STAT 295: Topics in Statistics

LaTeX Items

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LaTeX Items

Mathematicians (and statisticians) use LaTeX to typeset their results. This ubiquity came about for several reasons. One is that LaTeX is entirely free. A second is that LaTeX is “easily” customizable to meet the particular needs of the academic journal. One of my favorite reasons to use LaTeX over any other writing program is that it makes handling figures so easy. If you update a dozen figures in Word, then you need to re-attach each of those dozen figures. In LaTeX, you just have to recompile once. Updates are all but automatic.

I use the MiKTeX distribution on my desktop computer. On my MacBook Air, I (apparently) use the TeXShop distribution. In class, feel free to use Overleaf as your primary LaTeX engine. Using an online engine is less flexible than downloading the distribution to your own machine. However, it takes disk space to download and install your selected distribution.

 

Course Hwk Style File

A style file contains LaTeX commands that help to make the document-creation process easier and more uniform. To use this, download it to your course folder. Then, if you are using Overleaf, upload it to each project (assignment) folder. Do not forget to put \usepackage{stat295style} in the preamble before you specify your name, the assignment, and the date.
 
 

Example Assignment File

This file is an example .tex file. Feel free to use it as a template for all of your assignments in this course. Add your new solutions between the \maketitle and \end{document} lines.

The part of the file that is before the \begin{document} line is called the “preamble.” This is where the parameters of the document are defined. For your assignments, you will just want to change the \title, \author, and \date. Everything else can remain the same.

 
 

Cheat Sheet

This handout provides a listing of most of the features of the course style file.
Updated: January 7, 2020 at 2:45 pm.