(Paperback)
0-19-860950-7
Publication date: July 2004
432 pages, Graphs and line drawings, 196mm x 129mm
Series: Oxford Paperback Reference
Jargon-free definitions of a broad range of statistical terms
Biographical information on key figures within the field
Entries on statistical journals and societies
Generously illustrated with useful figures and tables
The most up-to-date dictionary of statistics available
Part of the market-leading Oxford Paperback Reference series
Description
This comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date dictionary
covers a broad range of statistical terms in jargon-free language.
Clear and concise definitions are provided for all the terms
likely to be encountered by any student of statistics, and anyone
who comes into contact with statistical terms will find this
dictionary an indispensable source of reference.
Readership: Students of statistics and of disciplines featuring
statistical material, such as politics, medicine, and mathematics.
Also relevant to professionals in business and industries such as
market research and pharmaceuticals.
Contents/contributors
Preface
A-Z Dictionary of Statistics
Appendices
I Statistical Notation
II Mathematical Notation
III Greek Letters
IV Cumulative Probabilities for the Bionomial Distribution
V Cumulative Probabilities for the Poisson Distribution
VI Upper-Tail Percentage Points for the Standard Normal
Distribution
VII The Standard Normal Distribution Function
VIII Percentage Points for the t-Distribution
IX Percentage Points for the F-Distribution
X Percentage Points for the Chi-Squared Distribution
XI Critical Values for Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
XII Critical Values for Kendall
XIII Critical Values for the Product-Moment Correlation
Coefficient, r
XIV Pseudo-Random Numbers
XV Selected Landmarks in the Development of Statistics
XVI Further Reference
(Hardback)
0-19-852817-5
Publication date: July 2004
256 pages, numerous line drawings, 234mm x 156mm
Series: Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and Its Applications
Highly topical
Broad readership (mathematics, computing and physics)
Based on authors' lecture notes and includes exercises of varying
difficulty
Written by a well-respected author team
Description
Based on the authors' lecture notes, this book is concerned with
an aspect of graph theory that has broad applications to
complexity theory, graph colourings, channel assignment and
statistical physics. Containing exercises, hints and references,
it is ideal for graduate students and researchers alike.
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in graph theory.
Researchers in computing and statistical physics.
Contents/contributors
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Products and Retracts
3 The Partial Order of Graphs and Homomorphisms
4 The Structure of Composition
5 Testing for the Existence of Homomorphisms
6 Colouring - Variations on a Theme
References
Index
(Hardback)
0-19-856593-3
Publication date: August 2004
460 pages, highly illustrated, 234mm x 156mm
The first detailed history of Turing's contributions to computer
science
Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Turing's death in 2004
Contains first hand accounts by Turing including previously
unpublished work and recently declassified material
Contains many diagrams, photographs and illustrations
Contains an extensive system of hyperlinks to The Turing Archive
for the History of Computing, an on-line library of digital
facsimiles of typewritten documents by Turing and other pioneers
of the electronic computer
Description
The mathematical genius Alan Turing, well known for his crucial
wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, was the first to
conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer.
This text contains first hand accounts by Turing and by the
pioneers of computing who worked with him on his revolutionary
design for an electronic computing machine-his Automatic
Computing Engine ('ACE').
Readership: Computer scientists, mathematicians, electrical and
electronic engineers, philosophers, logicians, and historians of
computing, mathematics, science and technology. The first
detailed history of Turing's contributions to computer science,
this text is essential reading for academics interested in the
history of the computer and the history of mathematics and will
be recommended reading for courses on the history of computing
and for some computer science courses. It will also be of
interest to members of the IT industry.
