By John Dewan
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These are all of the statistics for the 2003 Major League Baseball Season. Read more
Saturday, July 30, 2011
The 2004 Bill James Handbook (2003 statistics) (Paperback)
By John Dewan
Friday, July 29, 2011
Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples (Springer Texts in Statistics) (Hardcover)
By Robert H. Shumway
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Time Series Analysis and Its Applications presents a balanced and comprehensive treatment of both time and frequency domain methods with accompanying theory. Numerous examples using nontrivial data illustrate solutions to problems such as discovering natural and anthropogenic climate change, evaluating pain perception experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging, and monitoring a nuclear test ban treaty. The book is designed to be useful as a text for graduate level students in the physical, biological and social sciences and as a graduate level text in statistics. Some parts may also serve as an undergraduate introductory course. Theory and methodology are separated to allow presentations on different levels. In addition to coverage of classical methods of time series regression, ARIMA models, spectral analysis and state-space models, the text includes modern developments including categorical time series analysis, multivariate spectral methods, long memory series, nonlinear models, resampling techniques, GARCH models, stochastic volatility, wavelets and Monte Carlo Markov chain integration methods. The third edition includes a new section on testing for unit roots and the material on state-space modeling, ARMAX models, and regression with autocorrelated errors have been expanded.
Also new to this edition is the enhanced use of the freeware statistical package R. In particular, R code is now included in the text for nearly all of the numerical examples. Data sets and additional R scripts are now provided in one file that may be downloaded via the World Wide Web. This R supplement is a small compressed file that can be loaded easily into R making all the data sets and scripts available to the user with one simple command. The website for the text includes the code used in each example so that the reader may simply copy-and-paste code directly into R. Appendix R, which is new to this edition, provides a reference for the data sets and our R scripts that are used throughout the text. In addition, Appendix R includes a tutorial on basic R commands as well as an R time series tutorial. Read more
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Statistics Workbook For Dummies (Paperback)
By Deborah J. Rumsey
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A friendly, hands-on guide to the dreaded field of statistics
Competence in and understanding statistics is important to success in such fields as business and science, and is often a requirement for college students in a variety of programs. This handy guide complements author Deborah Rumsey's Statistics For Dummies by presenting exercises and fully worked solutions that let students and professionals practice and sharpen their statistical skills and understanding of the subject. Offering a simple, straightforward examination of the process and products of statistical computation-as well as a wealth of tips and tricks-Statistics Workbook For Dummies is an invaluable resource for reinforcing the concepts and practice of statistics. Read more
Saturday, July 23, 2011
ENGR 111/112- Track A (Paperback)
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Engineering with Excel (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
By Ronald W. Larsen
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Based on Excel 2007, Engineering with Excel, 3e takes a comprehensive look at using Excel in engineering. This book focuses on applications and is intended to serve as both a textbook and a reference for students. Read more
Modern Elementary Statistics (12th Edition) (Hardcover)
By John E. Freund
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This solid text presents ideas and concepts more clearly for students who have little or no background in statistics. The Twelveth Edition retains all the elements and style that educators nationwide have come to expect—clear prose, excellent problems and precise presentation of mathematics involved—while eliminating some of the computational drudgery.
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Financial Econometrics: From Basics to Advanced Modeling Techniques (Frank J. Fabozzi Series) (Kindle Edition)
By Frank J. Fabozzi
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A comprehensive guide to financial econometrics
Financial econometrics is a quest for models that describe financial time series such as prices, returns, interest rates, and exchange rates. In Financial Econometrics, readers will be introduced to this growing discipline and the concepts and theories associated with it, including background material on probability theory and statistics. The experienced author team uses real-world data where possible and brings in the results of published research provided by investment banking firms and journals. Financial Econometrics clearly explains the techniques presented and provides illustrative examples for the topics discussed.
