While MySQL is very popular, PostgreSQL is widely considered to be the more powerful of the two open-source databases. And...

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Using real-world examples, Carlberg helps you put Excel’s features and functions to work and get the power of quantitative analysis behind your management...

This book presents innovative theories, methodologies, and techniques in the field of risk management and decision making. It introduces new research developments and provides a comprehensive image of their potential applications to readers interested in the area. The collection includes: computational intelligence applications in decision...

Uncertain data management has seen a revival in interest in recent years because of a number of new fields which utilize this kind of data. For example, in fields such as privacy-preserving data mining, additional errors may be added to data in order to mask the identity of the records. Often the data may be imputed using statistical methods...

Bayesian analysis of complex models based on stochastic processes has in recent years become a growing area. This book provides a unified treatment of Bayesian analysis of models based on stochastic processes, covering the main classes of stochastic processing including modeling, computational, inference, forecasting, decision making and...