Rating: ****
Tags: Lang:en
Added: November 23, 2020
Modified: November 5, 2021
Summary
The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion
of statistical methodology, both in scope and in influence.
'Big data', 'data science', and 'machine learning' have
become familiar terms in the news, as statistical methods are
brought to bear upon the enormous data sets of modern science
and commerce. How did we get here? And where are we going?
This book takes us on an exhilarating journey through the
revolution in data analysis following the introduction of
electronic computation in the 1950s. Beginning with classical
inferential theories - Bayesian, frequentist, Fisherian -
individual chapters take up a series of influential topics:
survival analysis, logistic regression, empirical Bayes, the
jackknife and bootstrap, random forests, neural networks,
Markov chain Monte Carlo, inference after model selection,
and dozens more. The distinctly modern approach integrates
methodology and algorithms with statistical inference. The
book ends with speculation on the future direction of
statistics and data science. **