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Computational Statistics Handbook with Matlab, 2nd edition (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer Science & Data Analysis) (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer Science & Data Analysis)
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Product Description
As with the bestselling first edition, "Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB" makes computational statistics as accessible as possible by playing down theory and building an understanding of the algorithms used in a wide range of applications. This second edition recognizes the new functionality of the MATLAB[registered] statistics toolbox and other updates like the new plotting capabilities of version 7.0. It includes a discussion of GUI functionality and expanded coverage of topics such as support vector machines, bagging, boosting, and random forests in pattern recognition. The text also features updated and new problem sets, data sets, exercises, and an appendix containing answers to selected problems.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #219825 in Books
- Published on: 2007-12-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 792 pages
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This book has proven very useful to me as it has allowed me to understand several computer intensive statistics through MATLAB. I have even successfully analysed my own data just following and slightly modifying the code. The secret to appreciate it is not to read it as a conventional book but to type every code using your MATLAB environment. I resolved to arrive two hours earlier than usual to my office since few months ago and every day I followed it page by page, code by code. For that you have to use the HELP on line command in order to find out why or how was done it, take out the semicolon at the end of every command and to see what came about, etc. And in that way, the book is excellent.
Not everything is stated on it, I guess that learning maths involves to think by yourself why you are doing this, and a lot of that is left to readers who really want to learn. Sometimes in two hours I ran through 10 pages, sometimes only half a page. I found a great aid to have the code perfectly dissected and I feel now sort of MATLAB basic literate.
The big, big, large and huge problem with this book is its big, big, large and huge price, which I found exaggerated,
especially for a PhD student like me.
