books by Springer     books:       The Elements of Statistical Learning25 reviews T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani, ... Springer, 2003 elements of statistical learning i really like this book. i haven't finished reading yet. it's extremely dense. by that, i mean every page, every paragraph is packed full of information. it makes for slow but very rewarding reading. i bought the book because i wanted to learn something about the topic. i've got a math and statistics background, but i haven't dealt with the broad topic of data mining or statistical ...             Bayesian Computation with R (Use R)2 reviews Jim Albert Springer, 2008 more practicality added to Bayesian inference Jim Albert is a great teacher and an excellent writer. The R language is becoming one of the most used languages by statistical researchers. This is because it has many similarities to S and can be used freely, Jim makes R easy to learn for statisticians in this book. One of the big breakthroughs in Bayesian statistics over the past 2 decades was the implementation of complicated priors and ...             Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles5 reviews Richard B. McKenzie Springer, 2008 The Agatha Christie of Economics? If you have seen or heard McKenzie being interviewed about his book on TV or radio, you might think that his book is about nothing more than the price of popcorn. He does provide an interesting explanation for the high price of popcorn that is very different than what almost everyone believes. But the book uses simple economic reasoning and examines lots of facts to explain the pricing of a ...             Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)38 reviews Christopher M. Bishop Springer, 2007 Authorative text I am a PhD student who wanted to own a good book on pattern recognition. I asked my professor, who had recently attended an international conference on speech recognition, which book to buy. He said that several top academics in the field at the conference had agreed that this was THE book to have, and he agrees with them. After reading though the first few chapters I am impressed by the ...             Stochastic Calculus for Finance II: Continuous-Time Models (Springer Finance)26 reviews Steven E. Shreve Springer, 2008 Pre-digested chicken soup for the "aspiring quant" While writing a review for Hull's text, I suggested that an easier (than to start with Hull) way to learn quantitative finance is to pick up one of the more focused books on the subject. There is a huge deluge of these books - I think one comes out every few weeks. They all cover the same topics, in roughly the same manner, so there is little that distinguishes one from the other. There is ...             Atlas of Ultrasound- and Nerve Stimulation-Guided Regional Anesthesia Ban C.H. Tsui Springer, 2007 There are few situations in anesthesia where precise anatomic location is more important than in regional anesthesia. But, of course, any anesthesiologist who performs regional on a regular basis is fully aware of the frustration of attempting to locate nerves on a trial and error basis. Ultrasound imaging now enables us to visualize nerves, and this exciting technology offers several distinct benefits over conventional nerve locating ...             Beyond Fear45 reviews Bruce Schneier Springer, 2006 Reading it improves the reader security intelligence The content of this book slightly overlap the content of the author previous book Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World but presents the material with a different angle. An angle with the perspective of a security expert that witness security measures taken by governments in reaction of the 9/11 terrorism attack and wants people to understand the absurdity of some of these ...             Data Manipulation with R (Use R)4 reviews Phil Spector Springer, 2008 a must for statisticians wanting to learn R This book along with Jim Albert's should be read by every statistician that does a lot of statistical computing. Both books help you learn R quickly and apply it to many important problems in research both applied and theoretical. Albert emphasizes applications in Bayesian statistics whereas Spector is teaching how to do data manipulation, things like merging and transposing data sets. These ...             Interest Rate Models - Theory and Practice: With Smile, Inflation and Credit (Springer Finance)6 reviews Damiano Brigo, Fabio Mercurio Springer, 2007 New stuff and nice overview: hard to beat! In the late nineties I went through Brigo's innovative work on stochastic nonlinear filtering with differential geometry techniques. I was favorably impressed by results and style, particularly in his dissertation and in his 'geometry in present day science' very readable overview. Interesting results are found and nicely told with accurate - but not pointlessly complicated - advanced ...             Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Engineering (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability)19 reviews Paul Glasserman Springer, 2003 Review for Monte Carlo Methods... by P. Glasserman The book is just right for a reader who is looking for state-of-the-art techniques in Monte-Carlo methods in general. The fact that the book is specific to financial systems does not limit the usability of the book in the manner it is written. There are a lots of useful references one can get out of this book. The book is for advanced readers in the sense that it requires rigorous mathematical ...             