Saturday, May 06, 2006

Email from Amazon

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

As someone who has purchased books by Kurt Vonnegut, you might like to know that "Optimal State Estimation : Kalman, H Infinity, and Nonlinear Approaches " will be released soon. You can pre-order your copy by following the link below.

Optimal State Estimation : Kalman, H Infinity, and Nonlinear Approaches
Dan Simon
List Price : $95.00
Price : $95.00

To learn more about Optimal State Estimation : Kalman, H Infinity, and Nonlinear Approaches , please visit the following page at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0471708585/ref=pe_snp_585

2 Comments:

At 12:03 PM, May 07, 2006, Blogger Richard Mason said...

At first I thought that the recommendation was really because I had bought some Kalman-filter-related book from Amazon in the past... but I don't appear to have ever bought such a book.

New theory: Amazon bought some other marketing information, e.g., they found my name on a list of attendees at a control conference, leading them to believe I might buy a book on Kalman filters. However, the email template is based on the premise that all recommendations are because of something you bought at Amazon.

 
At 11:43 PM, May 22, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

If it was all done statistically, then Amazon needs to read up on some of the statistics books.

The kalman filtering stuff is too advanced for them. They need to start with correlation vs. causation.

 

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