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 Sloppy production makes this frustrating at best... Sep 10, 2009
I was a fan of the first volume of this series, and purchased the second one to learn about optimization and fitting. But from page 1, there are mistakes throughout the text. Many of these involve omission of spaces between words, but unfortunately others involve equations, including missing integral signs. Unlike the text, it is not always obvious from the format that the equations are incorrect, a serious liability both for students and for researchers.
 Numerical & Statistical Methods with SCILAB . . . Nov 12, 2008
A comprehensive book on numerical & statistical methods with SCILAB, useful as a desktop reference. The sample codes were good but let down by errors. The print too contains errors particularly the setting for mathematical equations.
Overall it is still usable and a useful resource for experienced SCILAB user. The errors may be too daunting for novice users.
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 at first blush May 22, 2007
I went for volume 2 because of the sections on probability and statistical inference. At a quick look of some specific examples I see a lot of utility in the applications in these areas. He starts with the basic concepts and seems to develop it from there as far into simulation.
And the great thing is you can get at this subject without having to rack your brains programming everything.
 A must-have as a second book in Numerical Methods Jan 11, 2007
If your school wants to shift from Matlab to an open-source alternative, consider take this book as your 2nd title in Numerical Methods. Together with a more formal, mathematic-oriented textbook, your students have a broad coverage for the subject.
Examples and exercises are well chosen; source code is written in a consistent way; Prof. Urroz homepage offers additional material; take a look at it.
There is only one drawback: both books are necessary to a full coverage. This brings an extra cost. However, may be your course will need only one of them.
We adopted both these books in our course, anyway.
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