Learn IT - Books tags statistical

Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football

Princeton Press, 2009

If you have picked up this book you surely love sports and you probably like math. You may have read Michael Lewis’s great book Moneyball, which describes how the Oakland A’s used mathematical analysis to help them compete successfully with the New York Yankees even though the average annual payroll for the A’s is less than 40...

Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology)

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Longitudinal surveys are surveys that involve collecting data from multiple subjects on multiple occasions. They are typically used for collecting data relating to social, economic, educational and health-related issues and they serve as an important tool for economists, sociologists, and other researchers.

Focusing on the design,...

Advances In Quantitative Analysis Of Finance And Accounting

World Scientific Publishing, 2008

Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting, as well as applications of quantitative methods to problems in...

Design of Observational Studies (Springer Series in Statistics)

Springer, 2009

An observational study is an empiric investigation of effects caused by treatments when randomized experimentation is unethical or infeasible. Observational studies are common in most fields that study the effects of treatments on people, including medicine, economics, epidemiology, education, psychology, political science and sociology. The...

Video Compression Systems: From first principles to concatenated codecs (Iet Telecommuncations)

Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2009

-Traces history of video compression systems from low bit rate compression to today's high quality HDTV compression

-Accessible to a wide audience - complicated processes are explained using figures and diagrams with descriptions of the algorithms.

This book gives an overview on many practical aspects of video compression systems used...

SAS 9.2 Language Reference: Concepts

SAS Institute, 2009

Documents essential concepts for the DATA step, SAS features, and SAS files.

SAS is a set of solutions for enterprise-wide business users and provides a powerful fourth-generation programming language for performing tasks such as these:

data entry, retrieval, and management

report writing...

An Introductory Guide to SPSS® for Windows®

Sage Publications, 2005

This book is designed to provide the reader with an introduction to one of the most popular computer programs for data analysis: the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for Windows. This computer software provides a comprehensive set of flexible tools that can be used to accomplish a wide variety of data analysis tasks. The book...

Introduction to Data Technologies (Computer Science and Data Analysis)

CRC Press, 2009

Perform Research Tasks with Ease

Focuses on computer languages as tools for data management
Providing key information on how to work with research data, Introduction to Data Technologies presents ideas and techniques for performing critical, behind-the-scenes tasks that take up so...

Next-Generation Business Intelligence Software with Silverlight 3

Apress, 2009

Business Intelligence (BI) software aims to bring together different pieces of a business into views that can make comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI applications. Currently, we are in the second...

Test-Driven Development: An Empirical Evaluation of Agile Practice

Springer, 2010

Agile methods are gaining more and more interest both in industry and in research. Many industries are transforming their way of working from traditional waterfall projects with long duration to more incremental, iterative and agile practices. At the same time, the need to evaluate and to obtain evidence for different processes, methods and...

Reinforcement of Polymer Nano-Composites: Theory, Experiments and Applications

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Reinforced rubber allows the production of passenger car tires with improved rolling resistance and wet grip. This book provides in-depth coverage of the physics behind elastomer reinforcement, with a particular focus on the modification of polymer properties using active fillers such as carbon black and silica. The authors build a firm theoretical...

Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion

University of New York, 2009

Black Nationalism is one of the oldest and most enduring ideological constructs developed by African Americans to make sense of their social and political worlds. In Dreaming Blackness, Melanye T. Price explores the current understandings of Black Nationalism among African Americans, providing a balanced and critical view of...

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