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Chances Are: Adventures in Probability

Viking Adult, 2006

A layman’s journey into the realm of probability—from poker to politics, weather to war, Monte Carlo to mortality

We search for certainty, but find only likelihood. All things are possible, only one thing actually happens; everything else is in the realm of probability. The twin disciplines of...

Inside Greek U.: Fraternities, Sororities, and the Pursuit of Pleasure, Power, and Prestige

University Press of Kentucky, 2007

One in ten American college students joins a fraternity or sorority, and Greek social organizations produce a disproportionately large percentage of power brokers in business and politics. Statistics show that while these future leaders are on campus, they are much more likely than non-Greek students to engage in binge drinking and to be either the...

Polarimetric Radar Imaging: From Basics to Applications (Optical Science and Engineering)

CRC Press, 2009

… This very concise book covering basics to applications will serve as a fundamental hands-on book for years to come. … we congratulate the authors for their diligence, oversight, and sincere dedication for assembling such a well-organized and long overdue book on the basics and applications of polarimetric radar imaging. …...

Bayesian Computation with R (Use R)

Springer, 2009

The book is a concise presentation of a wide range of Bayesian inferential problems and the computational methods to solve them. The detailed and thorough presentation style, with complete R code for the examples, makes it a welcome companion to a theoretical text on Bayesian inference.... Smart students of statistics will want to have both R and...

Principles of Economics, 4th Edition (Student Edition)

South-Western College, 2006

PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS continues to be the most popular and widely used text in the Economics classroom. The 4th edition features a strong revision of content in all 36 chapters while maintaining the clear and accessible writing style that is the hallmark of the highly respected author. The 4th edition also features an expanded instructor's...

Object Oriented Simulation: A Modeling and Programming Perspective

Springer, 2009

Object Oriented Simulation will qualify as a valuable resource to students and accomplished professionals and researchers alike, as it provides an extensive, yet comprehensible introduction to the basic principles of object-oriented modeling, design and implementation of simulation models.

Key features include an introduction...

Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.1 for Effective MySQL Management

Packt Publishing, 2009

MySQL has gained wide popularity because of its open-source nature, performance, reliability, robustness, and support for various platforms.

phpMyAdmin is a web-based front-end to manage MySQL databases and has been adopted by a number of open-source distributors. It is one of the most widely used open-source applications written...

Joomla! E-Commerce with VirtueMart

Packt Publishing, 2009

VirtueMart is a widely used component for adding e-commerce to a Joomla! site. VirtueMart covers all the aspects of e-commerce in an easy-to-use fashion and allows administrators to configure the various factors such as those of the shop, selling workflow, payment, products, and more. It also has many other features, which include managing...

The Findability Formula: The Easy, Non-Technical Approach to Search Engine Marketing

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

"...shows how to position your business front and centre when prospects are searching online for solutions you can provide." (Globe and Mail, April 2009)

To be successful in business you must be able to attract the right clients and persuade them to buy. However, on the internet, people only see what the search...

Strategic Mobile Design: Creating Engaging Experiences (Voices That Matter)

New Riders Publishing, 2008

The mobile landscape is an evolving ecosystem of constant exploration and progressive thinking. Mobile is more than just the device that we carry in our bag for phone calls and text messages with friends. It’s a device that connects users to a wealth of information and portable experiences throughout the globe—experiences such as those...

Gnuplot in Action: Understanding Data with Graphs

Manning Publications, 2009

Statistical data is only as valuable as your ability to analyze, interpret, and present it in a meaningful way. Gnuplot is the most widely used program to plot and visualize data for Unix/Linux systems and it is also popular for Windows and the Mac. It's open-source (as in free!), actively maintained, stable, and mature. It can deal with...

Probability, Random Processes, and Ergodic Properties

Springer, 2009

This book has a long history. It began over two decades ago as the first half of a book on information and ergodic theory. The intent was and remains to provide a reasonably self-contained advanced (at least for engineers) treatment of measure theory, probability theory, and random processes, with an emphasis on general alphabets and on ergodic...

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