Bücher von Joaquim P. Marques de Sa

Intended for anyone needing to apply statistical analysis to a large variety of science and engineering problems, this book shows how to use SPSS, MATLAB, STATISTICA and R for data description, statistical inference, classification and regression, factor analysis, survival data and directional statistics.

This book explains the minimum error entropy (MEE) concept applied to data classification machines. Discusses theoretical results, offers a clustering algorithm using a MEE-like concept, and includes tests, evaluation experiments and comparative applications.

It guides the reader in an almost chronological trip through the fascinating and amazing laws of chance, omnipresent in the natural world and in our daily lives. Finally the author discusses possibilities and limitations of learning the laws of a Universe immersed in chance events.