Svetlozar T. Rachev, PhD (Karlsruhe, Germany) is currently Chair-Professor at the University of Karlsruhe. Stefan Mittnik, PhD (Munich, Germany) is Professor of Financial Econometrics at the University of Munich. Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA, CFP (New Hope, PA) is an adjunct professor of Finance at Yale University’s School of Management. Sergio M. Focardi (Paris, France) is a founding partner of the Paris-based consulting firm The Intertek Group. Teo Jasic, PhD, (Frankfurt, Germany) is a senior manager with a leading international management consultancy firm in Frankfurt.A comprehensive guide to financial econometrics
Financial econometrics is a quest for models that describe financial time series such as prices, returns, interest rates, and exchange rates. In Financial Econometrics, readers will be introduced to this growing discipline and the concepts and theories associated with it, including background material on probability theory and statistics. The experienced author team uses real-world data where possible and brings in the results of published research provided by investment banking firms and journals. Financial Econometrics clearly explains the techniques presented and provides illustrative examples for the topics discussed.
Svetlozar T. Rachev, PhD (Karlsruhe, Germany) is currently Chair-Professor at the University of Karlsruhe. Stefan Mittnik, PhD (Munich, Germany) is Professor of Financial Econometrics at the University of Munich. Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA, CFP (New Hope, PA) is an adjunct professor of Finance at Yale University’s School of Management. Sergio M. Focardi (Paris, France) is a founding partner of the Paris-based consulting firm The Intertek Group. Teo Jasic, PhD, (Frankfurt, Germany) is a senior manager with a leading international management consultancy firm in Frankfurt. Read more
Monday, July 18, 2011
Stat Geek Baseball, the Best Ever Book 2011 (Paperback)
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It's been water cooler debate since the turn of the last century. Who are the best all-time pitchers, batters, and players in baseball overall, and for each team in baseball history. In Stat Geek Baseball, the Best Ever Book 2011, you find that out and more, according to the staff at baseballevaluation.com, all updated through the 2010 season. Who had the best regular season? Postseason? Who had the best career? This year a new addition, the Hall of Fame position ranks, plus a list of current players who are moving toward that list. There are hundreds of players included, plus explanations of the Top Ten. Want to know who the top Yankees are? There are Best Ever lists of the top players by every team from 1871 through today's thirty franchises. You'll also get unique stats from the baseballevaluation.com stat rating model you can't get anywhere else, plus regular stats, too! Great for stat geeks and regular baseball fans from coast to coast. Read more
Friday, July 15, 2011
Numbers Rule Your World : The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do (Kindle Edition)
By Kaiser Fung
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WHAT ARE THE ODDS YOU'LL WIN THE LOTTERY? How long will your kids wait in line at Disney World? Who decides that “standardized tests“ are fair? Why do highway engineers build slow-moving ramps? What does it mean, statistically, to be an “Average Joe“? NUMBERS RULE YOUR WORLD In the popular tradition of eye-opening bestsellers like Freakonomics, The Tipping Point, and Super Crunchers, this fascinating book from renowned statistician and blogger Kaiser Fung takes you inside the hidden world of facts and figures that affect you every day, in every way. These are the statistics that rule your life, your job, your commute, your vacation, your food, your health, your money, and your success. This is how engineers calculate your quality of living, how corporations determine your needs, and how politicians estimate your opinions. These are the numbers you never think about-even though they play a crucial role in every single aspect of your life. What you learn may surprise you, amuse you, or even enrage you. But there's one thing you won't be able to deny: Numbers Rule Your World… "For those who have anxiety about how organization data-mining is impacting their world, Kaiser Fung pulls back the curtain to reveal the good and the bad of predictive analytics." --Ian Ayres,Yale professor and author of Super Crunchers: Why Thinking By Numbers is the New Way to Be Smart "A book that engages us with stories that a journalist would write, the compelling stories behind the stories as illuminated by the numbers, and the dynamics that the numbers reveal." --John Sall, Executive Vice President, SAS Institute
Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind (Kindle Edition)
By Tim Groseclose PhD
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Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slant of media outlets. He does this by measuring the political content of news, as a way to measure the PQ, or “political quotient” of voters and politicians.
