Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Book: A First Course in Statistical Computing

Book: A First Course in Statistical Computing
by W. John Braun and Duncan Murdoch

162 pages

Used copies start at $15

This looks like a good introduction to advanced topics, but is a relatively short and lean book, so its depth is necessarily limited.

The latter chapters provide some advanced topics
Chapt/Title/Topics
5 / "Simulation" / Monte Carlo simulation/integration
6 / "Computational Linear Algebra" /
7 / "Numerical Optimization" / Newton-Raphson, Linear Programming

Its call number at the University of Pittsburgh is
Hillman: QA 276.45 R3B73 2007

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