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Author Efron, Bradley, author

Title Computer age statistical inference : algorithms, evidence, and data science / Bradley Efron, Stanford University, California ; Trevor Hastie, Stanford University, California
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016
©2016
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 475 pages) : illustrations
Series Institute of mathematical statistics monographs ; 5
Institute of Mathematical Statistics monographs ; 5
Contents Algorithms and inference -- Frequentist inference -- Bayesian inference -- Fisherian inference and maximum likelihood estimation -- Parametric models and exponential families -- Empirical Bayes -- Jame-Stein estimation and ridge regression -- Generalized linear models and regression trees -- Survival analysis and the EM algorithm -- The jackknife and the bootstrap -- Bootstrap confidence intervals -- Cross-validation and Cp estimates of prediction error -- Postwar statistical inference and methodology -- Large-scale hypothesis testing and FDRs -- Sparse modeling and the lasso -- Random forests and boosting -- Neural networks and deep learning -- Support-vector machines and kernel methods -- Inference after model selection -- Empirical Bayes estimation strategies
Summary The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology, both in scope and in influence. 'Big data', 'data science', and 'machine learning' have become familiar terms in the news, as statistical methods are brought to bear upon the enormous data sets of modern science and commerce. How did we get here? And 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 and bootstrap, random forests, neural networks, Markov chain Monte Carlo, inference after model selection, and dozens more. The distinctly modern approach integrates methodology and algorithms with statistical inference. The book ends with speculation on the future direction of statistics and data science. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical reference and index
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Subject Mathematical statistics.
Form Electronic book
Author Hastie, Trevor, author
ISBN 1316576531 (electronic bk.)
9781316576533 (electronic bk.)
(hardback ;) (alk. paper)
(hardback ;) (alk. paper)