Reading Statistics and Research, 6th Edition

Reading Statistics and Research, 6th Edition

English | 2011 | ISBN: 013217863X | 592 pages | PDF | 4,16 Mb

Employing a non-intimidating writing style that emphasizes concepts rather than formulas, this uniquely welcoming text shows consumers of research how to read, understand, and critically evaluate the statistical information and research results contained in technical research reports. Some key topics covered in this thoroughly revised text include: descriptive statistics, correlation, reliability and validity, estimation, h hypothesis testing, t-tests, ANOVA, ANCOVA, regression, multivariate analysis, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling (SEM).

A number of mini-topics related to research and statistics are also discussed, such as the geometric mean, Tau-b correlation, Guttman split-half reliability, sensitivity, specificity, and the Sobel test. Additionally, the sixth edition also includes over 488 new excerpts (tables, figures, passages of text) taken from current research reports. Written specifically for students in non-thesis Master��s Programs but also perfectly suitable for students in upper-level undergraduate statistics courses, doctoral students who must conduct dissertation research, and independent researchers who want a better handle on how to decipher and critique statistically-based research reports.

Thoroughly updated and revised to reflect advances in the field, Reading Statistics and Research, Sixth Edition gives consumers of research exactly what they are seeking in this caliber of text, that being the knowledge necessary to better understand research and statistics, and the confidence and ability to ultimately decipher and critique research reports on their own.

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Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Engineering: Some Approximate Approaches

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Engineering: Some Approximate Approaches

Publisher: Sp[ring]'er 2011 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 3642227341 | PDF | 4 MB

This book presents and extend different known methods to solve different types of strong nonlinearities encountered by engineering systems. A better knowledge of the classical methods presented in the first part lead to a better choice of the so-called base functions. These are absolutely necessary to obtain the auxiliary functions involved in the optimal approaches which are presented in the second part. Every chapter introduces a distinct approximate method applicable to nonlinear dynamical systems. Each approximate analytical approach is accompanied by representative examples related to nonlinear dynamical systems from to various fields of engineering.

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Theoretical Kaleidoscope (Lecture Notes in Physics) by I. B. Khriplovich

Theoretical Kaleidoscope (Lecture Notes in Physics) by I. B. Khriplovich Summary:

Springer; 1 edition (December 10, 2007) | 038775251X | Pages: 98 | PDF | 1 MB

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Engineering Mathematics, Fourth Edition by J. O. Bird

Engineering Mathematics, Fourth Edition by J. O. Bird Summary:

Newnes; 4 edition (June 20, 2003) | 0750657766 | Pages: 544 | PDF | 20.13 MB

In Engineering Mathematics 4th Edition, theory is introduced in each chapter by a simple outline of essential definitions, formulae, laws and procedures. The theory is kept to a minimum, for problem solving is extensively used to establish and exemplify the theory. It is intended that readers will gain real understanding through seeing problems solved and then through solving similar problems themselves.

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Linear Programming: Foundations and Extensions, 3rd Edition by Robert J. Van

Linear Programming: Foundations and Extensions, 3rd Edition Summary:

S ringer | 2007 | 0387743871, 1441944974 | 464 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB

This Third Edition introduces the latest theory and applications in optimization. It emphasizes constrained optimization, beginning with linear programming and then proceeding to convex analysis, network flows, integer programming, quadratic programming, and convex optimization. You’ll discover a host of practical business applications as well as non-business applications. With its focus on solving practical problems, the book features free C programs to implement the major algorithms covered. The book’s accompanying website includes the C programs, JAVA tools, and new online instructional tools and exercises

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Huw Fox, W. Bolton, "Mathematics for Engineers and Technologists"

Huw Fox, W. Bolton, "Mathematics for Engineers and Technologists" Summary:

Butterworth-Heinemann | 0750655445 | edition 2002 | PDF | 344 pages | 21,9 mb

This book is carefully designed to be used on a wide range of introductory courses at first degree and HND level in the U.K., with content matched to a variety of first year degree modules from IEng and other BSc Engineering and Technology courses. Lecturers will find the breadth of material covered gears the book towards a flexible style of use, which can be tailored to their syllabus, and used along side the other IIE Core Textbooks to bring first year students up to speed on the mathematics they require for their engineering degree.

