Modern Meta-Analysis: Review and Update of Methodologies by Ton J. Cleophas, ISBN-13: 978-3319558943 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2017 edition (May 10, 2017) Language: English 332 pages ISBN-10: 3319558943 ISBN-13: 978-3319558943 Modern meta-analyses do more than combine the effect sizes of a series of similar studies. Meta-analyses are currently increasingly applied for any analysis beyond the primary analysis of studies, and for the analysis of big data. This 26-chapter book was…
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Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis 9th Edition by Edwin J. Elton, ISBN-13: 978-1118469941 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Wiley; 9th edition (January 21, 2014) Language: English 752 pages ISBN-10: 1118469941 ISBN-13: 978-1118469941 This book, as the title suggests, is concerned with the characteristics and analysis of individual securities, as well as with the theory and practice of optimally combining securities into portfolios. Part 1 of the book provides a description of securities and…
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Dimensional Analysis: Calculating Dosages Safely 2nd Edition by Tracy Horntvedt, ISBN-13: 978-0803661899 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; Second edition (February 11, 2019) Language: English 480 pages ISBN-10: 0803661894 ISBN-13: 978-0803661899 Description: Focus on patient safety Learning models, including the “4 Cs” approach to dosage calculations: compute, convert, conceptualize, and critically evaluate Over 1,000 practice problems throughout the book, including… Basic skills pre-test End-of-section practice tests in each chapter End-of-unit assessment tests…
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Regression Analysis by Example 5th Edition by Samprit Chatterjee and Ali S. Hadi, ISBN-13: 978-0470905845 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Wiley; 5th edition (August 23, 2012) Language: English 420 pages ISBN-10: 0470905840 ISBN-13: 978-0470905845 Praise for the 5th Edition: “This book is . . . an excellent source of examples for regression analysis. It has been and still is readily readable and understandable.”―Journal of the American Statistical Association Regression analysis is a conceptually simple…
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Design and Analysis of Experiments 10th Edition by Douglas C. Montgomery, ISBN-13: 978-1119722106 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Wiley; 10th edition (June 23, 2020) Language: English 688 pages ISBN-10: 1119722101 ISBN-13: 978-1119722106 Design and Analysis of Experiments provides a rigorous introduction to product and process design improvement through quality and performance optimization. Clear demonstration of widely practiced techniques and procedures allows readers to master fundamental concepts, develop design and analysis skills, and use experimental…
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Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives 6th Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1506358154 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: CQ Press; 6th edition (May 16, 2017) Language: English 584 pages ISBN-10: 9781506358154 ISBN-13: 978-1506358154 In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To encourage critical and creative thinking on issues ranging from the federal deficit to health care reform to climate change, authors Michael…
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Advanced Analytics with Spark: Patterns for Learning from Data at Scale 2nd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-1491972953 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd edition (July 18, 2017) Language: English 280 pages ISBN-10: 9781491972953 ISBN-13: 978-1491972953 In the second edition of this practical book, four Cloudera data scientists present a set of self-contained patterns for performing large-scale data analysis with Spark. The authors bring Spark, statistical methods, and real-world data sets together to teach you…
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Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Data Analytics 2nd Edition by Jules S. Damji, ISBN-13: 978-1492050049 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 2nd edition (August 11, 2020) Language: English 400 pages ISBN-10: 1492050040 ISBN-13: 978-1492050049 Data is bigger, arrives faster, and comes in a variety of formats—and it all needs to be processed at scale for analytics or machine learning. But how can you process such varied workloads efficiently? Enter Apache Spark. Updated to include Spark…
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Time Series Analysis With Applications in R 2nd Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0387759586 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Springer; 2nd edition (April 4, 2008) Language: English 505 pages ISBN-10: 0387759581 ISBN-13: 978-0387759586 This book has been developed for a one-semester course usually attended by students in statistics, economics, business, engineering, and quantitative social sciences. A unique feature of this edition is its integration with the R computing environment. Basic applied statistics is assumed through multiple regression.…
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Introduction to Data Science: A Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications, ISBN-13: 978-3319500164 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2017 edition (March 2, 2017) Language: English 232 pages ISBN-10: 3319500163 ISBN-13: 978-3319500164 This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts adopted from statistics and machine learning, useful techniques for graph analysis and parallel programming,…
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Data Science and Predictive Analytics Biomedical and Health Applications using R, ISBN-13: 978-3319723464 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2018 edition (September 14, 2018) Language: English 866 pages ISBN-10: 3319723464 ISBN-13: 978-3319723464 Over the past decade, Big Data have become ubiquitous in all economic sectors, scientific disciplines, and human activities. They have led to striking technological advances, affecting all human experiences. Our ability to manage, understand, interrogate, and interpret such extremely large,…
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