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If you want to go by names
and titles, one of my Ph.D. dissertation
advisors was J. Cohon. Since
you are well acquainted with
CMU ...! But I'm judging Moore's materials
based on the materials, not his
employment history. I have nothing against Moore;
it's not about Moore or me.
Instead, it's about what
Moore wrote. Google, CMU CS aside, sorry to tell
you, or maybe it's good news,
think of the good news, instead
of that A. Moore material, there
is much, much higher quality
material going way back, e.g.,
already by, say, 1970. There's
G. Dantzig, R. Gomory, R. Bellman,
G. Nemhauser, Ford and Fulkerson,
P. Wolfe (e.g., Wolfe dual in
quadratic programming), R. Bixby,
H. Kuhn, A. Tucker (prof of the
prof that was the Chair of
my Graduate Board orals),
D. Bertsekas,
J. von Neumann, J. Nash,
R. Rockafellar,
W. Cunningham,
and many, many more.
None of these people is in
computer science. E.g., there are stacks of
books on multivariate
statistics with
linear discriminate analysis; there's
log-linear for categorical data analysis;
there's controlled Markov processes and
continuous time stochastic optimal
control, with, say, measurable selection,
scenario aggregation. etc.; there's lots of
material on resampling, the bootstrap (I
have published a paper in essentially that
topic); there's sufficient statistics from
the Radon-Nikodym theorem; and much more. Okay, just in regression
and multi-variate statistics,
just from my
bookshelf, there's: William W. Cooley and Paul R. Lohnes,
'Multivariate Data Analysis', John Wiley
and Sons, New York, 1971. Maurice M. Tatsuoka, 'Multivariate
Analysis: Techniques for Educational and
Psychological Research', John Wiley and
Sons, 1971. C. Radhakrishna Rao, 'Linear Statistical
Inference and Its Applications: Second
Edition', ISBN 0-471-70823-2, John Wiley
and Sons, New York, 1967. N. R. Draper and H. Smith, 'Applied
Regression Analysis', John Wiley and Sons,
New York, 1968. Leo Breiman, Jerome H. Friedman, Richard
A. Olshen, Charles J. Stone,
'Classification and Regression Trees',
ISBN 0-534-98054-6, Wadsworth &
Brooks/Cole, Pacific Grove, California,
1984. And their mathematical notation is
quite precise. In simple terms, what Moore is
doing in those notes is
mostly, not all, some
very fine, old wine, corrupted,
and in new bottles with new
labels. E.g., the 22 pages
on game theory without mentioning
just the simple linear programming
solution is gentleman D- work. Readers would be seriously
mislead and ill-served not
to hear that the Moore material
is inferior, really, not good.
We're talking grade C, gentleman
B-. Think of the good news: There's
much, much better material long
on the shelves of the research
libraries although rarely as
computer science. That's just the way it is. People
here on HN should be aware of that
situation. |