At couple of days ago I got my Amazon Kindle ($139, 3rd gen.). So far I'm really happy with it! While buying it, I decided that the cases were too expensive compared to the device. So I decided to make one myself. And as suspected, there was no happy end in that story. So hopefully the Amazon guys will read this post and view the pictures. And pity me. But the device itself is awesome and I enjoy using it. Only a couple of objections:

• Come on: use an open e-book format
• Support a library loan function (I know it's against your business as such, but it would be nice)

And the pictures:

Although R supports a lot of different probability distributions, it does not support the scaled inverse chi-square distribution - well, not directly. But it can of course be implemented.

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