A Gentle Introduction To Effective Computing In Quantitative Research

Author : Harry J. Paarsch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034115
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gentle Introduction to Effective Computing in Quantitative Research written by Harry J. Paarsch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to using modern software effectively in quantitative research in the social and natural sciences. This book offers a practical guide to the computational methods at the heart of most modern quantitative research. It will be essential reading for research assistants needing hands-on experience; students entering PhD programs in business, economics, and other social or natural sciences; and those seeking quantitative jobs in industry. No background in computer science is assumed; a learner need only have a computer with access to the Internet. Using the example as its principal pedagogical device, the book offers tried-and-true prototypes that illustrate many important computational tasks required in quantitative research. The best way to use the book is to read it at the computer keyboard and learn by doing. The book begins by introducing basic skills: how to use the operating system, how to organize data, and how to complete simple programming tasks. For its demonstrations, the book uses a UNIX-based operating system and a set of free software tools: the scripting language Python for programming tasks; the database management system SQLite; and the freely available R for statistical computing and graphics. The book goes on to describe particular tasks: analyzing data, implementing commonly used numerical and simulation methods, and creating extensions to Python to reduce cycle time. Finally, the book describes the use of LaTeX, a document markup language and preparation system.

Author : Harry J. Paarsch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262333996
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gentle Introduction to Effective Computing in Quantitative Research written by Harry J. Paarsch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to using modern software effectively in quantitative research in the social and natural sciences. This book offers a practical guide to the computational methods at the heart of most modern quantitative research. It will be essential reading for research assistants needing hands-on experience; students entering PhD programs in business, economics, and other social or natural sciences; and those seeking quantitative jobs in industry. No background in computer science is assumed; a learner need only have a computer with access to the Internet. Using the example as its principal pedagogical device, the book offers tried-and-true prototypes that illustrate many important computational tasks required in quantitative research. The best way to use the book is to read it at the computer keyboard and learn by doing. The book begins by introducing basic skills: how to use the operating system, how to organize data, and how to complete simple programming tasks. For its demonstrations, the book uses a UNIX-based operating system and a set of free software tools: the scripting language Python for programming tasks; the database management system SQLite; and the freely available R for statistical computing and graphics. The book goes on to describe particular tasks: analyzing data, implementing commonly used numerical and simulation methods, and creating extensions to Python to reduce cycle time. Finally, the book describes the use of LaTeX, a document markup language and preparation system.

Author : Christopher P. Adams
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000282384
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Microeconometrics with R written by Christopher P. Adams and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the assumptions underlying the algorithms rather than their statistical properties Presents cutting-edge analysis of factor models and finite mixture models. Uses a hands-on approach to examine the assumptions made by the models and when the models fail to estimate accurately Utilizes interesting real-world data sets that can be used to analyze important microeconomic problems Introduces R programming concepts throughout the book. Includes appendices that discuss many of the concepts introduced in the book, as well as measures of uncertainty in microeconometrics.

Author : WIlliam J. Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351414593
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistical Computing written by WIlliam J. Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors have assembled the "best techniques from a great variety of sources, establishing a benchmark for the field of statistical computing." ---Mathematics of Computation ." The text is highly readable and well illustrated with examples. The reader who intends to take a hand in designing his own regression and multivariate packages will find a storehouse of information and a valuable resource in the field of statistical computing.

Author : Dan Stanescu
Publisher : Chapman & Hall/CRC
ISBN 13 : 9780429262876
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gentle Introduction to Scientific Computing written by Dan Stanescu and published by Chapman & Hall/CRC. This book was released on 2022 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scientific Computation has established itself as a stand-alone area of knowledge in the border area between computer science and applied mathematics. Nonetheless, its interdisciplinary character cannot be denied: its methodologies are increasingly used in a wide variety of branches of science and engineering. A Gentle Introduction to Scientific Computing intends to serve a very broad audience of college students across a variety of disciplines. It aims to expose its readers to some of the basic tools and techniques used in computational science, with a view to helping them understand what happens 'behind the scenes' when simple tools such as solving equations, plotting and interpolation are used. To make the book as practical as possible, the authors explore their subject both from a theoretical, mathematical perspective and from an implementation-driven, programming perspective. Features Takes a middle ground approach between theoretical book and implementation Suitable reading for a broad range of students in STEM disciplines, and could be the primary text for a first course in scientific computing Introduces mathematics majors, without any prior computer science exposure, to numerical methods All mathematical knowledge needed beyond Calculus (and the more useful Calculus notation and concepts) is introduced in the text to make it self-contained"--

