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Using the open source R language, you can build powerful statistical models to answer many of your most challenging questions. R has traditionally been difficult for non-statisticians to learn, and most R books assume far too much knowledge to be of help. R for Everyone, Second Edition, is the solution. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience teaching new users, professional data scientist Jared P. Lander has written the perfect tutorial for anyone new to statistical programming and modeling. Organized to make learning easy and intuitive, this guide focuses on the 20 percent of R functionality you’ll need to accomplish 80 percent of modern data tasks. Lander’s self-contained chapters start with the absolute basics, offering extensive hands-on practice and sample code. You’ll download and install R; navigate and use the R environment; master basic program control, data import, manipulation, and visualization; and walk through several essential tests. Then, building on this foundation, you’ll construct several complete models, both linear and nonlinear, and use some data mining techniques. After all this you’ll make your code reproducible with LaTeX, RMarkdown, and Shiny. By the time you’re done, you won’t just know how to write R programs, you’ll be ready to tackle the statistical problems you care about most. Coverage includes: Explore R, RStudio, and R packages * Use R for math: variable types, vectors, calling functions, and more * Exploit data structures, including data.frames, matrices, and lists * Read many different types of data * Create attractive, intuitive statistical graphics * Write user-defined functions * Control program flow with if, ifelse, and complex checks * Improve program efficiency with group manipulations * Combine and reshape multiple datasets * Manipulate strings using R’s facilities and regular expressions * Create normal, binomial, and Poisson probability distributions * Build linear, generalized linear, and nonlinear models *Program basic statistics: mean, standard deviation, and t-tests * Train machine learning models * Assess the quality of models and variable selection * Prevent overfitting and perform variable selection, using the Elastic Net and Bayesian methods * Analyze univariate and multivariate time series data * Group data via K-means and hierarchical clustering * Prepare reports, slideshows, and web pages with knitr * Display interactive data with RMarkdown and htmlwidgets * Implement dashboards with Shiny * Build reusable R packages with devtools and Rcpp.

Get complete instructions for manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching datasets in Python. Updated for Python 3.6, the second edition of this hands-on guide is packed with practical case studies that show you how to solve a broad set of data analysis problems effectively. You’ll learn the latest versions of pandas, NumPy, IPython, and Jupyter in the process. Written by Wes McKinney, the creator of the Python pandas project, this book is a practical, modern introduction to data science tools in Python. It’s ideal for analysts new to Python and for Python programmers new to data science and scientific computing. Data files and related material are available on GitHub. Use the IPython shell and Jupyter notebook for exploratory computing * Learn basic and advanced features in NumPy (Numerical Python) * Get started with data analysis tools in the pandas library * Use flexible tools to load, clean, transform, merge, and reshape data * Create informative visualizations with matplotlib * Apply the pandas groupby facility to slice, dice, and summarize datasets * Analyze and manipulate regular and irregular time series data * Learn how to solve real-world data analysis problems with thorough, detailed examples.

The Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo provides a reference for the broad audience of developers and users of MCMC methodology interested in keeping up with cutting-edge theory and applications. The first half of the book covers MCMC foundations, methodology, and algorithms. The second half considers the use of MCMC in a variety of practical applications including in educational research, astrophysics, brain imaging, ecology, and sociology. The in-depth introductory section of the book allows graduate students and practicing scientists new to MCMC to become thoroughly acquainted with the basic theory, algorithms, and applications. The book supplies detailed examples and case studies of realistic scientific problems presenting the diversity of methods used by the wide-ranging MCMC community. Those familiar with MCMC methods will find this book a useful refresher of current theory and recent developments.

This text represents the first comprehensive treatment of neural networks from an engineering perspective. Thorough, well-organized, and completely up-to-date, it examines all the important aspects of this emerging technology. Neural Networks provides broad coverage of the subject, including the learning process, back propogation, radial basis functions, recurrent networks, self-organizing systems, modular networks, temporal processing, neurodynamics, and VLSI implementations. Chapter objectives, computer experiments, problems, worked examples, a bibliography, photographs, illustrations, and a thorough glossary reinforce key concepts. The author's concise and fluid writing style makes the material more accessible. For graduate-level neural network courses offered in the departments of Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science.Renowned for its thoroughness and readability, this well-organized and completely up-to-date text remains the most comprehensive treatment of neural networks from an engineering perspective. Thoroughly revised.

Nazmul Siddique, Hojjat Adeli ... 532 pages - Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (May, 2013) ... Language: English - ISBN-10: 1118337840 - ISBN-13: 978-1118337844 ...

Computational Intelligence: Synergies of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computing presents an introduction to some of the cutting edge technological paradigms under the umbrella of computational intelligence. Computational intelligence schemes are investigated with the development of a suitable framework for fuzzy logic, neural networks and evolutionary computing, neuro-fuzzy systems, evolutionary-fuzzy systems and evolutionary neural systems. Applications to linear and non-linear systems are discussed with examples. Key features: Covers all the aspects of fuzzy, neural and evolutionary approaches with worked out examples, MATLAB® exercises and applications in each chapter - Presents the synergies of technologies of computational intelligence such as evolutionary fuzzy neural fuzzy and evolutionary neural systems - Considers real world problems in the domain of systems modelling, control and optimization - Contains a foreword written by Lotfi Zadeh. Computational Intelligence: Synergies of Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computing is an ideal text for final year undergraduate, postgraduate and research students in electrical, control, computer, industrial and manufacturing engineering.