Among his conclusions are: (i) all mainstream media outlets have a liberal bias; and (ii) while some supposedly conservative outlets—such the Washington Times or Fox News’ Special Report—do lean right, their conservative bias is less than the liberal bias of most mainstream outlets. Groseclose contends that the general leftward bias of the media has shifted the PQ of the average American by about 20 points, on a scale of 100, the difference between the current political views of the average American, and the political views of the average resident of Orange County, California or Salt Lake County, Utah. With Left Turn readers can easily calculate their own PQ—to decide for themselves if the bias exists. This timely, much-needed study brings fact to this often overheated debate. Read moreThursday, July 14, 2011
Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure (Hardcover)
By Craig Robinson
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How many miles does a baseball team travel in one season?
How tall would A-Rod's annual salary be in pennies?
What does Nolan Ryan have to do with the Supremes and Mariah Carey?
You might never have asked yourself any of these questions, but Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Fly Ball will make you glad to know the answers.
Baseball, almost from the first moment Robinson saw it, was more than a sport. It was history, a nearly infinite ocean of information that begged to be organized. He realized that understanding the game, which he fell in love with as an adult, would never be possible just through watching games and reading articles. He turned his obsession into a dizzyingly entertaining collection of graphics that turned into an Internet sensation.
Out of Robinson's Web site, www.flipflopflyball.com, grew this book, full of all-new, never-before-seen graphics. Flip Flop Fly Ball dives into the game's history, its rivalries and absurdities, its cities and ballparks, and brings them to life through 120 full-color graphics. Statistics-the sport's lingua franca-have never been more fun.
(By the way, the answers: about 26,000 miles, at least if the team in question is the 2008 Kansas City Royals; 3,178 miles; they were the artists atop the Billboard Hot 100 when Ryan first and last appeared in MLB games.)
Craig Robinson is, among other things, an Englishman and a New York Yankees fan with a soft spot for the Colorado Rockies and a man-crush on Ichiro. Last season he played outfield for the Prenzlauer Berg Piranhas in the Berlin Mixed Softball League (.452/.548/.575). His previous books include Atlas, Schmatlas: A Superior Atlas of the World and Fun Fun Fun.
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2011 Black Belt Six Sigma Comprehensive Audio Review Course; 5 Hours, 5 Audio CDs Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Reference and Teaching Course SSBB Lean Six Sigma 5 Hours, 5 Audio CDs (Audio CD)
By Joseph Cervantes-SSMBB
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Comprehensive 5 Hours, 5 Audio CDs Black Belt Six Sigma Study Course to learn and teach six sigma black belt certification. Fluff-free presentation covering only essential "need to know" information. No Filler. A Black Belt should demonstrate team leadership, understand team dynamics and assign team member roles and responsibilities. Black Belts have a thorough understanding of all aspects of the DMAIC model in accordance with Six Sigma principles. Learn Fast and efficiently with 5 audio cds in one self contained, self paced learning system. Instructor is professional speaker, program recorded in studio. Study system Based only on the American Society for Quality certification requirements. Enterprise-wide Deployment; Organizational Process Management and Measures; Team Management; Define; Measure; Analyze; Improve; Control; Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Frameworks and Methodologies Fluff-free presentation covering only essential "need to know" information to be tested. No Filler. 5 Hours, 5 Audio CDs, Plays in all cd players Read more
2011 Six Sigma Audio Review Course All in One: Green Belt Six Sigma, Yellow Belt Six Sigma, Black Belt Six Sigma Comprehensive Review Course; 5 Hours, 5 Audio CDs Lean Six Sigma 5 Hours, 5 Audio CDs (Audio CD)
By Joseph Cervantes-SSMBB
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Comprehensive 5 Hours, 5 Audio CDs Six Sigma All in One review course to learn and teach six sigma certification. Course starts with green belt teaching, proceeds into yellow belt and ends with black belt teachings. Fluff-free presentation covering only essential "need to know" information. No Filler. Complete Six Sigma certification should demonstrate team leadership, understand team dynamics and assign team member roles and responsibilities. Black Belts have a thorough understanding of all aspects of the DMAIC model in accordance with Six Sigma principles. Learn Fast and efficiently with 5 audio cds in one self contained, self paced learning system. Instructor is professional speaker, program recorded in studio. Study system Based only on the American Society for Quality certification requirements. Enterprise-wide Deployment; Organizational Process Management and Measures; Team Management; Define; Measure; Analyze; Improve; Control; Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Frameworks and Methodologies Fluff-free presentation covering only essential "need to know" information to be tested. No Filler. 5 Hours, 5 Audio CDs, Plays in all cd players Read more
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics (Paperback)
