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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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

The 2020 MCQ for Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society is 0.84.

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Book Review

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MathSciNet review: 4119619
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Book Information:

Author: Martin J. Wainwright
Title: High-dimensional statistics: A non-asymptotic viewpoint
Additional book information: Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics, Vol. 48, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019, xvii+552 pp., ISBN 978-1-108-49802-9, US $79.99

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  • Review Information:

    Reviewer: Po-Ling Loh
    Affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1300 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706
    Email: ploh@stat.wisc.edu
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 57 (2020), 509-514
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/bull/1692
    Published electronically: January 28, 2020
    Review copyright: © Copyright 2020 American Mathematical Society