Scientific Data Analysis
Subtitle: An Introduction to Overdetermined Systems
By: by Richard L. Branham
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781461279815; 9781461233626
Subjects: Computer science; Data structures (Computer science)
Description: This monograph considers overdetermined systems, i.e., inconsistent systems with more equations than unknowns, in scientific data reduction. Although not a text on statistics, numerical methods, or matrix computations, all three enter into the discussion. The book is intended for the scientist or engineer who has gathered data that needs to be modelled by a mathematical system, perhaps linear or non-linear, and to be solved to obtain best estimates of various parameters. Programs and subroutines, mostly in FORTRAN, a few in BASIC, and one in C, illustrate many of the techniques presented.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Properties of Floating-Point Numbers; title: Matrices, Norms, and Condition Numbers; title: Sparse Matrices; title: Introduction to Overdetermined Systems; title: Linear Least Squares; title: The L1 Method; title: Nonlinear Methods; title: The Singular Value Decomposition; title: Index.