Computer Age Statistical Inference, Student Edition
Computer Age Statistical Inference, Student Edition The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology, both in scope and influence. How did we get here? 'Data…
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Computer Age Statistical Inference, Student Edition
The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology, both in scope and influence. How did we get here? 'Data science' and 'machine learning' have become familiar terms in the news, as statistical methods are brought to bear upon the enormous data sets of modern science and commerce.
How does it all fit together? And where are we going? Now in paperback and fortified with exercises, this book delivers a concentrated course in modern statistical thinking.
Beginning with classical inferential theories - Bayesian, frequentist, Fisherian - individual chapters take up a series of influential topics: survival analysis, logistic regression, empirical Bayes, the jackknife and bootstrap, random forests, neural networks, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, inference after model selection, and dozens more. The distinctly modern approach integrates methodology and algorithms