April 1998
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 11m
English
The Practical Performance Analyst by Neil Gunther, McGraw-Hill, 1997, provides an easy-to-follow guide to the parts of performance modeling and queuing theory that you really need to know.
The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis by Raj Jain provides comprehensive coverage of techniques for experimental design, measurement, simulation, and performance modeling.
Statistical Models In S by John M. Chambers and Trevor J. Hastie is quite specific to the S-PLUS statistics package, but it gives an excellent insight into the range of techniques available in modern statistics and how the combination of statistics and numerical modeling can be used to make sense of data.