Fitting Equations to Data: Computer Analysis of Multifactor Data, 2nd edition

Daniel, Cuthbert, and Fred S. Wood

ISBN 10: 0471053708 / ISBN 13: 9780471053705

Published by John Wiley and Sons, 1980

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Hardcover; 2nd edition; surplus library copy with the usual stampings; reference number taped to spine; fading and shelf wear to the cover; corners bumped; otherwise in good condition with clean text and tight binding. Seller Inventory # 75319

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fitting Equations to Data: Computer Analysis...

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: UsedGood

Edition: 2nd Edition

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Synopsis:

Helps any serious data analyst with a computer to recognize the strengths and limitations of data, to test the assumptions implicit in the least squares methods used to fit the data, to select appropriate forms of the variables, to judge which combinations of variables are most influential, and to state the conditions under which the fitted equations are applicable. This edition includes numerous extensions and new devices such as component and component-plus-residual plots, cross verification with a second sample, and an index of required x-precision; also, the search for better subset equations is enlarged to cover 262,144 alternatives. The methods described have been applied in agricultural, environmental, management, marketing, medical, physical, and social sciences. Mathematics is kept to the level of college algebra.

About the Author:

About the authors CUTHBERT DANIEL is a Consulting Engineering Statistician. He has specialized in applications of statistics to industrial experimentation since 1947. He has worked extensively in design of experiments and regression analysis. His numerous papers have appeared in Technometrics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Chemical Engineering Progress, and other journals. He read the R.A. Fisher Memorial Lecture in 1971 and the W.J. Youden Memorial Address in 1974. He was awarded the S.S. Wilks Memorial Medal in 1974. FRED S. WOOD is Senior Operations Research Analyst with the Standard Oil Company with clients in research and development, marketing, manufacturing, production, transportation, finance, and management. His articles have appeared in Technometrics, the Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers, S.A.E. Transactions, the Oil and Gas Journal, and the Industrial and Chemical Engineering Journal. He holds a number of patents in the fields of both process and product development.