By Steve Woloshin
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Every day we are bombarded by television ads, public service announcements, and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks. But many of these messages are incomplete, misleading, or exaggerated, leaving the average person misinformed and confused. Know Your Chances is a lively, accessible, and carefully researched book that can help consumers sort through this daily barrage by teaching them how to interpret the numbers behind the messages. In clear and simple steps, the authors--all of them staff physicians at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in White River Junction, Vermont--take the mystery out of medical statistics. By learning to understand the medical statistics and knowing what questions to ask, readers will be able to see through the hype and find out what--if any--credible information remains. The book's easy-to-understand charts will help ordinary people put their health concerns into perspective.This short, reader-friendly volume will foster communication between patients and doctors and provide the basic critical-thinking skills necessary for navigating today's confusing health landscape. Read more
Monday, July 11, 2011
Applied Econometrics with R (Use R) (Paperback)
By Christian Kleiber
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This book provides an introduction to the R system for users with a background in economics. It covers a variety of regression models (beginning with the classical linear regression model estimated by ordinary least quares,) regression diagnostics and robustness issues, the nonlinear models of microeconomics (Logit, Probit, Tobit, and further models), time series and time series econometrics (including unit roots and cointegration). Read more
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Protein Evolution (Paperback)
By László Patthy
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The flood of information on gene and protein sequences from the genome projects has revolutionzed molecular and evolutionary biology and led to the rapid development of the science called genomics. Reliable prediction of the function of a novel gene/protein requires complex computational analysis of genomic and protein sequence information, which exploit the principles governing the evolution of protein structure and function.
This book aims to provide an up-to-date summary of the principles of protein evolution and discusses both the methods available to analyse the evolutionary history of proteins and to predict their structure-function relationships. Protein Evolution is intended for senior undergraduates and graduate students taking courses in protein structure and evolution, as well as bioinformatics. It will also be a useful supplement for students taking wider courses in molecular evolution, as well as a valuable resource for professionals in the area of functional genomics. Read more
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Statistics, Student Solutions Manual: Principles and Methods (Paperback)
By Richard Arnold Johnson
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Easy to read, easy to understand
Now revised with updated exercises, Johnson and Bhattacharyya's Fifth Edition of Statistics: Principles and Applications once again offers an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand introduction to statistics. The authors use real-world examples, fresh hands-on exercises, and crystal clear explanations to motivate students to explore the powerful ideas of modern statistics.
Fresh exercises
Exercises and data sets are updated throughout for currency. Each major section and chapter in the text ends with a set of exercises that provides students with the opportunity to practice the ideas they just learned. Data sets are available on the book's website at www.wiley.com/college/johnson.
Engaging applications
A wide variety of timely example applications throughout the text connect statistics to real-life problems. Extended Statistics in Context examples reveal the value of understanding statistics. This Fifth Edition features new screen shots and keystrokes for MINITAB, Excel, and TI-83 integrated into the text examples, as appropriate, as well as new technology manuals for MINITAB, Excel, and TI-83 on the book's website.
A student-friendly approach
Featuring an engaging writing style with easy-to-follow explanations, this text makes statistics accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines. Johnson and Bhattacharyya help students understand the meaning behind key statistical methods, appreciate the underlying logic of statistics, and recognize the possible pitfalls of statistical analysis. Read more
Friday, July 8, 2011
SPSS 14.0 Guide to Data Analysis (Paperback)
By M. J. Noru?is
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The SPSS 14.0 Guide to Data Analysis is a friendly introduction to both data analysis and SPSS. Easy-to-understand explanations and in-depth content make this guide both an excellent supplement to other statistics texts and a superb primary text for any introductory data analysis course. With the book, you get a jump-start on describing data, testing hypotheses, and examining relationships using SPSS. The goal of this book is to provide an unintimidating introduction to data analysis and to SPSS. This edition focuses on topics that interest today's students-in particular, the role of the Internet in society. It is designed for use with SPSS 14.0, including the Student Version. A data CD is included with this book.
