Statistics and Computing

By: James E. Gentle

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Hardcover | 3 March 2012

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752 Pages

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Computational inference has taken its place alongside asymptotic inference and exact techniques in the standard collection of statistical methods. Computational inference is based on an approach to statistical methods that uses modern computational power to simulate distributional properties of estimators and test statistics. This book describes computationally-intensive statistical methods in a unified presentation, emphasizing techniques, such as the PDF decomposition, that arise in a wide range of methods.

The book assumes an intermediate background in mathematics, computing, and applied and theoretical statistics. The first part of the book, consisting of a single long chapter, reviews this background material while introducing computationally-intensive exploratory data analysis and computational inference.

The six chapters in the second part of the book are on statistical computing. This part describes arithmetic in digital computers and how the nature of digital computations affects algorithms used in statistical methods. Building on the first chapters on numerical computations and algorithm design, the following chapters cover the main areas of statistical numerical analysis, that is, approximation of functions, numerical quadrature, numerical linear algebra, solution of nonlinear equations, optimization, and random number generation.

The third and fourth parts of the book cover methods of computational statistics, including Monte Carlo methods, randomization and cross validation, the bootstrap, probability density estimation, and statistical learning.

The book includes a large number of exercises with some solutions provided in an appendix.

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From the reviews: "This is a book that covers many of the computational issues that statisticians will encounter as part of their research and applied work. ... The writing in the book is quite clear and the author has done a good job providing the essence of each topic. ... Overall, I think this is an excellent book. ... This book will give a graduate student a good overview of the field. There are exercises provided for each chapter together with some solutions." (Michael J. Evans, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 b) "This book is a superior treatment of the important subject of statistical computing. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who analyzes data using either a commercial statistical software package or statistical computer programs written by the user or someone else. Thus this book is important not only for data oriented statisticians but for econometricians, psychometricians, political methodologists and biometricians as well. ... All terms in this work including computing terms are clearly defined." (Melvin Hinich, Technometrics, Vol. 53 (1), February, 2011) "I greatly appreciated the author's command of both numerical and statistical computing ... . The book also contains many exercises that substantiate the concepts, with solutions and hints in the appendix, an extensive bibliography, and a link to further literature and notes. The target readership includes undergraduates, postgraduates in statistics and allied fields such as computer science and mathematics, scientific research workers, and practitioners of statistics and numerical techniques. ... I strongly recommend it for all scientific libraries." (Soubhik Chakraborty, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2010) "This book has a very large scope in that ... it covers the dual fields of computational statistics and of statistical computing. ... must-read for all students and researchers engaging into any kind of serious statistical programming. ... is well-written, in a lively and personal style. ... a reference book that should appear in the shortlist of any computational statistics/statistical computing graduate course as well as on the shelves of any researchers supporting his or her statistical practice with a significant dose of computing backup." (Christian P. Robert, Statistical and Computation, Vol. 21, 2011)

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