Posts Tagged ‘ Books ’

Computational Statistics

May 9, 2010
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Do not resort to Monte Carlo methods unnecessarily. When I received this 2009 Springer-Verlag book, Computational Statistics, by James Gentle a while ago, I briefly took a look at the table of contents and decided to have a better look later… Now that I have gone through the whole book, I can write a short

Bayes vs. SAS

May 6, 2010
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Glancing perchance at the back of my Amstat News, I was intrigued by the SAS advertisement Bayesian Methods Specify Bayesian analysis for ANOVA, logistic regression, Poisson regression, accelerated failure time models and Cox regression through the GENMOD, LIFEREG and PHREG procedures. Analyze a wider variety of models with the MCMC procedure, a general purpose Bayesian

Difficulty with mcsm?

May 4, 2010
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An email from Keith I got this morning: Professor Robert, I have loaded the mcsm package to windows. The following messages appear in the R console: trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/windows/contrib/2.9/mcsm_1.0.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 193590 bytes (189 Kb) opened URL downloaded 189 Kb package 'mcsm' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked But when I use the

Research in pair next summer

April 29, 2010
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Today I received the very good news that our proposal with Jean-Michel Marin to undertake “research in pair” in CIRM, Luminy, a fortnight next summer was accepted! This research centre in Mathematics is a southern and French version of the renowned German centre of Oberwolfach and, while I would have prefered the cool Black Forest

Using R for Introductory Statistics, Chapters 1 and 2

April 27, 2010
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I'm working my way through Using R for Introductory Statistics, by John Verzani, a free version of which is available as SimpleR. Chapter 1 ...covers basics of R such as arithmetic, loading libraries and reading data. We also get an introduction to v...

An obscure integral

April 7, 2010
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$An obscure integral$

Here is an email from Thomas I received yesterday about a computation in our book Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R: I’m currently reading your book “Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods with R” and I quite highly appreciate your work. I’m not able to see how the integral on page 74, that describes the marginal

Chinese versus Japanese editions

March 8, 2010
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Last week, I got news from Springer Verlag about possibly two new editions of my books, one in Chinese and one in Japanese. These were bad news and good news: the bad news was that the Chinese edition was actually a reprint of our original book,  Monte Carlo Statistical Method, by a Chinese publishing company.

How to use mcsm

February 27, 2010
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Within the past two days, I received this email Dear Prof.Robert I have just bought your recent book on Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R.  Although I have checked your web page for the R programs (bits of the code in the book, codes for generating the figures and tec – not the package available

Joining R-bloggers

February 18, 2010
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Upon request by the blog administrator, Tal Galili, I have joined R-bloggers, which aggregate blog entries about R into a central place. I feel I have much more to learn than to teach about R (as can be seen from earlier comments on my R programs in Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R). As I