Domain-Specific Languages in R : Advanced Statistical Programming /: Advanced Statistical Programming. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas Mailund.
• Authors: Mailund, Thomas
• Contents: Intro; Table of Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Chapter 1: Introduction; Who This Book Is For; Domain-Specific Languages; Chapter 2: Matrix Expressions; Parsing Expressions; Meta-Programming Parsing; Expression Manipulation; Optimizing Multiplication; Expression Rewriting; Expression Evaluation; Chapter 3: Components of a Programming Language; Text, Tokens, Grammars, and Semantics; Specifying a Grammar; Designing Semantics; Chapter 4: Functions, Classes, and Operators; The S3 Object-Oriented Programming System; Objects and Classes; Generic Functions. Operator OverloadingGroup Generics; Precedence and Evaluation Order; Code Blocks; Chapter 5: Parsing and Manipulating Expressions; Quoting and Evaluating; Exploring Expressions; Manipulating Expressions; Chapter 6: Lambda Expressions; Anonymous functions; Experiments with Alternatives to the Syntax; Don't Do This at Home; Chapter 7: Environments and Expressions; Scopes and Environments; Default Parameters, Lazy Evaluation, and Promises; Quotes and Non-standard Evaluation; Chapter 8: Tidy Evaluation; Quosures; Quasi-quoting; Chapter 9: List Comprehension. Chapter 10: Continuous-Time Markov ChainsConstructing the Markov Chain; Constructing a Rate Matrix; Traces; Computing Likelihoods; Chapter 11: Pattern Matching; Constructors; Pattern Matching; Lists; Search Trees; Chapter 12: Dynamic Programming; Parsing Expressions; Evaluating Expressions; Fixing the Evaluation Environment; Chapter 13: Conclusion; References; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Springer Science and Business Media Apress
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 257 pages)
• Subjects: 005.13; Computer science; Domain-specific programming languages; Domain-specific programming languages; Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Computers -- Programming -- General; Computers -- Mathematical & Statistical Software; Computers -- Database Management -- General; Artificial intelligence; Computer programming / software development; Maths for computer scientists; Databases; Artificial intelligence; Big data; Computers -- Programming Languages -- General; Programming & scripting languages: general; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484235881; 1484235886
• Related ISBNs: 9781484235874
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed June 27, 2018).
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