Anders Wallgren, Britt Wallgren

Register-based Statistics: Administrative Data for Statistical Purposes

ISBN: 0-470-02778-9
Hardcover
304 pages
March 2007

Description

This book seeks to lay down some common ground for the theory and practice of register-based statistics. It begins by defining the area, before explaining how to structure such systems, as well as detailing alternative approaches. It explains how to create statistical registers, how to implement quality assurance, and the use of IT systems for register-based statistics. Further to this, clear details are given about the practicalities of implementing such statistical methods, such as protection of privacy and the coordination and coherence of such an undertaking. Register-Based Statistics offers a full understanding of both the principles and practices of this increasingly popular area of statistics, and can be considered a first step to a more systematic way of working with register-statistical issues.

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Walter T. Federer, Freedom King

Variations on Split Plot and Split Block Experiment Designs

ISBN: 0-470-08149-X
Hardcover
288 pages
January 2007

Description

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the design of split-plot and blocked experiments, two types of experiments that are extremely popular in practice. The optimal design approach advocated in the book will help applied statisticians from industry, medicine, agriculture, chemistry and many other fields of study in setting up tailor-made experiments. This is illustrated by a number of examples. The book also contains a theoretical background, a thorough review of the recent work in the area of split-block and blocked experiments, and a number of provocative theoretical results (some new to this volume).

Michael Goldstein, David Wooff

Bayes Linear Statistics: Theory & Methods

ISBN: 0-470-01562-4
Hardcover
536 pages
March 2007

Description

This book explains the foundations, theory, methodology, mathematics & practicalities of what is generally termed the Bayes linear approach. It explains the main concepts, and illustrates them with a number of practical examples.
It begins by carefully developing the basic language of Bayes linear analysis, describing the fundamental operations of belief adjustment and partial adjustment and their interpretations. It describes the role of exchangeability, and discusses more general ways of analyzing beliefs via general belief transforms, and shows how the Bayes linear approach may be used to analyse statistical examples of various degrees of complexity. The twin roles of Bayes linear influence diagrams are discussed, and it concludes by collecting together all the algebraic results needed for efficient implementation of the Bayes linear approach.

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Sik-Yum Lee

Structural Equation Modelling: A Bayesian Approach

ISBN: 0-470-02423-2
Hardcover
432 pages
March 2007

Description

In recent years there has been a tremendous upsurge in research into SEMs, focusing on an increasing range of applications. This book provides an introduction to SEMs, and covers Bayesian approaches to analyzing them. It features a large number of real examples to illustrate the theory and explain computation techniques. The book is supported by a Website featuring computing code and data sets making it an excellent addition to the Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics.

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Thomas P. Ryan

Modern Experimental Design

ISBN: 0-471-21077-3
Hardcover
608 pages
January 2007

Description

Suitable for use as either an undergraduate or graduate text, depending on the audience, this book covers a wide range of topics, including some that have received increased attention in recent years, such as hard-to-change factors, uniform designs, multiple response optimization, and Analysis of Means (ANOM). Conditional effects are emphasized and advocated for the first time as a routine and important method of analysis. There is a large number of cited references and extensive discussions of software capabilities, with considerable illustrative use of Design-Expert, in particular, JMP, and Minitab.


Edited by Deanna Haunsperger / Carleton College, Minnesota

The Edge of the Universe
Celebrating Ten Years of Math Horizons

Series: Spectrum
Stephen Kennedy / Carleton College, Minnesota
Hardback (ISBN-13: 9780883855553 | ISBN-10: 0883855550)

Math Horizons celebrates the people and ideas that are mathematics. Containing the editors' selection from the first ten years of the magazine's existence, this volume features exquisite expositions of mathematics accessible at the level of an undergraduate or advanced school student. Broad and appealing, the coverage also includes fiction with mathematical themes; literary, theatrical, and cinematic criticism; humour; history; and social history. Mathematics is shown as a human endeavour through biographies and interviews of mathematicians and users of mathematics including artists, writers, and scientists. The puzzles, games, and activities throughout make it a valuable resource for student maths clubs. Though especially appealing to undergraduate math majors, academics in mathematics, and school teachers and their students, anyone with an interest in mathematics will delight in engaging this volume. Like the magazine from which it is drawn, this collection is an eclectic and wide-ranging look at the culture of mathematics.

* Beautifully printed with 24 pages of full-color images
* An eclectic and wide-ranging look at the culture of mathematics
* A must for any mathematical enthusiast

Contributors

Donald J. Albers, Mark F. Schilling, Alan Tucker, David C. Arney, Kenneth M. Hoffman, Underwood Dudley, Martin Gardner, Joseph A. Gallian, Don Knuth, Dan Kalman, Ellen Gethner, William Dunham, Stephen Kennedy, Mamikon Mnatsakanian, John M. Harris, Michael J. Mossinghoff, Richard Guy, David Gale, Deanna Haunsperger, Stan Wagon, Rheta Rubenstein, Randy Schwartz, Peter Schumer, Stephen D. Abbott, Tom M. Apostol, Barry Cipra, Thomas E. Moore, Edward L. Cohen, Phil Grizzard, Ira Rosenholtz, Allen J. Schwenk, Rick Cleary, Dan Faga, Alex Liu, Jason Topel, James Tanton, Donald Saari, Curtis D. Bennett, Sandra Keith, Frank Farris, Timothy Sipka, Douglas Dunham, Dinoj Surendran, Olivia M. Carducci, Judy Green, Thaddeus N. Selden, Bruce F. Torrence, Victor E. Hill IV, Thomas Hull, Philip D. Straffin, Jr., Carl Pomerance, Paul C. Pasles, Rick Gillman, Colm Mulcahy, Robert Schuerman, Steven J. Brams, D. Marc Kilgour, Alex Kasman, Katherine Socha, Michael Starbird, Doug Ensley, Mark Schilling, Roger B. Nelsen, Michael McDaniel