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Read moreContemporary Social Research Methods Using MicroCase, InfoTrac Version (with Workbook and Revised CD-ROM) (Paperback)
By Michael Corbett
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This fully integrated text/workbook/software package lets students experience the challenge and excitement of doing real social research. The textbook provides a highly readable introduction to the fundamental processes and techniques of contemporary research - without the usual overload of obscure terms and rarely used methods. From the beginning of the textbook, discussions of data analysis are integrated with explanations of the research process. In this way, students understand the purpose behind - and the end result of - the techniques they learn. They stay focused on the "big picture." The accompanying workbook, written by Michael Corbett and Lynne Roberts, allows students to receive hands-on training and practical experience in doing social research. This collection of computer-based exercises requires students to think like social scientists. They work through the same questions, problems, and issues that researchers face. Social Research Using MicroCase provides the flexibility for a course, whether it follows a "lecture-and-test" format or includes independent research projects. Read more
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Statistics, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
By Robert A. Donnelly
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Not a numbers person? No problem!
This new edition is aimed at high school and college students who need to take statistics to fulfill a degree requirement and follows a standard statistics curriculum. Readers will find information on frequency distributions; mean, median, and mode; range, variance, and standard deviation; probability; and more.
—Emphasizes Microsoft Excel for number-crunching and computations
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (Paperback)
By John Allen Paulos
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Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it.
Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.
This is the book that made "innumeracy" a household word, at least in some households. Paulos admits that "at least part of the motivation for any book is anger, and this book is no exception. I'm distressed by a society which depends so completely on mathematics and science and yet seems to indifferent to the innumeracy and scientific illiteracy of so many of its citizens."
But that is not all that drives him. The difference between our pretensions and reality is absurd and humorous, and the numerate can see this better than those who don't speak math. "I think there's something of the divine in these feelings of our absurdity, and they should be cherished, not avoided."
Paulos is not entirely successful at balancing anger and absurdity, but he tries. His diatribes against astrology, bad math education, Freud, and willful ignorance are leavened with jokes, mathematical or the sort (he claims) favored by the numerate.
It remains to be seen if Innumeracy will indeed be able, as Hofstadter hoped, to "help launch a revolution in math education that would do for innumeracy what Sabin and Salk did for polio"--but many of the improvements Paulos suggested have come to pass within 10 years. Only time will tell if the generation raised on these new principles is more resistant to innumeracy--and need only worry about being incomputable. --Mary Ellen Curtin Read more
Thursday, July 7, 2011
The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
By David Salsburg
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An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world.
At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that tea poured into milk tastes different from milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds of the group. But one man, Ronald Fisher, proposes to scientifically test the hypothesis. There is no better person to conduct such an experiment, for Fisher is a pioneer in the field of statistics.
The Lady Tasting Tea spotlights not only Fisher's theories but also the revolutionary ideas of dozens of men and women which affect our modern everyday lives. Writing with verve and wit, David Salsburg traces breakthroughs ranging from the rise and fall of Karl Pearson's theories to the methods of quality control that rebuilt postwar Japan's economy, including a pivotal early study on the capacity of a small beer cask at the Guinness brewing factory. Brimming with intriguing tidbits and colorful characters, The Lady Tasting Tea salutes the spirit of those who dared to look at the world in a new way.
Science is inextricably linked with mathematics. Statistician David Salsburg examines the development of ever-more-powerful statistical methods for determining scientific truth in The Lady Tasting Tea, a series of historical and biographical sketches that illuminate without alienating the mathematically timid. Salsburg, who has worked in academia and industry and has met many of the major players he writes about, shares his subjects' enthusiasm for problem solving and deep thinking. His sense of excitement drives the prose, but never at the expense of the reader; if anything, the author has taken pains to eliminate esoterica and ephemera from his stories. This might frustrate a few number-head readers, but the abundant notes and references should keep them happy in the library for weeks after reading the book.
