Product Description: First published in 1985, this book provides the psychiatrist with a basic knowledge of the methods and concepts used in the sphere of artificial intelligence. The techniques not only involve building models of the mind (and hence aid hypothesis testing) but also incorporate programs to assist the everyday work of psychiatrists...read more

Product Description: Sir David Cox is one of the seminal statistical thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In this selection of his work, Professor Cox reviews his most influential and interesting papers published before 1993. Each paper is the subject of a candid commentary written especially for this collection...read more

Product Description: Sir David Cox is one of the seminal statistical thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In this selection of his work, Professor Cox reviews his most influential and interesting papers published before 1993. Each paper is the subject of a candid commentary written especially for this collection...read more

Product Description: Recent developments in critical theory form the basis for this new study of Dostoyevsky which evaluates the radical contributions to Dostoyevsky criticism made by the critic and literary theorist M.M. Bakhtin. Malcolm Jones first redefines Dostoyevsky's much-debated "fantastic realism"; accepting Bakhtin's reading of Dostoyevsky in its essentials, he seeks out its weaknesses and develops it in new directions...read more

Product Description: We live in a world of measurements. Measurements, be they of length, speed, weight, temperature, intelligence, income, endurance, greed, gross domestic product, quality of life, unemployment or skill at a job, are all numerical manifestations of the extent of some underlying attribute...read more

Product Description: John Nelder was one of the most influential statisticians of his generation, having made an impact on many parts of the discipline. This book contains reviews of some of those areas, written by top researchers. It is accessible to non-specialists, and is noteworthy for its breadth of coverage...read more

This second and revised edition contains a detailed introduction to the key classes of intelligent data analysis methods. The twelve coherently written chapters by leading experts provide complete coverage of the core issues. The first half of the book is devoted to the discussion of classical statistical issues. The following chapters concentrate on machine learning and artificial intelligence, rule induction methods, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and stochastic search methods. The book concludes with a chapter on visualization and an advanced overview of IDA processes.

Product Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2001, held in Cascais, Portugal, in September 2001.The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of almost 150 submissions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The chapters in this book describe various aspects of the application of statistical methods in finance. It will interest and attract statisticians to this area, illustrate some of the many ways that statistical tools are used in financial applications, and give some indication of problems which are still outstanding...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book should be of interest to statistics lecturers who want ready-made data sets complete with notes for teaching. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Recent developments in artificial intelligence and other areas of computer science have given statisticians access to powerful techniques for data analysis. The contributors to this book show how computer power can best be used in statistical applications...read more

Product Description: This book presents a summary of recent work on the interface between artificial intelligence and statistics. It does this through a series of papers by different authors working in different areas of this interface. These papers are a selected and referenced subset of papers presented at the 3rd Interntional Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Florida, January 1991...read more

Product Description: This book describes a practical aproach to univariate and multivariate analysis of variance. It starts with a general non-mathematical account of the fundamental theories and this is followed by a discussion of a series of examples using real data sets from the authors' own work in clinical trials, psychology and industry...read more

Product Description: Presents different approaches to discrimination and classification problems from a statistical perspective. Provides computer projects concentrating on the most widely used and important algorithms, numerical examples, and theoretical questions reinforce to further develop the ideas introduced in the text...read more