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With more and more practical problems of applied mathematics appearing in different disciplines, such as chemistry, biology, geology, management and economics, to mention just a few, the demand for numerical computation has considerably increased. These problems frequently have no analytical solution or the exact result is time-consuming to derive. To solve these problems, numerical techniques are used to approximate the result. This chapter introduces matrix algebra, numerical integration, differentiation and root finding.
The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in the temple before an attack.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Härdle, W.K., Okhrin, O., Okhrin, Y. (2017). Numerical Techniques. In: Basic Elements of Computational Statistics. Statistics and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55336-8_2
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