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Here is a thorough and authoritative guide to the latest version of the S language and its programming environment. Programming With Data describes a new and greatly extended version of S, written by
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A two-part volume containing a comprehensive description of the theory of entire and meromorphic functions of one complex variable and its applications, and a detailed review of recent investigations
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This book summarizes developments related to a class of methods called Stochastic Decomposition (SD) algorithms, which represent an important shift in the design of optimization algorithms. Unlike tra
Explicates the mathematical theory of regularization methods and gives an account of currently available results about regularization methods for both linear and nonlinear ill-posed problems. Overview
Ultrasonic Methods of Non-destructive Testing is essential reading for all those concerned with the non-destructive testing industry as well as undergraduate students of materials science, metallurgy,
The aim of this monograph is to present a survey of modern statistical techniques applied to educational and psychological testing. A theme that runs through this book is that of making inferences abo
This book discusses a variety of problems which are usually treated in a second course on the theory of functions of one complex variable, the level being gauged for graduate students. It treats sever
Variational methods provide a versatile framework for several branches of theoretical mechanics. For problems in dynamics, variational formulations provide a powerful alternative to vector methods.
This volume contains a unique, systematic presentation of the general theory of differential equations on complex manifolds. The six chapters deal with questions concerning qualitative (asymptotic
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This book results from the Herculean task of gathering,evaluating and analyzing criminological data for a period inthe history of Japan, the Showa Era, during which even therecording of data
This book is concerned with the static and dynamic analysis of structures. Specifi- cally, it uses the stiffness formulated matrix methods for use on computers to tackle some of the fundamental proble
Expands psychological and some biological theories of the origins of crime, its varieties, and to effects of social and legal responses to it. Based primarily on previous statistical studies. Annotati
This monograph reviews some of the work that has been done for longitudi- nal data in the rapidly expanding field of nonparametric regression. The aim is to give the reader an impression of the basic
Since the first edition of this book, geometrical methods in the theory of ordinary differential equations have become very popular and some progress has been made partly with the help of computers. M
Now approaching its tenth year, this hugely successful book presents an unusual attempt to publicise the field of Complex Dynamics. The text was originally conceived as a supplemented catalogue to the
Multi-grid methods are the most efficient tools for solving elliptic boundary value problems. The reader finds here an elementary introduction to multi-grid algorithms as well as a comprehensive conve
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