Computer Age Statistical Inference, Student Edition: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science

ISBN-13: 9781108823418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 506 str.

California) Hastie Trevor (Stanford University

Opis

Now in paperback and fortified with exercises, this brilliant, enjoyable text demystifies data science, statistics and machine learning.

Spis treści

Part I. Classic Statistical Inference: 1. Algorithms and inference; 2. Frequentist inference; 3. Bayesian inference; 4. Fisherian inference and maximum likelihood estimation; 5. Parametric models and exponential families; Part II. Early Computer-Age Methods: 6. Empirical Bayes; 7. James–Stein estimation and ridge regression; 8. Generalized linear models and regression trees; 9. Survival analysis and the EM algorithm; 10. The jackknife and the bootstrap; 11. Bootstrap confidence intervals; 12. Cross-validation and Cp estimates of prediction error; 13. Objective Bayes inference and Markov chain Monte Carlo; 14. Statistical inference and methodology in the postwar era; Part III. Twenty-First-Century Topics: 15. Large-scale hypothesis testing and false-discovery rates; 16. Sparse modeling and the lasso; 17. Random forests and boosting; 18. Neural networks and deep learning; 19. Support-vector machines and kernel methods; 20. Inference after model selection; 21. Empirical Bayes estimation strategies; Epilogue; References; Author Index; Subject Index.

O autorze

Efron, Bradley Bradley Efron is Max H. Stein Professor, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. He has held visiting faculty appointments at Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Imperial College London. Efron has worked extensively on theories of statistical inference, and is the inventor of the bootstrap sampling technique. He received the National Medal of Science in 2005, the Guy Medal in Gold of the Royal Statistical Society in 2014, and the International Prize in Statistics in 2019. Hastie, Trevor Trevor Hastie is John A. Overdeck Professor, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. He is coauthor of The Elements of Statistical Learning (2009), a key text in the field of modern data analysis. He is also known for his work on generalized additive models, and for his contributions to the R computing environment. Hastie was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018, received the Sigillum Magnum from the University of Bologna in 2019, and the Leo Breiman award from the American Statistical Association in 2020.