Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition February 15, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521791685
ISBN-13: 978-0521791687
Product Dimensions:
10 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Product Review
"an extremely readable book. This would be an excellent book for a graduate-level course in statistical computing." Journal of the American Statistical Association
Product Description
This book explains how computer software is designed to perform the tasks required for sophisticated statistical analysis. For statisticians, it examines the nitty-gritty computational problems behind statistical methods. For mathematicians and computer scientists, it looks at the application of mathematical tools to statistical problems. The first half of the book offers a basic background in numerical analysis that emphasizes issues important to statisticians. The next several chapters cover a broad array of statistical tools, such as maximum likelihood and nonlinear regression. The author also treats the application of numerical tools; numerical integration and random number generation are explained in a unified manner reflecting complementary views of Monte Carlo methods. The book concludes with an examination of sorting, FFT and the application of other "fast" algorithms to statistics. Each chapter contains exercises that range in difficulty as well as examples of the methods at work. Most of the examples are accompanied by demonstration code available on a floppy disk included with the book.
Numerical Methods of Statistics
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