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Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Inference: With Examples in R, SAS and ADMB
This book takes a fresh look at the popular and well-established method of maximum likelihood for statistical estimation and inference. It begins with an intuitive introduction to the concepts and background of likelihood, and moves through to the latest developments in maximum likelihood methodology, including general latent variable ... | | Chaos: An Introduction for Applied Mathematicians
This is a textbook on chaos and nonlinear dynamics, written by applied mathematicians for applied mathematicians. It aims to tread a middle ground between the mathematician's rigour and the physicist’s pragmatism.
While the subject matter is now classical and can be found in many other books, what distinguishes this book... | | Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry
A distinguished philosopher offers a novel account of experience and reason, and develops our understanding of conscious experience and its relationship to thought: a new reformed empiricism.
The role of experience in cognition is a central and ancient philosophical concern. How, theorists ask, can our private... |
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| | Cloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and SecurityCloud Computing: Implementation, Management, and Security provides an understanding of what cloud computing really means, explores how disruptive it may become in the future, and examines its advantages and disadvantages. It gives business executives the knowledge necessary to make informed, educated decisions regarding cloud... | | Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy
Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through dense philosophical prose, 100 famous and influential arguments are presented in their essence, with... |
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Philosophy's Higher EducationFew will disagree that philosophy is educational, or that at the root of philosophy lies
the struggle to understand ourselves, or, even, that this struggle is formative for us.
The real disagreement begins regarding the nature and import of this learning. In the
following pages I will challenge philosophical experience to recognise... | | Cartesian Reflections: Essays on Descartes's PhilosophyJohn Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life. He also examines ways in which his philosophy has been misunderstood. The Cartesian... | | Essays on Spinoza's Ethical Theory
Thirteen original essays by leading scholars explore aspects of Spinoza's ethical theory and, in doing so, deepen our understanding of the richly rewarding core of his system. Given its importance to his philosophical ambitions, it is surprising that his ethics has, until recently, received relatively little scholarly attention.... |
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