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- 1 2 Berkeley Citation awarded to biostatistician Steve Selvin for long history of achievement [ permanent dead link ]. School of Public Health (press release), Berkeley, 17. Oktober 2011
- ↑ Dr.Steve Selvin Archived 2010-10-19 at the Wayback Machine . Biography at the website of the Association of Schools of Public Health (retrieved 2012-9-30)
- ↑ Jason Rosenhouse: The Monty Hall Problem. Oxford University Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-19-536789-8, pp. 20-22, 31
- ↑ California College for the Arts. "Nancy Selvin," People. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
- ↑ @LizSelvin (July 2, 2020). "Letter Monty Hall wrote to my father, Steve Selvin, following his publication of the 'Monty Hall Problem' in the American Statistician" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ↑ Peterson, Susan H. "Dynamic Still Lifes of Form and Beauty," Airbrush Digest, September/October 1984, p. 24–32.