Stochastic Calculus for Finance I: The Binomial Asset Pricing Model (Springer Finance)15 reviews Steven E. Shreve Springer, 2005 Best SC book ever I have the 1st version (pdf), so I hesitated before I make the purchase. Now it turns out that the book is worthy every buck. 1. Use coin tossing space consistently as working sample. Very intuitive, never get the idea lost in abstract concepts. 2. Detailed workout of examples. Very good for self study. 3. Plenty of hands-on homeworks. Not necessarily very challenging. But provide good ...             Introductory Statistics with R18 reviews Peter Dalgaard Springer, 2004 Excellent resource I bought this book a little over a year ago when a friend and colleague insisted I learn the R system for our collaborative work. I am not a professional statistician, but an engineer and researcher who needs and uses statistics in the course of my professional work. I found this book approachable and informative from the non-professional perspective. (That is, from the viewpoint of a ...             Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R (Use R)3 reviews Deepayan Sarkar Springer, 2008 Outstanding Deepayan Sarkar won a prize for programming Lattice. He deserves another for writing this book. The usual style of help files in R (including Lattice) is terse; this is a deliberate choice by the developers. Presumably, a lot of people like this terseness - but I am not one of them, and there are many others I know of who share my confusion at some of the help files. Now, there's a whole ...             More Math Into LaTeX, 4th Edition4 reviews George Grätzer Springer, 2007 The one LaTeX book to have What new can I write about a book that is in its fourth edition, and has served the LaTeX community for almost two decades? There is a new chapter on presentations and an appendix on installing LaTeX on a PC and on a Mac, so you get help from the get go. Also, for the first time, this book merges TeX, LaTeX, and the AMS packages into one, smoothing the learning curve for beginner and advanced ...             Handbook of Evidence-based Radiation Oncology12 reviews Springer, 2006 Comprehensive, concise, but not in depth This is very useful pocket handbook for just about every radiation oncology trainee out there. It clearly presents management recommendations for everyday malignancies, and then follows that up with a three to four line summary of each of the pivotal papers. Its only weakness is a lack of critical appraisal of the evidence it cites, but then again, if you only rely on this handbook and don't ...             Surgical Anatomy and Technique2 reviews John E. Skandalakis, Panajiotis N. Skandalakis, ... Springer, 2002 Huge aid This book serves as the guide to surgical pimping for medical students. This allowed me to enter cases with a clear understanding of the anatomy of the case and an incite into the techniques that we would be using.             Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases (Primer on Rheumatic Diseases (Klippel))8 reviews Springer, 2008 Definitely worth having if you're interested in Rheumatology In medical school, rheumatology is one of those subjects that most medical students cannot really conceptualize and end up memorizing a list of autoimmune diseases along with their specific antibodies. This book has the potential to change this view. I read this book while doing a Rheumatology rotation during my senior year and at the time it was considered the Rheumatology Bible by the ...             Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) O. Richard Norton, Lawrence Chitwood Springer, 2008 It is said that astronomy is one of the few remaining fields in which amateurs can make a real contribution to science, and nowhere is this more true than in the field of meteors and meteorites. Although meteors are isolated and unpredictable, it is possible to predict when meteor showers - usually associated with old comets - are due; they last a couple of days, during which many meteors can be observed in a single night. Equipment for ...             Operative Dictations in General and Vascular Surgery: Operative Dictations Made Simple1 review Springer, 2003 This is a must have for a surgical resident. This book is very well written and has almost every operation that I could possibly perform as a surgical resident. It's also very brief and to the point. It was a great review of the operation right before going into the OR. Also, I have it downloaded onto my palm so searching for operations is easy and fast. I would highly recommend this product, especially for the general surgery intern.              search for books anesthesia, astronomy, computation, continuous, continuous-time, dictations, engineering, evidence-based, financial, inflation, information, introductory, manipulation, meteorites, modelling, multivariate, operative, practical, probability, radiation, recognition, rheumatic, statistical, statistics, stimulation, stimulation-guided, stochastic, technique, ultrasound, visualization books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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