Inge Koch

'Big data' poses challenges that require both classical multivariate methods and contemporary techniques from machine learning and engineering. This modern text equips you for the new world - integrating the old and the new, fusing theory and practice and bridging the gap to statistical learning. The theoretical framework includes formal statements that set out clearly the guaranteed 'safe operating zone' for the methods and allow you to assess whether data is in the zone, or near enough. Extensive examples showcase the strengths and limitations of different methods with small classical data, data from medicine, biology, marketing and finance, high-dimensional data from bioinformatics, functional data from proteomics, and simulated data. High-dimension low-sample-size data gets special attention. Several data sets are revisited repeatedly to allow comparison of methods. Generous use of colour, algorithms, Matlab code, and problem sets complete the package. Suitable for master's/graduate students in statistics and researchers in data-rich disciplines.

Born In Borneo is the memoir of Inge Koch, who was born in 1921 to German parents who owned rubber plantations in the Dutch East Indies. The book chronicles her years growing up in an exotic area, and her friendships and contacts with people of many different nationalities and stations in life. Inge Koch was interned with other German citizens in a Dutch camp when Germany invaded Holland in 1940. She then was transferred to Shanghai, China, where she remained until the end of the war. After living several years in Australia, she married the American soldier she had met in China. She emigrated to the United States in 1949. This book descibes the adventures and trials she experienced during her first 28 years.