Numerical and Statistical Methods With Scilab for Science and Engineering

By Gilberto Urroz and Giberto Urroz

Numerical and statistical methods with the free software SCILAB (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588983056
• ISBN13: 9781588983053
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Createspace
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

at first blush

I went for volume 2 because of the sections on probability and statistical inference. At a quick look of some specific examples I see a lot of utility in the applications in these areas. He starts with the basic concepts and seems to develop it from there as far into simulation. And the great thing is you can get at this subject without having to rack your brains programming everything.

A must-have as a second book in Numerical Methods

If your school wants to shift from Matlab to an open-source alternative, consider take this book as your 2nd title in Numerical Methods. Together with a more formal, mathematic-oriented textbook, your students have a broad coverage for the subject. Examples and exercises are well chosen; source code is written in a consistent way; Prof. Urroz homepage offers additional material; take a look at it. There is only one drawback: both books are necessary to a full coverage. This brings an extra cost. However, may be your course will need only one of them. We adopted both these books in our course, anyway.