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Precalculus: A Graphing Approach, (5th Edition)

Precalculus: A Graphing Approach, (5th Edition) Summary:

Bro ks C ole | 2007 | ISBN: 0618854630 | 1114 pages | PDF | 25,8 MB

Part of the market-leading Graphing Approach series by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards, Precalculus: A Graphing Approach, 5/e, is an ideal student and instructor resource for courses that require the use of a graphing calculator. The quality and quantity of the exercises, combined with interesting applications and innovative resources, make teaching easier and help students succeed. Continuing the series' emphasis on student support, the Fifth Edition introduces Prerequisite Skills Review. For selected examples throughout the text, the Prerequisite Skills Review directs students to previous sections in the text to review concepts and skills needed to master the material at hand. In addition, prerequisite skills review exercises in Eduspace (see below for description) are referenced in every exercise set. The Larson team achieves accessibility through careful writing and design, including examples with detailed solutions that begin and end on the same page, which maximizes the readability of the text. Similarly, side-by-side solutions show algebraic, graphical, and numerical representations of the mathematics and support a variety of learning styles.

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Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals

Essential Calculus: Early Transcendentals Summary:

Br..ks C,,le | 2006 | ISBN: 0495014281 | 912 pages | PDF | 13 MB

This book is a response to those instructors who feel that calculus textbooks are too big. In writing the book James Stewart asked himself:What is essential for a three-semester calculus course for scientists and engineers? Stewart's ESSENTIAL CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS offers a concise approach to teaching calculus, focusing on major concepts and supporting those with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. ESSENTIAL CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS is only 850 pages-two-thirds the size of Stewart's other calculus texts (CALCULUS, Fifth Edition and CALCULUS, EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS, Fifth Edition)-yet it contains almost all of the same topics. The author achieved this relative brevity mainly by condensing the exposition and by putting some of the features on the website www.StewartCalculus.com. Despite the reduced size of the book, there is still a modern flavor: Conceptual understanding and technology are not neglected, though they are not as prominent as in Stewart's other books. ESSENTIAL CALCULUS: EARLY TRANSCENDENTALS has been written with the same attention to detail, eye for innovation, and meticulous accuracy that have made Stewart's textbooks the best-selling calculus texts in the world.

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Intermediate Algebra, 5 edition

Intermediate Algebra, 5 edition Summary:

Br,,,s C--e | 2008 | ISBN: 0547102178 | 880 pages | PDF | 20,4 MB

Larson IS student success. INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA owes its success to the hallmark features for which the Larson team is known: learning by example, a straightforward and accessible writing style, emphasis on visualization through the use of graphs to reinforce algebraic and numeric solutions and to interpret data, and comprehensive exercise sets. These pedagogical features are carefully coordinated to ensure that students are better able to make connections between mathematical concepts and understand the content. With a bright, appealing design, the new Fifth Edition builds on the Larson tradition of guided learning by incorporating a comprehensive range of student success materials to help develop students' proficiency and conceptual understanding of algebra. The text also continues coverage and integration of geometry in examples and exercises.

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Convention: A Philosophical Study

Convention: A Philosophical Study Summary:

Publisher: Wil..ey-Bla..ckw..ell 2002 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0631232567 , 0631232575 | PDF | 8 MB

Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions are contrasted with other kinds of regularity, and conventions governing systems of communication are given special attention. 

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Open Quantum Systems I: The Hamiltonian Approach

Open Quantum Systems I: The Hamiltonian Approach Summary:

Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540309918 | edition 2006 | PDF | 334 pages | 3 mb

Understanding dissipative dynamics of open quantum systems remains a challenge in mathematical physics. This problem is relevant in various areas of fundamental and applied physics. From a mathematical point of view, it involves a large body of knowledge. Significant progress in the understanding of such systems has been made during the last decade. These books present in a self-contained way the mathematical theories involved in the modeling of such phenomena. They describe physically relevant models, develop their mathematical analysis and derive their physical implications. 

