A comprehensive introduction to multivariate
data analysis for
students without a background in mathematics
who are now studying
statistics. The text combines the theory
and practice of
multivariate analysis and includes excercises
of varying degrees
of difficulty, as well as data projects,
to allow the student to
gain confidence in a complex subject area.
There is a website
accompany for the text that contains programmes
for matirx
manipulation which is essential for students
of statistics.
First recent up-to-date book in this important
area.
Website component contains programmes for
matrix manipulation.
Starts from a practical viewpoint and assumes
less mathematical
knowledge.
256 pp.; 30 b/w line illus; 0-340-76084-2
Due: 11/15/04 Paperback
Sample surveys play a vital role in modern
society in allowing
us to collect and process data about particular
groups. Sample
Survey: Principles and Methods aims to provide
a comprehensive
coverage of survey sampling to meet the needs
of students,
statisticians and other practitioners. This
third edition has
evolved to reflect the new demands for wider
areas of application
and to keep up-to-date with developing methods
of carrying out
surveys, such as via email and the internet.
New chapters
introduce modern approaches to sampling methods
for rare and
sensitive events and for natural phenomena,
with particular
reference to contemporary biological, environmental
and social
issues. Wide-ranging topical examples on
all topics are given
throughout the text. Practical exercises
are presented at chapter
ends, and numerical answers are provided
in all cases. As well as
new chapters covering a wider range of fields
in which sample
surveys can be used, new features in this
new edition include
chapter summaries and an expanded bibliography
and reference
section.
0-340-76398-1
2003 paper
This invaluable book, based on the many years
of teaching
experience of both authors, introduces the
reader to the basic
ideas in differential topology. Among the
topics covered are
smooth manifolds and maps, the structure
of the tangent bundle
and its associates, the calculation of real
cohomology groups
using differential forms (de Rham theory),
and applications such
as the Poincare?Hopf theorem relating the
Euler number of a
manifold and the index of a vector field.
Each chapter contains
exercises of varying difficulty for which
solutions are provided.
Special features include examples drawn from
geometric manifolds
in dimension 3 and Brieskorn varieties in
dimensions 5 and 7, as
well as detailed calculations for the cohomology
groups of
spheres and tori.
Contents:
Differential Manifolds and Differentiable
Maps
The Derivatives of Differentiable Maps
Fibre Bundles
Differential Forms and Integration
The Exterior Derivative
De Rham Cohomology
Degrees, Indices and Related Topics
Lie Groups
A Rapid Course in Differential Analysis
Readership: Upper level undergraduates, beginning
graduate
students, and lecturers in geometry and topology.
232pp Pub. date: Mar 2003
ISBN 1-86094-354-3
ISBN 1-86094-355-1(pbk)
245 pages
ISBN: 975-403-208-4
Table of Contents:
Symplectic maps to projective spaces and
symplectic invariants,
Denis Auroux
The topology of symplectic manifolds
Robert E. Gompf
Surface bundles: some interesting examples
Jim Bryan, Ron Donagi, Andras I. Stipsicz
Torus fibrations on symplectic four-manifolds
Ivan Smith
Sections of Lefschetz fibrations and Stein
fillings
Andras I. Stipsicz
Floer homology and its continuity for non-compact
Lagrangian
submanifolds
Yong-Geun Oh
A partial order on the group of contactomorphisms
of R^2n+1 via
generating functions
Mohan Bhupal
The canonical class of a symplectic 4-manifold
Ronald Fintushel and Ronald Stern
Knotting of algebraic curves in complex surfaces
Sergey Finashin
The Verlinde algebra is twisted equivariant
K-theory
Daniel S. Freed
Topological quantum field theory and hyperkahler
geometry
Justin Sawon
G-bundles on Abelian surfaces, hyperkahler
manifolds, and stringy
Hodge numbers
Jim Bryan, Ron Donagi and Naichung Conan
Leung
On the tautological ring of \overline M_g,n
Tom Graber and Ravi Vakil
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May 2003, 176 pp., 26 illustrations
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