Statistical Writing

Author

Elizabeth Schifano and Jun Yan

Published

October 5, 2026

Preface

This book aims to train students in statistics and data science on academic writing with professional tools such as LaTeX, BibTeX, R, and Git. It is based on our own writing experience of over 100 scholarly papers. Many of the tips have been taught to our Ph.D. students again and again. We hope this book saves us from that repetitive efforts.

The source of the book is at https://github.com/statds/stat-writing.

The first edition of these notes used the bookdown R package (Xie 2016). This edition is authored in Quarto; see https://quarto.org/ for installation and documentation.

Each chapter is a .qmd file that begins with a first-level heading (#). Render the HTML book from the project directory with quarto render.