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The definitive resource for survey questionnaire testing and evaluation Over the past two decades, methods for the development, evaluation, and testing of survey questionnaires have undergone radical change. Research has now begun to identify the strengths and...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2004-08-02
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Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
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While mapped data provide a common ground for discussions between the public, the media, regulatory agencies, and public health researchers, the analysis of spatially referenced data has experienced a phenomenal growth over the last two decades, thanks in part to the...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2004-07-29
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Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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Financial risk management has become a popular practice amongst financial institutions to protect against the adverse effects of uncertainty caused by fluctuations in interest rates, exchange rates, commodity prices, and equity prices. New financial instruments and...
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Wiley
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2004-07-16
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READ ALL ABOUT IT! David Spiegelhalter has recently joined the ranks of Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking by becoming a fellow of the Royal Society. Originating from the Medical Research Council’s biostatistics unit, David has played a leading role in the...
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Wiley
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2004-05-05
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Statistics in Practice
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Statistical Estimation of Epidemiological Risk provides coverage of the most important epidemiological indices, and includes recent developments in the field. A useful reference source for biostatisticians and epidemiologists working in disease prevention, as the...
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Wiley
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2004-04-02
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Statistics in Practice
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An up-to-date, comprehensive account of major issues in finite mixture modeling This volume provides an up-to-date account of the theory and applications of modeling via finite mixture distributions. With an emphasis on the applications of mixture models in both...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2004-03-22
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This volume provides an up-to-date coverage of the theory and applications of ordered random variables and their functions. Furthermore, it develops the distribution theory of OS systematically. Applications include procedures for the treatment of outliers and other...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2004-03-22
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Continuous Multivariate Distributions, Volume 1, Second Edition provides a remarkably comprehensive, self-contained resource for this critical statistical area. It covers all significant advances that have occurred in the field over the past quarter century in the...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2004-03-22
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Large surveys are becoming increasingly available for public use, and researchers are often faced with the need to analyse complex survey data to address key scientific issues. For proper analysis it is also important to be aware of the different aspects of the design...
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Wiley
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2004-03-05
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Statistics in Practice
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At last—a social scientist's guide through the pitfalls of modern statistical computing Addressing the current deficiency in the literature on statistical methods as they apply to the social and behavioral sciences, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2004-02-01
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Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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Procrustean methods are used to transform one set of data to represent another set of data as closely as possible. The name derives from the Greek myth where Procrustes invited passers-by in for a pleasant meal and a night's rest on a magical bed that would exactly fit...
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OUP Oxford
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2004-01-22
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A comprehensive perspective on Weibull models The literature on Weibull models is vast, disjointed, andscattered across many different journals. Weibull Models is acomprehensive guide that integrates all the different facets ofWeibull models in a single volume. This...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2004-01-14
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Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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A comprehensive account of economic size distributions around the world and throughout the years In the course of the past 100 years, economists and applied statisticians have developed a remarkably diverse variety of income distribution models, yet no single resource...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2003-10-10
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Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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Nonlinearity arises in statistical inference in various ways, with varying degrees of severity, as an obstacle to statistical analysis. More entrenched forms of nonlinearity often require intensive numerical methods to construct estimators, and the use of root search...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-10-02
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Balanced coverage of the methodology and theory of numerical methods in finance Numerical Methods in Finance bridges the gap between financial theory and computational practice while helping students and practitioners exploit MATLAB for financial applications. Paolo...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2003-09-29
Collection :
Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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Each topic starts with an explanation of the theoretical background necessary to allow full understanding of the technique and to facilitate future learning of more advanced or new methods and software Explanations are designed to assume as little background in...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2003-08-05
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Written for practitioners of data mining, data cleaning and database management. Presents a technical treatment of data quality including process, metrics, tools and algorithms. Focuses on developing an evolving modeling strategy through an iterative data exploration...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2003-08-01
Collection :
Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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Accessible to medicine- and/or public policy-related audiences, as well as most statisticians. * Emphasis on outliers is discussed by way of detection and treatment. * Resampling statistics software is incorporated throughout. * Motivating applications are presented in...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2003-06-10
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Peruse the history of survey research and the essential conceptsfor data quality. With an emphasis on total survey error, theauthors review principles and concepts in the field and examineimportant unresolved issues in survey methods. Spanning a range oftopics dealing...
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Wiley-Interscience
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2003-05-13
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Wiley Series in Survey Methodology
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This monograph sets out a body of mathematical theory for finite graphs with nodes placed randomly in Euclidean space and edges added to connect points that are close to each other. As an alternative to classical random graph models, these geometric graphs are relevant...
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OUP Oxford
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2003-05-01
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