I am looking for a good text for such a course; I have taught this many times, but I have been dissatisfied with the texts I have used, not that I am likely to really like another one.
The aim of this course is not to carry out routine analyses, but to convey the ideas needed to find good methods for computing in non-routine situations. The level of the course is that the student has had a graduate level course in probability, and also in statistical theory, and is on speaking terms with linear algebra, real analysis, and complex analysis, but need not have had any previous course in numerical analysis; I do not believe in cookbook before theory. -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