Ultimately, the various tales herein are unified in a single theme: the conversion of science from observational natural history into rigorously defined statistical models of data collection and analysis. This process, usually only implicit in studies of scientific methods and history, is especially important now that we seem to be reaching the point of diminishing returns and are looking for new paradigms of scientific investigation. The Lady Tasting Tea will appeal to a broad audience of scientifically literate readers, reminding them of the humanity underlying the work. --Rob Lightner Read more
Statistics II for Dummies (Paperback)
By Deborah J. Rumsey
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The ideal supplement and study guide for students preparing for advanced statistics
Packed with fresh and practical examples appropriate for a range of degree-seeking students, Statistics II For Dummies helps any reader succeed in an upper-level statistics course. It picks up with data analysis where Statistics For Dummies left off, featuring new and updated examples, real-world applications, and test-taking strategies for success. This easy-to-understand guide covers such key topics as sorting and testing models, using regression to make predictions, performing variance analysis (ANOVA), drawing test conclusions with chi-squares, and making comparisons with the Rank Sum Test. Read more
Monday, July 4, 2011
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Paperback)
By Leonard Mlodinow
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With the born storyteller's command of narrative and imaginative approach, Leonard Mlodinow vividly demonstrates how our lives are profoundly informed by chance and randomness and how everything from wine ratings and corporate success to school grades and political polls are less reliable than we believe.
By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives us the tools we need to make more informed decisions. From the classroom to the courtroom and from financial markets to supermarkets, Mlodinow's intriguing and illuminating look at how randomness, chance, and probability affect our daily lives will intrigue, awe, and inspire.
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Published in 1988, Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time became perhaps one of the unlikeliest bestsellers in history: a not-so-dumbed-down exploration of physics and the universe that occupied the London Sunday Times bestseller list for 237 weeks. Later successes include 1995’s A Briefer History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, and God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History. Stephen Hawking is Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.
In The Drunkard’s Walk Leonard Mlodinow provides readers with a wonderfully readable guide to how the mathematical laws of randomness affect our lives. With insight he shows how the hallmarks of chance are apparent in the course of events all around us. The understanding of randomness has brought about profound changes in the way we view our surroundings, and our universe. I am pleased that Leonard has skillfully explained this important branch of mathematics. --Stephen Hawking Read more
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Excel for Scientists and Engineers: Numerical Methods (Paperback)
By E. Joseph Billo
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Learn to fully harness the power of Microsoft Excel® to perform scientific and engineering calculations
With this text as your guide, you can significantly enhance Microsoft Excel's® capabilities to execute the calculations needed to solve a variety of chemical, biochemical, physical, engineering, biological, and medicinal problems. The text begins with two chapters that introduce you to Excel's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, which allows you to expand Excel's® capabilities, although you can still use the text without learning VBA. Following the author's step-by-step instructions, here are just a few of the calculations you learn to perform:
- Use worksheet functions to work with matrices
- Find roots of equations and solve systems of simultaneous equations
- Solve ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations
- Perform linear and non-linear regression
- Use random numbers and the Monte Carlo method
The CD-ROM that accompanies this text provides several useful features:
- All the spreadsheets, charts, and VBA code needed to perform the examples from the text
- Solutions to most of the end-of-chapter problems
- An add-in workbook with more than twenty custom functions
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Bioinformatics and the Cell: Modern Computational Approaches in Genomics, Proteomics and Transcriptomics (Paperback)
By Xuhua Xia
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First tagged by amit mandal "megh"
Customer tags: evolutionary bioinformatics, molecular phylogeny, gibbs sampler, statistics, codon adaptation index, bioinformatics, hidden markov models, self-organizing map, evolution, sequence alignment
Review & Description
The many books that have been published on bioinformatics tend toward either of two extremes: those that feature computational details with a great deal of mathematics, for computational scientists and mathematicians; and those that treat bioinformatics as a giant black box, for biologists. This is the first book using comprehensive numerical illustration of mathematical techniques and computational algorithms used in bioinformatics that converts molecular data into organized biological knowledge.
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