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Author: James R. Thompson (Rice University, TX)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint: Wiley-Interscience
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.596kg
ISBN: 9780471251842
ISBN 10: 0471251844
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 30 November 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
...resource for beginning graduate students and professionals in applied statistics, computer science, economics and finance, engineering and the natural sciences. Highly recommended. (Choice, Vol. 38, No. 8, April 2001) ...an eclectic survey of computing methods...lively and interesting...the wide variety of example certainly helps bring the material to life. (Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 97, No. 457, March 2002) ...a very useful and entertaining book...a great reference book...contains some valuable material and philosophy that is unavailable anywhere else. (IIE Transactions) ...often entertaining...the level of detain and relevance is appropriate...a worthwhile read for model builders comfortable with both mathematics and simulation. (Complexity, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2002)
...resource for beginning graduate students and professionals in applied statistics, computer science, economics and finance, engineering and the natural sciences. Highly recommended. (Choice, Vol. 38, No. 8, April 2001) ...an eclectic survey of computing methods...lively and interesting...the wide variety of example certainly helps bring the material to life. (Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 97, No. 457, March 2002) ...a very useful and entertaining book...a great reference book...contains some valuable material and philosophy that is unavailable anywhere else. (IIE Transactions) ...often entertaining...the level of detain and relevance is appropriate...a worthwhile read for model builders comfortable with both mathematics and simulation. (Complexity, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2002)
Author Information
JAMES R. THOMPSON, PhD, is Professor of Statistics at Rice University. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, he is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. In 1985, he received the ASA's Don Owen Award, and in 1991, he was awarded the U.S. Army's Samuel S. Wilks Medal for his work in applied statistics. A frequent consultant to industry, he holds adjunct professorships at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas School of Public Health. He is the author of ten books, including Empirical Model Building, available from Wiley.
