Research category: 4571 books
Creating the Academic Commons
Guidelines for Learning, Teaching, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Today's library is still at the heart of all university activities, helping students and faculty become better learners, teachers, and researchers. In recent years there has emerged the formalizing of one or more of these activities into an Academic Commons. These centers of information have been...
Achieving Supply Chain Integration
Connecting the Supply Chain Inside and Out for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
High-Value Supply Chain Integration
New research, practical priorities, actionable solutions
Master new best practices for integrating demand, supply, and partners worldwide
Bridge key “integration gaps” to maximize customer value and profit
Improve performance in areas ranging...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The volume highlights the state-of-the-art knowledge (including data analysis) of productivity, inequality and efficiency analysis. It showcases a selection of the best papers from the 9th North American Productivity Workshop. These papers are relevant to academia, but also to public and private sectors...
by Terry Bresnick MBA, Steven N. Tani PhD, Eric R. Johnson PhD
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
A ONE-OF-A-KIND GUIDE TO THE BEST PRACTICES IN DECISION ANALYSIS
Decision analysis provides powerful tools for addressing complex decisions that involve uncertainty and multiple objectives, yet most training materials on the subject overlook the soft skills that are essential for success in...
Customer-Centric Marketing
A Pragmatic Framework
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
State-of-the-art analytic and quantitative methods for using big data to craft effective real-time, dynamic customer-centric marketing plans.
The revolution in big data has enabled a game-changing approach to marketing. The asynchronous and continuous collection of customer data carries rich...
More Statistical and Methodological Myths and Urban Legends
Doctrine, Verity and Fable in Organizational and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are based partially in sound scientific rationale and partially in unfounded lore. Some examples of these “methodological urban legends” are characterized by manuscript critiques such as:...
An Introduction to Multilevel Modeling Techniques
MLM and SEM Approaches Using Mplus, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Univariate and multivariate multilevel models are used to understand how to design studies and analyze data in this comprehensive text distinguished by its variety of applications from the educational, behavioral, and social sciences. Basic and advanced models are developed from the multilevel...
by Dr. Jane L. Fielding, Nigel Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
`This book is highly recommended for libraries and departments to adopt. If I had to teach a statistics class for sociology students this would be a book I would surely choose. The book achieves two very important goals: it teaches students a software package and trains them in the statistical analysis...
Making Sense of Statistics
A Conceptual Overview
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Making Sense of Statistics is the ideal introduction to the concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics for students undertaking their first research project. It presents each statistical concept in a series of short steps, then uses worked examples and exercises to enable students to apply...
by Richard Durrett
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2012
This book is for a first course in stochastic processes taken by undergraduates or master’s students who have had a course in probability theory. It covers Markov chains in discrete and continuous time, Poisson processes, renewal processes, martingales, and mathematical finance. One can only learn...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
This volume contains a selection of the best papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management, XX International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, and International IIE Conference 2014, hosted by ADINGOR, ABEPRO...
by Marilyn Oermann, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Considered the "gold standard" for evaluation and testing in nursing education, this fifth edition of the classic text helps educators to assess the level of learning achieved in the classroom, in clinical settings, and online with expanded coverage of essential concepts in assessment, evaluation,...
Techniques of Event History Modeling
New Approaches to Casual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Including new developments and publications which have appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1995, this second edition:
*gives a comprehensive introductory account of event history modeling techniques and their use in applied research in economics and the social sciences;
*demonstrates...
How to Get a Great Job
A Library How-To Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In our difficult time, or at any time, knowing how to find a great job is a necessary skill. All the resources you need for a successful job search are at your fingertips—and completely free—at your public library. It can be a daunting task, so here is expert advice on how to conduct proper research,...