Contents/contributors
Donald W. Davies: Foreword
B. Jack Copeland: Introduction
Part I: The National Physical Laboratory and the ACE Project
Eileen Magnello: A Century of Measurement and Computation at the
National Physical Laboratory, 1900-2000
Mary Croarken: The Creation of the NPL Mathematics Division
B. Jack Copeland: The Origins and Development of the ACE Project
James H. Wilkinson: The Pilot ACE at the National Physical
Laboratory
Part II: Turing and the History of Computing
Martin Campbell-Kelly: The ACE and the Shaping of British
Computing
Robert Doran: Computer Architecture and the ACE Computers
B. Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot: Turing and the Computer
Teresa Numerico: From Turing Machine to "Electronic Brain"
Part III: The ACE Computers
Henry John Norton: The Pilot ACE Instruction Format
J.G. Hayes: Programming the Pilot ACE
Robin A. Vowels: The Pilot ACE: from Concept to Reality
Robin A. Vowels: The DEUCE-a User's View
Tom Vickers: Applications of the Pilot ACE and the DEUCE
Harry D. Huskey: The ACE Test Assembly, the Pilot ACE, the Big
ACE, and the Bendix G15
Michael Woodger: The ACE Simulator and the Cybernetic Model
Benjamin Wells: The Pilot Model and the Big ACE on the Web
Part IV: Electronics
David O. Clayden: How Valves Work
Maurice Wilkes: Recollections of Early Vacuum Tube Circuits
David O. Clayden: Circuit Design of the Pilot ACE and the Big ACE
Part V: Technical Reports and Lectures on the ACE and the Pilot
ACE, 1945-1951
Alan M. Turing: Proposed Electronic Calculator (1945)
Alan M. Turing: Notes on Memory (1945)
Alan M. Turing and James H. Wilkinson: The Turing-Wilkinson
Lecture Series (1946-1947)
Harry D. Huskey: The State of the Art in Electronic Digital
Computing in Britain and the United States (1947)
(Paperback)
0-19-856582-8
Publication date: August 2004
302 pages, 234mm x 156mm
Series: Oxford Statistical Science Series
Includes worked examples along with data and code, which provides
the reader with easy implementation of methods
Addresses issues in study design and sample size formulas
Comprehensive, discusses a wide range of real-world problems
Ideal for students in biostatistics (medical statistics),
statistics, medical science, public health and clinical research
Description
This book describes statistical techniques for the design and
evaluation of research studies on medical diagnostic tests,
screening tests, biomarkers and new technologies for
classification and prediction in medicine.
Readership: Researchers and students in biostatistics (medical
statistics), statistics, medical science, public health and
clinical research.
Contents/contributors
1 Introduction
2 Measures of Accuracy for Binary Tests
3 Comparing Binary Tests and Regression Analysis
4 The Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve
5 Estimating the ROC Curve
6 Covariate Effects on Continuous and Ordinal Tests
7 Incomplete Data and Imperfect Reference Tests
8 Study Design and Hypothesis Testing
9 More Topics and Conclusions
References/Bibliography
Index
(Paperback)
0-19-875255-5
Publication date: September 2004
302 pages, 203mm x 135mm
Description
Does time really flow, or is that simply an illusion? Did time
have a beginning? What does it mean to say that time has a
direction? Does space have boundaries, or is it infinite? Are our
space and time unique, or could there be other, parallel worlds
with their own space and time? Do space and time really exist, or
are they simply the constructions of our minds?
Robin Le Poidevin provides a clear, witty, and stimulating
introduction to these deep questions, and many other mind-boggling
puzzles and paradoxes. He gives a vivid sense of the difficulties
raised by our ordinary ideas about space and time, but he also
gives us the basis to think about these problems independently,
avoiding large amounts of jargon and technicality. No prior
knowledge of philosophy is required to enjoy this book. The
universe might seem very different after reading it.
Readership: Anybody with an interest in the nature of time and
the universe.
Contents/contributors
Preface
1 The Measure of All Things
2 Change
3 A Box with No Sides?
4 Curves and Dimensions
5 The Beginning and End of Time
6 The Edge of Space
7 Infinity and Paradox
8 Does Time Pass?
9 The Cinematic Universe
10 Interfering with History
11 Other Times and Spaces
12 The Arrows of Time
Concluding Thoughts
Mr Dunne's Dream and Other Problems
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index