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  • What the Numbers Say

    A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World

    by Derrick Niederman, David Boyum ...
    A decade ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter coined the term innumeracy, which aptly described the widespread ailment of poor quantitative thinking in American society. So, in What the Numbers Say, Derrick Niederman and David Boyum present clear and comprehensible methods to help us process and calculate our way through the world of “data smog” that we live in. Avoiding abstruse ... Read more

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    Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist

    by Howard Wainer ...
    Teacher tenure is a problem. Teacher tenure is a solution. Fracking is safe. Fracking causes earthquakes. Our kids are over-tested. Our kids are not tested enough. We read claims like these in the newspaper every day, often with no justification other than 'it feels right'. How can we figure out what is right? Escaping from the clutches of truthiness begins with one simple question: 'what is the ... Read more

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  • The Norm Chronicles

    Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death

    by Michael Blastland, David Spiegelhalter ...
    Is it safer to fly or take the train? How dangerous is skydiving? And is eating that extra sausage going to kill you? We've all heard the statistics for risky activities, but what do they mean in the real world? In The Norm Chronicles, journalist Michael Blastland and risk expert David Spiegelhalter explore these questions through the stories of average Norm and an ingenious measurement called the ... Read more

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  • Economic Forecasting and Policy

    by N. Carnot, V. Koen, B. Tissot ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Economic Forecasting provides a comprehensive overview of macroeconomic forecasting. The focus is first on a wide range of theories as well as empirical methods: business cycle analysis, time series methods, macroeconomic models, medium and long-run projections, fiscal and financial forecasts, and sectoral forecasting. ... Read more

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  • Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications

    by Edward W. Frees ...
    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    This text gives budding actuaries and financial analysts a foundation in multiple regression and time series. They will learn about these statistical techniques using data on the demand for insurance, lottery sales, foreign exchange rates, and other applications. Although no specific knowledge of risk management or finance is presumed, the approach introduces applications in which statistical ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Data Science

    Innovative Developments in Data Analysis and Clustering

    Edited by Angela Montanari, Maurizio Vichi, Francesco Palumbo ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This edited volume on the latest advances in data science covers a wide range of topics in the context of data analysis and classification. In particular, it includes contributions on classification methods for high-dimensional data, clustering methods, multivariate statistical methods, and various applications. The book gathers a selection of peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Fifteenth ... Read more

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  • R for Marketing Research and Analytics

    by Chris Chapman, Elea McDonnell Feit ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This bookis a complete introduction to the power of R for marketing research practitioners. The text describes statistical models from a conceptual point of view with a minimal amount of mathematics, presuming only an introductory knowledge of statistics. Hands-on chapters accelerate the learning curve by asking readers to interact with R from the beginning. Core topics include the R language, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Introductory Statistics and Analytics

    A Resampling Perspective

    by Peter C. Bruce ...
    Concise, thoroughly class-tested primer that features basic statistical concepts in the concepts in the context of analytics, resampling, and the bootstrapA uniquely developed presentation of key statistical topics, Introductory Statistics and Analytics: A Resampling Perspective provides an accessible approach to statistical analytics, resampling, and the bootstrap for readers with various levels ... Read more

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  • Statistics for Business

    by Derek L. Waller ...
    Statistics for Business explains the fundamentals of statistical analysis in a lucid, pragmatic way. A thorough knowledge of statistics is essential for decision making in all corners of business and management. By collecting, organizing and analyzing statistical data you can express what you know, benchmark your current situation, and estimate future outcomes.Based entirely on Microsoft Excel, ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Exotic Option Pricing

    by Peter Buchen ...
    In an easy-to-understand, nontechnical yet mathematically elegant manner, An Introduction to Exotic Option Pricing shows how to price exotic options, including complex ones, without performing complicated integrations or formally solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The author incorporates much of his own unpublished work, including ideas ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Heavy-Tailed and Subexponential Distributions

    by Sergey Foss, Dmitry Korshunov, Stan Zachary ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Heavy-tailed probability distributions are an important component in the modeling of many stochastic systems. They are frequently used to accurately model inputs and outputs of computer and data networks and service facilities such as call centers. They are an essential for describing risk processes in finance and also for insurance premia pricing, and such distributions occur naturally in models ... Read more

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  • Nonparametric Statistics

    2nd ISNPS, Cádiz, June 2014

    Edited by Ricardo Cao, Wenceslao González Manteiga, Juan Romo ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume collects selected, peer-reviewed contributions from the 2nd Conference of the International Society for Nonparametric Statistics (ISNPS), held in Cádiz (Spain) between June 11–16 2014, and sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, the Journal of Nonparametric Statistics ... Read more

    $143.09 USD