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Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
You use math every day, sometimes without even realizing it! From predicting the weather to putting together a bake sale, see how you put math to work in your day-to-day activities.
Author
Publisher
J. Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
©2014
Edition
Rev. ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Praise for the First Edition " ... a reference for everyone who is interested in knowing and handling uncertainty."--Journal of Applied Statistics The critically acclaimed First Edition of Understanding Uncertainty provided a study of uncertainty addressed to scholars in all fields, showing that uncertainty could be measured by probability, and that probability obeyed three basic rules that enabled uncertainty to be handled sensibly in everyday life....
Author
Publisher
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (276 pages)
Language
English
Description
A New Approach to Sound Statistical ReasoningInferential Models: Reasoning with Uncertainty introduces the authors' recently developed approach to inference: the inferential model (IM) framework. This logical framework for exact probabilistic inference does not require the user to input prior information. The authors show how an IM produces meaning.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"There are a growing number of researchers and analysts who find the probability-based approaches for assessing risk and uncertainties to be too narrow and limiting. Uncertainty in Risk Assessment provides a broad conceptual framework and describes various alternative approaches of uncertainty representation and characterization therein such as probability-bound analysis, imprecise probability and evidence theory. The authors, whose own research has...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane assembles a passenger jet out of junkyard waste, the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable is fascinated and sets into motion a chase across America that is haunted by murder, madness, and mistaken identity.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"All the tools needed to perform a thorough risk assessment-whether you're working in insurance, forensics, engineering, or public safetyRisk analysis is the method of analyzing the dangers to individuals, businesses, and government agencies posed by potential natural and man-made hazards. The central task of the risk assessor is predicting the success of a project. This includes isolating the entire spectrum of adverse events that can derail a project...
70) Statistics hacks
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 online resource (356 pages)
Language
English
Description
Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into Statistics Hacks. These cool tips, tricks, and mind-boggling solutions from the world of statistics, measurement, and research methods will not only amaze and entertain you, but will give you an advantage...
Author
Publisher
Manning Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Introducing the working programmer to probabilistic programming (PP), this book will teach you how to use the PP paradigm to model application domains and then express those probabilistic models in code. --
Author
Publisher
Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 406 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"The Bayesian network is one of the most important architectures for representing and reasoning with multivariate probability distributions. When used in conjunction with specialized informatics, possibilities of real-world applications are achieved. Probabilistic Methods for BioInformatics explains the application of probability and statistics, in particular Bayesian networks, to genetics. This book provides background material on probability, statistics,...
74) The unfinished game: Pascal, Fermat, and the seventeenth-century letter that made the world modern
Author
Series
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
x, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"An original account of willful ignorance and how this principle relates to modern probability and statistical methods Through a series of colorful stories about great thinkers and the problems they chose to solve, the author traces the historical evolution of probability and explains how statistical methods have helped to propel scientific research. However, the past success of statistics has depended on vast, deliberate simplifications amounting...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Illustrates how R may be used successfully to solve problems in quantitative finance Applied Probabilistic Calculus for Financial Engineering: An Introduction Using R provides R recipes for asset allocation and portfolio optimization problems. It begins by introducing all the necessary probabilistic and statistical foundations, before moving on to topics related to asset allocation and portfolio optimization with R codes illustrated for various examples....
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the various statistical techniques involved in medical research and drug development with a focus on estimating the success probability of an experiment Success Probability Estimation with Applications to Clinical Trials details the use of success probability estimation in both the planning and analyzing of clinical trials and in widely used statistical tests. Devoted to both statisticians and non-statisticians who are...
Author
Publisher
J. Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 456 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Presents inference and simulation of stochastic process in the field of model calibration for financial times series modeled with continuous time processes and numerical option pricing. Introduces the basis of probability theory and goes on to explain how to model financial times series with continuous models, how to calibrate them and covers option pricing with one or more underlying assets based on these models. Analysis and implementation of models...
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Language
English
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Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangersEveryday, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of others by taking notice of who is standing alongside you on the bank line, the latte pickup point, or the ticket counter at the airport. David Topus' life-changing...
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