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Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB, Second Edition (Computer Science and Data Analysis) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Wendy L. Martinez, Angel R. Martinez
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 386347
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Pages: 792
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.8
ISBN: 1584885661
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.50285
EAN: 9781584885665
Publication Date: December 20, 2007
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Product Description
As with the bestselling first edition, this text covers some of the most commonly used contemporary techniques in computational statistics. With a strong, practical focus on implementing the methods, the authors include algorithmic descriptions of the procedures as well as examples that illustrate the use of the algorithms in data analysis. They offer all MATLAB code, example files, and data sets available for download online. Updated for MATLAB R2007a and the Statistics Toolbox, Version 6.0, this edition incorporates many additional computational statistics topics, including multivariate distributions, classifiers, clustering, parametric models, and smoothers.
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 Instantaneous Classic! February 19, 2002
J. Wrenholt (Lincoln, NE United States)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
As an independent student of probability and statistics this was a great find. You get a great overview of the useful algorithms of computational statistics. The chapter on Exploratory Data Analysis with its use of multidimensional graphing was very enlightening. It's wonderful that each topic is accompanied by source code (free on-line) that lets you see exactly how it's done. It's easy to tweak the code and explore your own data as you go along. You get just enough theory to understand the algorithm and lots of good common sense and rules-of-thumb on how to best apply it. Finally, the extensive bibliography and chapter-by-chapter annotations will point you straight to the best source for more in-depth study.
Great book February 8, 2002
Joe Paul (Philadelphia, PA US)
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
Great buy..neatly Represented. Will always Recommend.
For anybody who really want to use Matlab in Practice. I find this book great.
Great hands on hanbook January 11, 2007
Jonas S. de Almeida (Houston TX, USA)
Up to the point - great to have on the shelf for quick consultations. It makes a great textbook to be complemented with specialized papers on the different topics. A must have for anyone doing computational Statistics in Matlab. "Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB" by Wendy L. Martinez, Angel R. Martinez is a great follow up volume to this book.
 Good Book for me... June 17, 2004
R. Iyer (Buffalo, NY)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
There were a lot of negative comments for this book on Amazon so I sort of held off the purchase of this book. However, last week I ordered the book and quickly realised it is very useful. The book may lack detailed theory but excellent references are scattered throughout if you really want to follow it up. And the book is easy reading and well written with most statistical concepts defined before they are used.The focus of this book primarily is to explain how to work on statistics using Matlab and it provides a taste of various areas with adequate explanations and code to get started. One advantage of this book is they do not define their own notation but use the notation which is currently in vogue in academia. If you are starting out in Matlab, are not a statistician and do not have previous experience with other packages (like Splus or R) you should definetly think about getting a copy. If you are a Stats Guru you can just read the toolbox documentation. However note that these authors provide their additional stats toolbox FREE (which is also well written) on the website which contains most of Matlab statistical functions so you could save yourself some money on the Stats toolbox.
 sloppy writing July 9, 2002
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
I ordered this book assuming to get something useful, but i got the impression while reading the book that it is like a collection of notes from other books, wrapped with some matlab code. More worrying to me was that the mathematics makes a sloppy impression. For me that means I cannot grab the book to lookup something and use the code without having to be concerned on the validity. The bottomline being I will not use it for applications and the book is a waste of money.
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