Bayesian methods are being used more often than ever before in biology and
medicine. For example, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Center, Bayesian sequential stopping rules routinely are used for the design
of clinical trials. This book is based on the author’s experience working with
a variety of...
Productivity is an important factor for a software developer. A good development
environment or surrounding tools with the essence of a particular programming flavor can
boost up our coding productivity and yield a quality and optimized software product. In
order to maintain a fast-paced development, developers seek the environment...
Windows 8 represents the most radical change to Microsoft’s operating system since Windows 95 was released 17 years ago. With its new Start screen and interface, the latest version of Windows is an attempt to create a single operating system designed to run on both traditional PCs and tablets.
Several years ago, Thomas’s English Muffins had an ad that proclaimed
that the tastiness of their muffins was due to the presence of myriad “nooks
and crannies.” The same may be said of the Internet. It is in the Internet’s nooks
and crannies that the true “tastiness” often lies. Almost every...
When we, the authors of this book, first learned what Microsoft’s plans were for Analysis Services in the SQL Server 2012 release, we were not happy. Analysis Services hadn’t acquired much in the way of new features since 2005, even though in the meantime it had grown to become the biggest-selling OLAP tool. It seemed as...
This book is intended to have three roles and to serve three associated audiences: an
introductory text on Bayesian inference star ting from first principles, a graduate text on
effective current approaches to Bayesian modeling and computation in statistics and
related fields, and a handbook of Bayesian meth ods in applied...
Any attempt to list the 50 most important battles in all history is necessarily
subjective. To list them in order of importance is an even greater exercise
of chutzpah. Nevertheless, people have been listing decisive battles since
Sir Edward Creasy, a lawyer who taught history, a century-and-a-half ago.
Other compilers include...
This book features challenging problems of classical analysis that invite the reader to explore a host of strategies and tools used for solving problems of modern topics in real analysis. This volume offers an unusual collection of problems — many of them original — specializing in three topics of mathematical analysis: limits,...
TypeScript Revealed is a quick 100-page guide to Anders Hejlsberg's new take on JavaScript. With this brief, fast-paced introduction to TypeScript, .NET, Web and Windows 8 application developers who are already familiar with JavaScript will easily get up to speed with TypeScript and decide whether or not to start incorporating it...
Carbohydrates are major components of foods, accounting for more
than 90% of the dry matter of fruits and vegetables and providing for
70-80% of human caloric intake worldwide (BeMiller and Huber 2008).
Thus, from a quantitative perspective alone, carbohydrates warrant the
attention of food chemists. From the standpoint of food...
Extensively revised and updated, Handbook of Water Analysis, Third Edition provides current analytical techniques for detecting various compounds in water samples. Maintaining the detailed and accessible style of the previous editions, this third edition demonstrates water sampling and preservation methods by enumerating...
Welcome to Android Arcade Game App. In this book, you will learn how to
create an Android arcade-style game “from project to publish.” While I will walk
you through solutions to some gaming development problems, this book is not
necessarily for beginner developers.
