
Reviews:
"A compact guide to the voluminous literature on optimisation, numerical analysis, and computational statistics. This is no small achievement." - Statistical Software Newsletter in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
"…an excellent text. It has the potential to be enormously influential across the social sciences…It should be required reading for everyone who performs statistical computing at the advanced level…" - Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2005
Other reviews: Technometrics Review, ACM Review, SciTech Book News Review, Choice Review, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis Review, Journal of Statistical Software Review, Statistical Methods in Medical Research Review, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation Review.