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Numerical Recipes 3rd Edition: The Art of Scientific Computing 7 reviews
William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, ...
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Essential book on scientific computing
+ Continues to improve
+ Quickly switching your matlab routines to cpp
+ The perfect book
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Practical Methods of Optimization 6 reviews
R. Fletcher
Wiley, 2000
Paperback reprint of 2nd Ed. from 1987
+ Invaluable insight
+ Best book
+ Excellent intermediate resource
+ A classic and must-have for researchers using optimization
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Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) 29 reviews
Micheline Kamber Jiawei Han
Morgan Kaufmann, 2006
Great book for data mining
+ efficient, if technically a bit shallow
+ Good introduction on Data Mining
+ Augustine Nsang: Data Mining Book Purchase
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Statistical Methods: The Geometric Approach (Springer Texts in Statistics)4 reviews
David J. Saville, Graham R. Wood
Springer, 1997
Statistical Insight Using Geometry
+ A must read for intuitive understanding of statistical theory
+ Good but limited
+ very interesting book
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Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis (6th Edition) 24 reviews
Richard A. Johnson, Dean W. Wichern
Prentice Hall, 2007
excellent book
There have been many good theoretical texts on multivariate analysis including Anderson, Eaton and Gnandesikan. Tabachnick has written a popular applied text for the social sciences. Yet for many years this has been considered the best applied text. That is because the authors understand the theory ...
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Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)26 reviews
Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, ...
Wiley-Interscience, 2000
excellent revision of a classical text on statistical pattern recognition
+ Great product & service
The 1973 book by Duda and Hart was a classic. It surveyed the literature on pattern classification and scene analysis and provided the practitioner with wonderful insight and exposition of the subject. In the intervening 28 years the field has exploded and there has been an enormous increase in ...
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Applied logistic regression (Wiley Series in probability and statistics)9 reviews
David W. Hosmer, Stanley Lemeshow
Wiley-Interscience Publication, 2000
great applied book on logistic regression
+ Non-Fiction
+ read this before going for it
+ Advanced practical cookbook
+ Excellent book for learning logistic regression details
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Classification and Regression Trees6 reviews
Leo Breiman, Jerome Friedman, ...
Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1984
the book that made tree classification algorithms work better through the concept of pruning
+ The Original CART Resource
+ the book that made tree classification rigorous
+ A must have for all serious decision trees researchers
+ Instructive and Powerful
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Categorical Data Analysis (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)7 reviews
Alan Agresti
Wiley-Interscience, 2002
the masterpiece by the master
+ The source to understand categorical data and more
+ Dense and comprehensive
+ The one to have
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Time Series Analysis: Forecasting & Control (3rd Edition)4 reviews
George Box, Gwilym M. Jenkins, ...
Prentice Hall, 1994
recent update of classic text
+ revision of a classic on time series modeling
+ Mathematical, Theoretical, Practical.
+ Time Series for Hydrologic Engineers
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Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)3 reviews
Mamdouh Refaat
Morgan Kaufmann, 2006
Numerical recipes for Data Preparation
+ Easily one of the best books on the subject
+ The best data prep book so far
It is well known that the majority of time spent doing data mining is in the data preparation. With this book, Dr. Refaat has given analysts the tools they need to perform the often laborious task of data preparation. If you are familiar with the Numerical Recipes series of books (and if you ...
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Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management28 reviews
Michael J. A. Berry, Gordon S. Linoff
*Wiley Computer Publishing, 2004
Excellent introduction
+ Excellent book for Data Mining
+ Very Interesting book
+ A must-have book for your technical library
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Time Series Analysis 27 reviews
James Douglas Hamilton
Princeton University Press, 1994
Excellent Book
+ time series for econometricians especially
+ Excellent book in time series
+ No complaints.
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Logistic Regression Using the SAS System: Theory and Application7 reviews
Paul D. Allison
WA (Wiley-SAS), 2001
Allison's logistic regression book
+ SAS logistic regression
+ Ordinal Regression
+ Must have book for the SAS user
+ Show me how
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An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods7 reviews
Nello Cristianini, John Shawe-Taylor
Cambridge University Press, 2000
This is it !
+ More for mathematicians than computer scientist
+ A little dry.
+ Excellent book
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Data Preparation for Data Mining (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)11 reviews
Dorian Pyle
Morgan Kaufmann, 1999
The best book on this subject
+ Still very much worth reading in 2007
+ Excellent book
+ Must read book for data mining
+ Excellent book; a must for those who do data mining.
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Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)3 reviews
Mamdouh Refaat
Morgan Kaufmann, 2006
Numerical recipes for Data Preparation
+ Easily one of the best books on the subject
+ The best data prep book so far
It is well known that the majority of time spent doing data mining is in the data preparation. With this book, Dr. Refaat has given analysts the tools they need to perform the often laborious task of data preparation. If you are familiar with the Numerical Recipes series of books (and if you ...
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Logistic Regression Using the SAS System: Theory and Application7 reviews
Paul D. Allison
WA (Wiley-SAS), 2001
Allison's logistic regression book
+ SAS logistic regression
+ Ordinal Regression
+ Must have book for the SAS user
+ Show me how
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Time Series Analysis27 reviews
James Douglas Hamilton
Princeton University Press, 1994
Excellent Book
+ time series for econometricians especially
+ Excellent book in time series
+ No complaints.
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Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)29 reviews
Micheline Kamber Jiawei Han
Morgan Kaufmann, 2006
Great book for data mining
+ efficient, if technically a bit shallow
+ Good introduction on Data Mining
+ Augustine Nsang: Data Mining Book Purchase
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