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 | | Mathematical Statistics with MATHEMATICA by Colin Rose, Murray D. Smith ISBN-10: 9780387952345 ISBN-10: 0-387-95234-9 ISBN-13: 9780387952345 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-95234-5 Hardcover 2002-03-08 Springer Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book and software package presents a unified approach for doing mathematical statistics with Mathematica. The mathStatica software empowers the student with the ability to solve difficult problems. The professional statistician will be able to tackle tricky multivariate distributions, generating functions, inversion theorems, symbolic maximum likelihood estimation, unbiased estimation, and the checking and correcting of textbook formulae. This is the ideal companion for researchers and students in statistics, econometrics, engineering, physics, psychometrics, economics, finance, biometrics, and the social sciences. The mathStatica CD-ROM includes: mathStatica: The Applications Pack for mathematical statistics, custom Mathematica palettes, live interactive book that is identical to the printed text, online help, trail version of Mathematica 4.0. Colin Rose is Director of the Theoretical Research Institute (Sydney). He has published in leading journals on computer algebra systems and their applications to statistics, economics, and finance. Murry Smith is a senior lecturer in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at the University of Sydney. In 1998-99, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to visit the University of Munich. He publishes in the fields of statistics, econometric theory, and computer algebra systems. WINNER of The MDTech Prize for Best Software Contribution at COMPSTAT 2002! | ||
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Total con. You need to spend another $585, and hope they update for version 6 This is really a software manual rather than a book. Unfortunately, in order to use the software you will have to use a really old edition of Mathematica, or use version 5.2 and spend another $585 for the upgrade to make the software work. It is not $89 as some state - that is only for student/academic price. Just to make matters worst, the $585 upgrade only works with 5.2, not 6, but they claim they will give you a free upgrade when it appears. I feel that they should make a version available for no extra charge that works with current versions of Mathematica. Mathematica 5 (which the software does not work with), was released in 2003. There is no excuse for keeping the book in print, updating the software, but not making the updates available free of charge. I could accept updating only sufficient to work (no enhancements), but this is just a con. I will be contacting Springer (the publishers) to complain. Will others do likewise? | ||
Great stuff (with caveats)... This review is more about the software that accompanies the book rather than the chapters in the book itself. (which of course, is the whole point of the book). I bought this product about 6 months ago, while I was in the middle of writing a couple of papers and found this to be a great tool. This is one of those rare products that makes useful but complicated things simple and easy. Even those of us who are gifted enough not to be turned off by symbolic prose will agree that there is a certain resistance to explore and learn something that's got mathematical symbols all over it - this piece of software will help overcome exactly that, not to mention how good Mathematica is by itself. Having said that, if you are not comfortable say, at the level of "Statistical Inference" by Casella and Berger (one of the best books on the topic ever written), then this will do much less for you than you read in its reviews. Also I see from quite a few previous reviews that there is resentment at the authors not being totally upfront about the fact that it requires at least another 100$ (student version) to harness the power of this software totally. The professional version will set you back by about $600. Pros: Great software. It does amazing things that used to take me hours by hand. Seemingly ugly or unsolvable problems are easily attacked. Great customer service - I have emailed them a few times both about installation AND STATISTICAL questions and they are great with both. Seem like a pretty well run shop. Despite other reviews, the price is worth it. Of course, if price is too much of a concern and you have all the time in the world, you can program these in Mathematica yourself - but these pre-programmed functions are much better. (I have tried). Cons: Not for a novice or statistical enthusiast. Please read the title - It does say "Mathematical Statistics" for Mathematica. So make sure you are at least at the level of Hogg/Craig or Casella/Berger etc. As of 3/08, this is not compatible with Mma 6.0, but the website says they will be releasing the next version in 1Q 08, may be by the end of the month. | ||
One for practitioners This book fills a niche nicely. I cheerfully recommend it to applied researchers who, like me, learned their statistics haphazardly in the context of a discipline like economics or biology. The book works rather like a cookbook should, offering up detailed recipes for a great variety of problems, while the software delivers tools which tackle those problems in a no-nonsense style. Would any of this appeal to true, or budding, affionados of mathematical statistics? Hmmm. As other reviewers have suggested, there is indeed something unfortunate about the marketing of this book. It is not much without the software, and you can't license the full-version of the software without first having bought the book. But these are really second-order gripes. If you are trying to extend the statistical capabilities of Mathematica at a practical level, the total package amply justifies the price. | ||
Powerful software great for learning and experimenting The bottom line is that this is a very well written book, but more importantly the associated software is *very powerful*. The software is a *symbolic* solver for mathematical statistics, not merely a numerical solver. You will appreciate the great value of this book and software once you understand this difference. Great if you want to learn, experiment and apply mathematical statistics. I highly recommend it. | ||
OK book. mathStatica, a software bundled with this book, is probably a very good software. I was not very happy with the way the authors and the publisher structured the mathStatica license, particularly with newer and improved versions of Mathematica and the limited use of the software. The Mathematica descriptions were useful with the exercises beneficial. | ||