Matrices for Statistics - Softcover

Healy, M. J. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198522487 ISBN 13: 9780198522485

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This book presents the fundamentals of multiple regression, linear modelling, multivariate analysis, and other statistical methods for the elucidation of complicated data. The author uses the basic terms of matrix algebra to provide a clear and accessible guide for biologists, engineers, students of statistics, and others concerned with data analysis. Numerical methods for matrices are described and the book contains a set of algorithms to make such methods generally available.

About this title

About the Author:

M. J. R. Healy, Professor of Medical Statistics, University of London.

Review:

From reviews of the hardback edition

`The book should be prescribed for all postgraduate students of statistics, before they do anything else at all.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'

`a very worthwhile addition to anyone's shelf.' Teaching Statistics

`...a good reference book for the serious student...' Journal of the American Statistical Association

`...this should be a valuable handbook for a great variety of statistical `users'.' Short Book Reviews of the International Statistics Institute

`...a very worthwhile addition to anyone's shelf.' Teaching Statistics

'Statisticians will, I am sure, find this book a very useful summary of the matrices commonly found in statistical work... For such people this volume represents a concise and inexpensive manual on the subject.' Journal of Agricultural Science

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0198522487
• ISBN 13: 9780198522485
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 100