The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology both in scope & in influence ' Big data' 'data science' & 'machine learning' have become familiar terms in the news as statistical methods are brought to bear upon the enormous data sets of modern science & commerce How did we get here? & where are we going? This book takes us on an exhilarating journey through the revolution in data analysis following the introduction of electronic computation in the 1950s 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 & bootstrap random forests neural networks Markov chain Monte Carlo inference after model selection & dozens more The distinctly modern approach integrates methodology & algorithms with statistical inference The book ends with speculation on the future direction of statistics & data science

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Computer Networks A Systems Approach Fifth Edition explores the key principles of computer networking with examples drawn from the real world of network & protocol design Using the Internet as the primary example this best-selling & classic textbook explains various protocols & networking technologies The systems-oriented approach encourages students to think about how individual network components fit into a larger complex system of interactions This book has a completely updated content with expanded coverage of the topics of utmost importance to networking professionals & students including P2P wireless network security & network applications such as e-mail & the Web IP telephony & video streaming & peer-to-peer file sharing There is now increased focus on application layer issues where innovative & exciting research & design is currently the center of attention Other topics include network design & architecture; the ways users can connect to a network; the concepts of switching routing & internetworking; end-to-end protocols; congestion control & resource allocation; & end-to-end data Each chapter

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The new ARM Edition of Computer Organization & Design features a subset of the ARMv 8-A architecture which is used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies assembly language computer arithmetic pipelining memory hierarchies & IO With the post-PC era now upon us Computer Organization & Design moves forward to explore this generational change with examples exercises & material highlighting the emergence of mobile computing & the Cloud Updated content featuring tablet computers Cloud infrastructure & the ARM (mobile computing devices) & x 86 (cloud computing) architectures is included An online companion Web site provides links to a free version of the DS-5 Community Edition (a free professional quality tool chain developed by ARM) as well as additional advanced content for further study appendices glossary references & recommended reading ...