The AstroStat Slog » Numerical Recipe http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 [Quote] The “Bible” http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/quote-the-bible/ http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/quote-the-bible/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:03:30 +0000 hlee http://hea-www.harvard.edu/AstroStat/slog/2008/quote-the-bible/

Although it is a great read, Numerical Recipe[1] is no more suitable as a statistical bible than Ptolemy is for astronomy.

J. Horowitz, Page 255 of Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy II (Eds. G.J.Babu and E.D.Feigelson), Springer, 1997

I wonder if the new edition of Numerical Recipe could change the name Ptolemy to someone or some book from the 20th century.

  1. W.H.Press, S.A.Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, and B.P.Flannery, 2nd ed., 1992
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