Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models.(Book Reviews)(Book Review) From: Technometrics | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: Frey, Michael | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Statistical Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models, by Chong GU, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 0-387-95353-1, xiii + 289 pp., $79.95.

Statistical modeling as viewed in this book is a passage from "unbiased" but noisy data to a model with reduced noise but potentially some bias. Models are considered philosophically as sets of constraints on the data with at one extreme, constraint-free, unbiased models, such as the empirical distribution for a probability density, and at the other ex...

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