Statistics category: 3298 books
by David MacKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This volume introduces the statistical, methodological, and conceptual aspects of mediation analysis. Applications from health, social, and developmental psychology, sociology, communication, exercise science, and epidemiology are emphasized throughout. Single-mediator, multilevel, and longitudinal...
Service Industry Databook
Understanding and Analyzing Sector Specific Data Across 15 Nations
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Locating empirical information on specific service industry characteristics is not an easy task, even for an individual familiar with various sources of data. This book is a quick source of information on service industry statistics across many nations of the world. The reader is introduced to finding...
Statistical Models
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
This lively and engaging book explains the things you have to know in order to read empirical papers in the social and health sciences, as well as the techniques you need to build statistical models of your own. The discussion in the book is organized around published studies, as are many of the exercises....
by Martin Lee Abbott, Jennifer McKinney
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
A fresh approach to bridging research design with statistical analysis
While good social science requires both research design and statistical analysis, most books treat these two areas separately. Understanding and Applying Research Design introduces an accessible approach to integrating design...
Advances in Multilevel Modeling for Educational Research
Addressing Practical Issues Found in Real?World Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The significance that practitioners are placing on the use of multilevel models is undeniable as researchers want to both accurately partition variance stemming from complex sampling designs and understand relations within and between variables describing the hierarchical levels of these nested data...
by Robert Carver
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Understand the concepts and techniques of analysis while learning to reason statistically. Being an effective analyst requires that you know how to properly define a problem and apply suitable statistical techniques, as well as clearly and honestly communicate the results with information-rich visualizations...
Probability, Markov Chains, Queues, and Simulation
The Mathematical Basis of Performance Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Probability, Markov Chains, Queues, and Simulation provides a modern and authoritative treatment of the mathematical processes that underlie performance modeling. The detailed explanations of mathematical derivations and numerous illustrative examples make this textbook readily accessible to graduate...
by Field Cady
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
A comprehensive overview of data science covering the analytics, programming, and business skills necessary to master the discipline
Finding a good data scientist has been likened to hunting for a unicorn: the required combination of technical skills is simply very hard to find in one person....
Statistical Signal Processing
Frequency Estimation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Signal processing may broadly be considered to involve the recovery of information from physical observations. The received signal is usually disturbed by thermal, electrical, atmospheric or intentional interferences. Due to the random nature of the signal, statistical techniques play an important...
by Nihat Ay, Jürgen Jost, Hông Vân Lê
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
The book provides a comprehensive introduction and a novel mathematical foundation of the field of information geometry with complete proofs and detailed background material on measure theory, Riemannian geometry and Banach space theory. Parametrised measure models are defined as fundamental geometric...
Empirical Inference
Festschrift in Honor of Vladimir N. Vapnik
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book honours the outstanding contributions of Vladimir Vapnik, a rare example of a scientist for whom the following statements hold true simultaneously: his work led to the inception of a new field of research, the theory of statistical learning and empirical inference; he has lived to see the...
Visual Data Mining
The VisMiner Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
A visual approach to data mining.
Data mining has been defined as the search for useful and previously unknown patterns in large datasets, yet when faced with the task of mining a large dataset, it is not always obvious where to start and how to proceed.
This book introduces a visual...
Measuring Scholarly Impact
Methods and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This book is an authoritative handbook of current topics, technologies and methodological approaches that may be used for the study of scholarly impact. The included methods cover a range of fields such as statistical sciences, scientific visualization, network analysis, text mining, and information...
Making Sense of Data III
A Practical Guide to Designing Interactive Data Visualizations
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Focuses on insights, approaches, and techniques that are essential to designing interactive graphics and visualizations
Making Sense of Data III: A Practical Guide to Designing Interactive Data Visualizations explores a diverse range of disciplines to explain how meaning from graphical representations...