In Volume I the Hamiltonian description of quantum open systems is discussed. This includes an introduction to quantum statistical mechanics and its operator algebraic formulation, modular theory, spectral analysis and their applications to quantum dynamical systems.

Volume II is dedicated to the Markovian formalism of classical and quantum open systems. A complete exposition of noise theory, Markov processes and stochastic differential equations, both in the classical and the quantum context, is provided. These mathematical tools are put into perspective with physical motivations and applications.

Volume III is devoted to recent developments and applications. The topics discussed include the non-equilibrium properties of open quantum systems, the Fermi Golden Rule and weak coupling limit, quantum irreversibility and decoherence, qualitative behaviour of quantum Markov semigroups and continual quantum measurements.

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Modelling and Simulation of Engineering Systems through Bondgraphs by Amalendu Mukherjee

Modelling and Simulation of Engineering Systems through Bondgraphs by Amalendu Mukherjee Summary:

Publisher: Narosa; 1 edition (December 11, 2000) | ISBN: 0849309824 | Pages: 470 | PDF | 7.12 MB

An explanation of bondgraph theory and the art of creating bondgraph models. A large number of worked out examples are provided throughout the text. Chapter topics include electronic circuits, the dynamics of a compressor reservoir system, and the modeling of thermal processes. For both the student and the practicing engineer.

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Advanced Modern Engineering Mathematics

Advanced Modern Engineering Mathematics Summary:

Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4 edition | 2011 | ISBN: 0273719238 | PDF | 1055 pages | 7.6 MB

Building on the foundations laid in the companion text Modern Engineering Mathematics, this book gives an extensive treatment of some of the advanced areas of mathematics that have applications in various fields of engineering, particularly as tools for computer-based system modelling, analysis and design. The philosophy of learning by doing helps students develop the ability to use mathematics with understanding to solve engineering problems. A wealth of engineering examples and the integration of MATLAB and MAPLE further support students.

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Nonlinear Systems by Hassan K. Khalil

Nonlinear Systems by Hassan K. Khalil Summary:

Publisher: Prentice Hall (June 1991) | ISBN: 002363541X | Pages: 576 | DJVU | 20.59 MB

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Knowledge in Formation: A Computational Theory of Interpretation

Knowledge in Formation: A Computational Theory of Interpretation Summary:

Publisher: Sp..rin..ger 2011 | 229 Pages | ISBN: 3642170889 | PDF | 2 MB

Humans have an extraordinary capability to combine different types of information in a single meaningful interpretation. The quickness with which interpretation processes evolve suggests the existence of a uniform procedure for all domains. In this book the authors suggest that such a procedure can be found. They concentrate on the introduction of a theory of interpretation, and they define a model that enables a meaningful representation of knowledge, based on a dynamic view of information and a cognitive model of human information processing. The book consists of three parts. The first part focuses on the properties of signs and sign interpretation; in the second part the authors introduce a model that complies with the conditions for sign processing set by the first part; and in the third part they examine applications of their model in the domain of logic, natural language, reasoning and mathematics. Finally they show how these domains pop up as perspectives in an overall model of knowledge representation. The reader is assumed to have some interest in human information processing and knowledge modeling. Natural language is considered in the obvious sense, familiarity with linguistic theories is not required. Sign theoretical concepts are restricted to a manageable subset, which is introduced gently. Finally, some familiarity with basic concepts of propositional and syllogistic logic may be useful.

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Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval

Advanced Topics in Information Retrieval Summary:

Publisher: Spr..in..ger 2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 3642209459 | PDF | 10 MB

Information retrieval is the science concerned with the effective and efficient retrieval of documents starting from their semantic content. It is employed to fulfill some information need from a large number of digital documents. Given the ever-growing amount of documents available and the heterogeneous data structures used for storage, information retrieval has recently faced and tackled novel applications.

