I agree with the the comments below on "Numerical recipes".
We developed some commercial software using the code and
tried to get a licence. They never responded to our corresponce :-)
We also mailed them fixes to some bugs !!! but never heard anything.
So we threw their code away and wrote our own...
it was a waste of time using the book.
Kim
On Thursday, 25 November 1999 6:41, Peter Dalgaard BSA [SMTP:p.dalgaard at
biostat.ku.dk] wrote:> Clive Jenkins <clive.jenkins at clara.net> writes:
>
> > An excellent on-line book for the more advanced reader, especially
> > chapters 14 and 15 that deal with Statistics and Data Modeling:
> > "Numerical Recipes in C: the Art of Scientific Computing"
(ISBN
> > 0-521-43108-5) Copyright (C) 1988-1992 by Cambridge University Press.
A
> > Fortran version is also available, and both exist in PostScript and
PDF.
> > http://www.ulib.org/webRoot/Books/Numerical_Recipes/
>
> Um, not to put too fine a point on it: That is not a book I'd
> recommend, and particularly not for the statistics sections. It's a
> reasonable introductory text to numerical analysis subjects, but
> according to people who really know the stuff, it is not to be trusted
> in the details (there's an online reference to the criticism, but I
> can't remember it offhand), and their software licencing is....
(don't
> get me started!)
>
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