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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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ISSN 1088-9485 (online) ISSN 0273-0979 (print)

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Book Review

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Book Information:

Authors: O. Calin and C. Udriste
Title: Geometric modeling in probability and statistics
Additional book information: Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-07778-9 (print), 978-3-319-07779-6 (online), $79.99

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Stanislav A. Molchanov
    Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, UNCC, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223; and National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Russian Federation
    Email: smolchan@uncc.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 55 (2018), 109-111
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1582
    Published electronically: May 26, 2017
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2017 American Mathematical Society