In this book, Melucci and Baeza-Yates present a wide-spectrum illustration of recent research results in advanced areas related to information retrieval. Readers will find chapters on e.g. aggregated search, digital advertising, digital libraries, discovery of spam and opinions, information retrieval in context, multimedia resource discovery, quantum mechanics applied to information retrieval, scalability challenges in web search engines, and interactive information retrieval evaluation. All chapters are written by well-known researchers, are completely self-contained and comprehensive, and are complemented by an integrated bibliography and subject index.

With this selection, the editors provide the most up-to-date survey of topics usually not addressed in depth in traditional (text)books on information retrieval. The presentation is intended for a wide audience of people interested in information retrieval: undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, lecturers, and industrial researchers.

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New State of MCDM in the 21st Century

New State of MCDM in the 21st Century Summary:

Publisher: Sp,.,ring,er 2011 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 3642196942 | PDF | 3 MB

This book provides cutting-edge research results and application experiences from researchers and practitioners in multiple criteria decision making areas. It consists of three parts: MCDM Foundation and Theory, MCDM Methodology, and MCDM Applications. In Part I, it covers the historical MCDM development, the influence of MCDM on technology, society and policy, Pareto optimization, and analytical hierarchy process. In Part II, the book presents different MCDM algorithms based on techniques of robust estimating, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, Choquet integrals, and genetic search. In Part III, this book demonstrates a variety of MCDM applications, including project management, financial investment, credit risk analysis, railway transportation, online advertising, transport infrastructure, environmental pollution, chemical industry, and regional economy. The 17 papers of the book have been selected out of the 121 accepted papers at the 20th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making "New State of MCDM in 21st Century", held at Chengdu, China, in 2009. The 35 contributors of these papers stem from 10 countries.

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The Method of Coordinates

The Method of Coordinates Summary:

Birkh..ser B..ton | 1990 | ISBN: 0817635335 | 84 pages | PDF | 2,6 MB

The need for improved mathematics education at the high school and college levels has never been more apparent than in the 1990's. As early as the 1960's, I.M. Gelfand and his colleagues in the USSR thought hard about this same question and developed a style for presenting basic mathematics in a clear and simple form that engaged the curiosity and intellectual interest of thousands of high school and college students. These same ideas, this development, are available in the following books to any student who is willing to read, to be stimulated, and to learn. "The Method of Coordinates" is a way of transferring geometric images into formulas, a method for describing pictures by numbers and letters denoting constants and variables. It is fundamental to the study of calculus and other mathematical topics. Teachers of mathematics will find here a fresh understanding of the subject and a valuable path to the training of students in mathematical concepts and skills.

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Nonlinear Programming by Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Nonlinear Programming by Dimitri P. Bertsekas Summary:

Publisher: Athena Scientific; 2nd edition (September 1, 1999) | ISBN: 1886529000 | Pages: 802 | PDF | 24.03 MB

This extensive rigorous texbook, developed through instruction at MIT, focuses on nonlinear and other types of optimization: iterative algorithms for constrained and unconstrained optimization, Lagrange multipliers and duality, large scale problems, and the interface between continuous and discrete optimization.

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Numerical Methods for Engineers, 5 Edition

Numerical Methods for Engineers, 5 Edition Summary:

M-gH | 2008 | ISBN: 0071244298 | 960 pages | PDF | 101 MB

The fifth edition of "Numerical Methods for Engineers with Software and Programming Applications" continues its tradition of excellence. The revision retains the successful pedagogy of the prior editions. Chapra and Canale's unique approach opens each part of the text with sections called "Motivation", "Mathematical Background", and "Orientation"preparing the student for what is to come in a motivating and engaging manner. Each part closes with an Epilogue containing sections called "Trade-Offs", "Important Relationships and Formulas", and "Advanced Methods and Additional References". Much more than a summary, the Epilogue deepens understanding of what has been learned and provides a peek into more advanced methods. Users will find use of software packages, specifically MATLAB and Excel with VBA. This includes material on developing MATLAB m-files and VBA macros. Also, many, many more challenging problems are included. The expanded breadth of engineering disciplines covered is especially evident in the problems, which now cover such areas as biotechnology and biomedical engineering.

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