
Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist
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"Uniquely accessible and abounding in modern-day tools, tricks, andadvice, the text successfully bridges the gap between the currentlevel of social science methodology and the more sophisticatedtechnical coverage." (Zentralblatt Math 1130, May 2008) "Clarity of presentations is excellent. Applied statisticiansand computer scientists will like this book and find it veryuseful." (Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation,November 2005) "[The authors] ...have succeeded in providing...a goodunderstanding of the potential pitfalls involved in theimplementation of methodology computationally, and...good advice ondealing with the problems that can arise." (Statistics inMedical Research, June 2005) "This book provides the researcher with an overview of theissues involved in the implementation and computation of commonstatistical procedures...." (Statistical Methods inMedical Research, Vol. 14, 2005) "...this book is a good reference for social scientists thatare involved in computational statistics." (Journal ofStatistical Software, April 2005) "...timely and interesting, and on the whole provides a goodbalance of theory, application, and computation."(Technometrics, May 2005) "...an excellent text. It has the potential to be enormouslyinfluential across the social sciences...It should be requiredreading for everyone who performs statistical computing at theadvanced level..." (Journal of the American StatisticalAssociation, June 2005) "...a compact guide to the voluminous literature onoptimisation, numerical analysis, and computational statistics.This is no small achievement." (Statistical SoftwareNewsletter in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis) "...a very important one for researchers, social scientists,and...graduate and post-graduate students in variousdisciplines..." (Computing Reviews.com, July 6, 2004) "This comprehensive research and guidebook by Altman, Gill, andMcDonald offers to social scientists modern tools and trickspreviously lacking in other works." (Choice, June2004, Vol. 41 No. 10)More details
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