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Principles of Econometrics

John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Principles of Econometrics, 4th edition, is an introductory book for undergraduate students in economics and finance, as well as for first-year graduate students in economics, finance, accounting, agricultural economics, marketing, public policy, sociology, law, and political science. It is assumed that students have taken courses in...

Methods of Demographic Analysis

Springer, 2013

This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis and methods, including recent developments in demography. Concepts and methods, from the nature of demographic information through data collection and the basics of statistical measures and on to demographic analysis itself are succinctly explained. Measures and analyses of...

Understanding Surveillance Technologies: Spy Devices, Their Origins & Applications

CRC Press, 2000

This is the first comprehensive text to cover this fascinating field from origins to present-day practices. Secret agents are no longer the only people using spycams, radio beacons, and tiny audio listening devices called 'bugs.' Spy devices are now an important part of almost every investigation, office environment, phone system, traffic...

When Law and Medicine Meet: A Cultural View (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

Springer, 2008

What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological.

Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring testimony by expert witnesses on recent...

Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications (Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics)

CRC Press, 2013

Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications is based on a decade of the authors’ collaborative work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a single, consistent HAPC-GLMM statistical modeling framework, the authors synthesize APC models and methods for three research designs:...

Free/Open Source Software Development

Idea Group Publishing, 2005

In the last few years, free and open source software has gathered increasing
interest, both from the business and the academic worlds. As some projects in different
application domains, like Linux together with the suite of GNU utilities,
GNOME, KDE, Apache, sendmail, bind, and several programming languages, have
achieved huge...

Introduction to Statistics Through Resampling Methods and Microsoft Office Excel

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

INTENDED FOR CLASS USE OR SELF-STUDY, this text aspires to introduce statistical
methodology to a wide audience, simply and intuitively, through
resampling from the data at hand.

The resampling methods—permutations and the bootstrap—are easy to
learn and easy to apply. They require no mathematics beyond...

The Innovation Butterfly: Managing Emergent Opportunities and Risks During Distributed Innovation (Understanding Complex Systems)

Springer, 2012

Product and service innovations are the result of mutually interacting creative and coordination tasks within a system that has to balance technical decisions, marketplace taste, personnel management, and stakeholder commitment. The constituent elements of such systems are often scattered across multiple firms and across the globe and...

Where Stuff Comes From: How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers and Many Other Things Come to Be As They Are

Routledge, 2003

Where Stuff Comes From is about paper clips, post-its, bathtubs, cars and all the other stuff in our lives. It is about how these items were imagined into existence and made a part of the American material culture. From the designer to the manufacturer to the business owner to the consumer, Molotch guides us through the worlds of technology,...

Circumcision and Human Rights

Springer, 2009

"There is hardly a reason to circumcise a little boy for medical reasons because those medical reasons don t exist," said Dr. Michael Wilks, Head of Ethics at the British Medical Association, who admitted that doctors have circumcised boys for "no good reason."

In the United States, parts of Africa, the Middle East,...

Speech Processing and Soft Computing

Springer, 2011

Soft Computing (SC) techniques have been recognized nowadays as attractive solutions for modeling highly nonlinear or partially defined complex systems and processes. These techniques resemble biological processes more closely than conventional (more formal) techniques. However, despite its increasing popularity, soft computing lacks...

An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This landmark text is the first introduction to concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis for educational researchers. The central premise is that critical discourse analysis must be conducted "systematically," which means conducting inquiry into the ways in which language form and function correlate with social practices....

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