NR, the 3rd edition
Talking about limits in Numerical Recipes in my PyIMSL post, I couldn’t resist checking materials, particularly updates in the new edition of Numerical Recipes by Press, et al. (2007).
The NR website: http://www.nr.com/
Some noticeable additions are
- chi-square with small numbers of counts,
- various statistical applications including Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical learning (classification and clustering– KD-tree, model based clustering, nonparametric multivariate data analysis), computational geometry, sparse matrices, kriging, and graphs,
- improved functions including incomplete gamma and beta functions,
- wavelet on the interval, and
- information-theoretic properties of distributions.
I’m sure you’ll find more interesting topics to your liking that are added in this new edition. Maximum Entropy Image Restoration, I didn’t know this topic was in Numerical Recipes in other editions. The third edition looks very modern to me compared to the second edition. You’ll enjoy it.
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