large number of probability distributions that can be easily changed using sliders for their parameters. It also includes a quantile / CDF calculator. Similar to the Distribution calculator below.
-    `Distribution Calculator <https://www.randomservices.org/random/apps/SpecialCalculator.html>`_ - Provides PDF and CDF of a large number of probability distributions that can be easily changed using sliders for their parameters. It also includes a quantile / CDF calculator. Similar to Distributome above.
-    `Wolfram Alpha <https://www.wolframalpha.com/>`_ - an amazing computational knowledge engine. Great for checking your calculations.