Author : Victor Eijkhout
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257992546
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to High Performance Scientific Computing written by Victor Eijkhout and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a textbook that teaches the bridging topics between numerical analysis, parallel computing, code performance, large scale applications.

Author : Divakar Viswanath
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262036290
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific Programming and Computer Architecture written by Divakar Viswanath and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of programming models relevant to scientists explained, with an emphasis on how programming constructs map to parts of the computer. What makes computer programs fast or slow? To answer this question, we have to get behind the abstractions of programming languages and look at how a computer really works. This book examines and explains a variety of scientific programming models (programming models relevant to scientists) with an emphasis on how programming constructs map to different parts of the computer's architecture. Two themes emerge: program speed and program modularity. Throughout this book, the premise is to "get under the hood," and the discussion is tied to specific programs. The book digs into linkers, compilers, operating systems, and computer architecture to understand how the different parts of the computer interact with programs. It begins with a review of C/C++ and explanations of how libraries, linkers, and Makefiles work. Programming models covered include Pthreads, OpenMP, MPI, TCP/IP, and CUDA.The emphasis on how computers work leads the reader into computer architecture and occasionally into the operating system kernel. The operating system studied is Linux, the preferred platform for scientific computing. Linux is also open source, which allows users to peer into its inner workings. A brief appendix provides a useful table of machines used to time programs. The book's website (https://github.com/divakarvi/bk-spca) has all the programs described in the book as well as a link to the html text.

Author : Mark H. Holmes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783031224317
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Scientific Computing and Data Analysis written by Mark H. Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides an introduction to numerical computing and its applications in science and engineering. The topics covered include those usually found in an introductory course, as well as those that arise in data analysis. This includes optimization and regression-based methods using a singular value decomposition. The emphasis is on problem solving, and there are numerous exercises throughout the text concerning applications in engineering and science. The essential role of the mathematical theory underlying the methods is also considered, both for understanding how the method works, as well as how the error in the computation depends on the method being used. The codes used for most of the computational examples in the text are available on GitHub. This new edition includes material necessary for an upper division course in computational linear algebra.

Author : Mark C. Marino
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262357437
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Code Studies written by Mark C. Marino and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that we must read code for more than what it does—we must consider what it means. Computer source code has become part of popular discourse. Code is read not only by programmers but by lawyers, artists, pundits, reporters, political activists, and literary scholars; it is used in political debate, works of art, popular entertainment, and historical accounts. In this book, Mark Marino argues that code means more than merely what it does; we must also consider what it means. We need to learn to read code critically. Marino presents a series of case studies—ranging from the Climategate scandal to a hactivist art project on the US-Mexico border—as lessons in critical code reading. Marino shows how, in the process of its circulation, the meaning of code changes beyond its functional role to include connotations and implications, opening it up to interpretation and inference—and misinterpretation and reappropriation. The Climategate controversy, for example, stemmed from a misreading of a bit of placeholder code as a “smoking gun” that supposedly proved fabrication of climate data. A poetry generator created by Nick Montfort was remixed and reimagined by other poets, and subject to literary interpretation. Each case study begins by presenting a small and self-contained passage of code—by coders as disparate as programming pioneer Grace Hopper and philosopher Friedrich Kittler—and an accessible explanation of its context and functioning. Marino then explores its extra-functional significance, demonstrating a variety of interpretive approaches.

Author : Sally A. Fincher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108756212
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research written by Sally A. Fincher and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an authoritative introduction to Computing Education research written by over 50 leading researchers from academia and the industry.