Applied Wavelet Analysis with S-PLUS [Paperback]

Andrew Bruce (Author), Hong-Ye Gao (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0387947140 | ISBN-13: 978-0387947143 | Publication Date: June 20, 1996 | Edition: 1

Using a visual data analysis approach, wavelet concepts are explained in a way that is intuitive and easy to understand. Furthermore, in addition to wavelets, a whole range of related signal processing techniques such as wavelet packets, local cosine analysis, and matching pursuits are covered, and applications of wavelet analysis are illustrated -including nonparametric function estimation, digital image compression, and time-frequency signal analysis. This book and software package is intended for a broad range of data analysts, scientists, and engineers. While most textbooks on the subject presuppose advanced training in mathematics, this book merely requires that readers be familiar with calculus and linear algebra at the undergraduate level.

Product Details

• Paperback: 338 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (June 20, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0387947140
• ISBN-13: 978-0387947143
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,647,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book, if you have S-plus and authors' wavelet toolkit, March 24, 2000

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This review is from: Applied Wavelet Analysis with S-PLUS (Paperback)

A nice treatment of data analysis using wavelets. Very nonmathematical and intended to be used while seated at the computer. I was a little disappointed to see that it was so tightly bound to the authors' commercial S+Wavelets software, which seems to render it pretty much useless if you or your institution doesn't have S-plus and S+Wavelets. (R implementation, anyone?)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do Not Bother, July 16, 2007

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Leicester Dedlock (Ames, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Applied Wavelet Analysis with S-PLUS (Paperback)

Prerequisites: Knowledge of calculus and some knowledge of linear algebra.

This is a rather informal book on wavelet analysis. It is fairly comprehensive despite its length, covering quite a few types of wavelet analyses, transforms, and algorithms. It is also explained fairly clearly but the theory is not given enough emphasis. As the other reviewer stated, this book unfortunately relies on a commercial S-PLUS package. In addition to the fact that it requires commercial software, the functions which are used are very high level, so the details that the reader should be made aware of are hidden and if you were to implement the theory in a non-commercial software package, you would pretty much have to start from scratch. Also, they sometimes let the code get in the way of the theory, that is they often spend more time discussing the package and its applications than on the concepts that you would need to know if you didn't have this high-level software available. The book does a fairly good job early on in terms of mathematics and technical details, but it begins skimping on these things far to much later in the book telling the reader to "use this function" instead of giving the reader plenty of information that will be useful to them if they don't have this package handy. Also, though the book includes plenty of applications, it does not give you enough information to determine when each of these analyses would be useful in other real world applications. So the applications are not made to seem truly tied into the concepts, even if the analyses applied to them are fitting. It's more like "this works for this example" instead of "this works for this CLASS of problems". They do take the latter approach sometimes, but not a whole lot.

The writing style may be clear, but the sum of its flaws makes this book essentially useless.