Giving a broad perspective of the field from numerous vantage points, Text Mining focuses on statistical methods for text mining and analysis. It examines methods to automatically cluster and classify text documents and applies these methods in a variety of areas, including adaptive information filtering, information distillation, and text search. The book begins with the classification of documents into predefined categories and then describes novel methods for clustering documents into groups that are not predefined. It concludes with various text mining applications that have significant implications for future research and industrial use.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series
Data Preparation & Mining
Machine Learning
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Professional

Emphasizing causation as a functional relationship between variables, this book provides comprehensive coverage on the basics of SEM. It takes readers through the process of identifying, estimating, analyzing, and evaluating a range of models. The author discusses the history and philosophy of causality and its place in science and presents graph theory as a tool for the design and analysis of causal models. He explains how the algorithms in SEM are derived and how they work, covers various indices and tests for evaluating the fit of structural equation models to data, and explores recent research in graph theory, path tracing rules, and model evaluation.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Scie
Quantitative Methods
Statistical Theory & Methods
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Focusing on both private- and public-key cryptographic algorithms, this book describes algorithmic methods with cryptographically relevant examples. After introducing modern cryptography and elementary number theory and algebra, it covers linear algebra, sieving, brute force, algorithms based on the birthday paradox, Hadamard–Fourier–Walsh transforms, lattice reduction, and Gröbner bases. The author also presents advanced applications, such as LFSR-based stream ciphers, lattice methods for cryptanalysis, elliptic curves, and index calculus methods. He includes some hints and solutions to the exercises as well as C code on http://www.joux.biz/algcrypt/
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Cryptography and Network Security Series
Cryptology
Combinatorics
Algorithms & Complexity
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Offering fascinating insight into how the financial system works and how the credit crisis arose, this book provides a clearly written, comprehensive account of the current credit crunch that is easily understandable to non-specialists. It explains how the financial system was drawn into the crunch and the issues that need to be addressed to prevent further disasters. The author supplies detailed descriptions on numerous specialist areas, including credit derivatives, structured finance, and the monoline insurance companies. He also explores accounting and financial regulation and discusses the legacy of the Great Depression and other historical events.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series
Finance
Financial Mathematics
Statistics
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Through theory and case studies, this book details how uncertainty and flexibility can be evaluated to assist in making better investment decisions in companies. It delivers an excellent balance of theory and practice in the area of investment decision making, demonstrates how financial and real options are related, and describes the theoretical underpinnings of both. The author presents case studies from diverse industries, including life sciences, pharmaceuticals, commodities, energy, technology, manufacturing, and financial services. He also looks at how organizations can become successful using a holistic framework that integrates uncertainty and flexibility.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Finance Series
Finance
Operations Research
Financial Mathematics
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Professional

Now with solutions to selected problems, this bestselling textbook presents the tools of combinatorics from an applied point of view. It focuses on three basic problems of combinatorics: counting, existence, and optimization problems. The text contains many examples from the biological, computer, and social sciences, including disease screening, genome mapping, satellite communication, search engines, telecommunications traffic, web data, sound systems, oil drilling, dynamic labor markets, data mining, and distributed computing. It also offers numerous references to the literature of combinatorics and its applications that enable readers to delve more deeply into the topics.
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Intelligent Systems
Combinatorics
Cryptology
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Drawing from the author’s own state-of-the-art research, this book examines the philosophical basis, motivation, theory, and design recommendations for the implementation of an ethical control and reasoning system in autonomous robot systems, taking into account the Laws of War and Rules of Engagement. It discusses how robots can ultimately be more humane than humans in the battlefield. The author addresses the issue of autonomous robots having the potential to make life-or-death decisions and provides examples that illustrate autonomous systems’ ethical use of force. He also includes the opinions of the public, researchers, policymakers, and military personnel on the use of lethality by autonomous systems.
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Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning
Security Services
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Professional

Bringing together all the relevant material to impart a clear understanding of how to analyze ROC curves, this book covers the fundamental theory as well as various special topics. It provides illustrative examples of the major methodological developments and includes as much of the mathematical theory as necessary without making the treatment too dense. The authors survey the uses made of the methodology across a range of different areas, from atmospheric science and geoscience to experimental psychology and sociology. They also list a number of websites from which software implementing the various techniques can be downloaded.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability
Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Data Preparation & Mining
Machine Learning
Reference

This third edition of a bestseller is now presented as a three-volume set, making it much more accessible and easier to use when searching for information. Keeping the format that made its predecessors so popular, this edition has been extensively expanded, revised, and updated. It now contains nearly 12,000 entries. Each article provides definitions, formulas, illustrations, web links, bibliographic information, and facts from mathematics, the sciences, and engineering. This new edition is written in an informal style, making it accessible to anyone who has an interest in mathematics. The three-volume set is beautifully bound with much improved typesetting and format.
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Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers
Encyclopedia
Professional

Containing many results that are new or exist only in recent research articles, this text portrays the theory of interest rate modeling as a three-dimensional object of finance, mathematics, and computation. It introduces all models with financial-economical justifications, develops options along the martingale approach, and handles option evaluations with precise numerical methods. Taking a top-down approach, the author shows readers how to build and use models. The text includes exercises and real-world examples, along with code, tables, and figures accessible on the author’s website. A solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics Series
Statistics
Finance
Financial Mathematics
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Undergraduate