This chapter provides a survey of the main methods in nonuniform random variate
generation, and highlights recent research on the subject. Classical paradigms such as …

The problem of searching the elements of a set that are close to a given query element
under some similarity criterion has a vast number of applications in many branches of …

Since the development of SIMS and LA-ICP-MS technologies in the 1980s and 1990s,
single grain U–Pb dating of detrital zircon has quickly become the most popular technique …

Children learn effortlessly by example and exhibit a remarkable capacity of generalization.
The field of machine learning, on the other hand, stumbles along clumsily in search of …

Clarifies modern data analysis through nonparametric density estimation for a complete
working knowledge of the theory and methods Featuring a thoroughly revised presentation …

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

Applied Nonparametric Regression is the first book to bring together in one place the
techniques for regression curve smoothing involving more than one variable. The computer …

Data from camera traps that record the time of day at which photographs are taken are used
widely to study daily activity patterns of photographed species. It is often of interest to …

Pattern recognition presents one of the most significant challenges for scientists and
engineers, and many different approaches have been proposed. The aim of this book is to …

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made
more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation …