Numerical Analysis for Statisticians

Kenneth Lange is the Rosenfeld Professor of Computational Genetics in the Departments of Biomathematics and Human Genetics and the Chair of the Department of Human Genetics, all in the UCLA School of Medicine. His research interests include human genetics, population modeling, biomedical imaging, co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lange, Kenneth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2010, 2010
Edition:2nd ed. 2010
Series:Statistics and Computing
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Recurrence Relations
  • Power Series Expansions
  • Continued Fraction Expansions
  • Asymptotic Expansions
  • Solution of Nonlinear Equations
  • Vector and Matrix Norms
  • Linear Regression and Matrix Inversion
  • Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors
  • Singular Value Decomposition
  • Splines
  • Optimization Theory
  • The MM Algorithm
  • The EM Algorithm
  • Newton’s Method and Scoring
  • Local and Global Convergence
  • Advanced Optimization Topics
  • Concrete Hilbert Spaces
  • Quadrature Methods
  • The Fourier Transform
  • The Finite Fourier Transform
  • Wavelets
  • Generating Random Deviates
  • Independent Monte Carlo
  • Permutation Tests and the Bootstrap
  • Finite-State Markov Chains
  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo
  • Advanced Topics in MCMC.