Citing Conventions

When adding a proof or definition to "The Book of Statistical Proofs", please try to conform with the following examples for referencing sources of your submission.

Citing journal articles

• Example: "Partition of the log model evidence into accuracy and complexity"

Journal articles may be cited as follows

sources:
  - authors: "Penny et al."
    year: 2007
    title: "Bayesian Comparison of Spatially Regularised General Linear Models"
    in: "Human Brain Mapping"
    pages: "vol. 28, pp. 275–293"
    url: "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.20327"
    doi: "10.1002/hbm.20327"

which gives rise to the following output:

• Penny et al. (2007): "Bayesian Comparison of Spatially Regularised General Linear Models"; in: Human Brain Mapping, vol. 28, pp. 275–293; URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hbm.20327; DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20327.

Citing book chapters

• Example: "Derivation of the Bayesian information criterion"

Book chapters may be cited as follows

sources:
  - authors: "Claeskens G, Hjort NL"
    year: 2008
    title: "The Bayesian information criterion"
    in: "Model Selection and Model Averaging"
    pages: "ch. 3.2, pp. 78-81"
    url: "https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/model-selection-and-model-averaging/E6F1EC77279D1223423BB64FC3A12C37"
    doi: "10.1017/CBO9780511790485"

which gives rise to the following output:

• Claeskens G, Hjort NL (2008): "The Bayesian information criterion"; in: Model Selection and Model Averaging, ch. 3.2, pp. 78-81; URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/model-selection-and-model-averaging/E6F1EC77279D1223423BB64FC3A12C37; DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511790485.

Citing web pages

• Example: "Linear transformation theorem for the multivariate normal distribution"

Web pages may be cited as follows

sources:
  - authors: "Taboga, Marco"
    year: 2010
    title: "Linear combinations of normal random variables"
    in: "Lectures on probability and statistics"
    url: "https://www.statlect.com/probability-distributions/normal-distribution-linear-combinations"

which gives rise to the following output:

• Taboga, Marco (2010): "Linear combinations of normal random variables"; in: Lectures on probability and statistics; URL: https://www.statlect.com/probability-distributions/normal-distribution-linear-combinations.

Citing Wikipedia

• Example: "Cumulative distribution function of the normal distribution"

Wikipedia articles may be cited as follows

sources:
  - authors: "Wikipedia"
    year: 2020
    title: "Normal distribution"
    in: "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"
    pages: "retrieved on 2020-03-20"
    url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution#Cumulative_distribution_function"

which gives rise to the following output:

• Wikipedia (2020): "Normal distribution"; in: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, retrieved on 2020-03-20; URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution#Cumulative_distribution_function.

Citing ProofWiki

• Example: "Moment-generating function of the normal distribution"

ProofWiki entries may be cited as follows

sources:
  - authors: "ProofWiki"
    year: 2020
    title: "Moment Generating Function of Gaussian Distribution"
    in: "ProofWiki"
    pages: "retrieved on 2020-03-03"
    url: "https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Moment_Generating_Function_of_Gaussian_Distribution"

which gives rise to the following output:

• ProofWiki (2020): "Moment Generating Function of Gaussian Distribution"; in: ProofWiki, retrieved on 2020-03-03; URL: https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Moment_Generating_Function_of_Gaussian_Distribution.

Not citing a source

• Example: "Log model evidence for the Poisson distribution with exposure values"

The source metadata field can be left empty

sources:

which gives rise to the following output:

• original work

A submission file does not have to reference a source. If the proof or definition is mathematically sound and statistically correct, the file may still be added to the archive.