• Title: From Algorithms to Z-Scores: Probabilistic and Statistical Modeling in Computer Science
• Author(s) Norm Matloff
• Publisher: Orange Grove Texts Plus (September 24, 2009); eBook (Creative Commons Edition, 2013)
• License(s): CC BY-ND 3.0 US
• Paperback: 274 pages
• eBook: PDF (543 pages)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1616100362
• ISBN-13: 978-1616100360
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This is a textbook for a course in mathematical probability and statistics for computer science students. Computer science examples are used throughout, in areas such as: computer networks; data and text mining; computer security; remote sensing; computer performance evaluation; software engineering; data management; etc.

• Norm Matloff is an American professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He was formerly a statistics professor at that university, and thus approaches the subject matter here as both a statistician and computer scientist.

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