Applied
epub |eng | | Author:Derek P. Morgan

( Category: Probability & Statistics March 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-03 | Author:Dixit, Avinash K. & Nalebuff, Barry J. [Dixit, Avinash K.]

SCREENING AND SIGNALING You are the chief personnel officer of a company, looking to recruit bright young people who have natural-born talent as managers. Each candidate knows whether he or ...
( Category: Game Theory March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:John R. Pierce

Fig. VIII-5 Codes can be devised which can be used to correct larger numbers of errors in a block of transmitted characters. Of course, more check digits are needed to ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Sharon Bertsch McGrayne [McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch]

13. the cold warrior The Federalist project impressed the still small world of professional statisticians, but John Tukey, a star from the world of Cold War spying, would give Bayes’ ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics February 5,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Strogatz, Steven [Strogatz, Steven]

where x is a city’s size, y is how many cities have that size, C is a constant, and the exponent a (the power in the power law) is the ...
( Category: Applied December 3,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-03 | Author:Dixit, Avinash K. & Nalebuff, Barry J. [Dixit, Avinash K.]

SCREENING AND SIGNALING You are the chief personnel officer of a company, looking to recruit bright young people who have natural-born talent as managers. Each candidate knows whether he or ...
( Category: Game Theory November 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-27 | Author:Ian Ayres

From 90 to 3,000,000 The increase in accessibility to digitalized data has been a part of my own life. Way back in 1989 when I had just started teaching, I ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 18,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:John Paulos

LOGIC AND PSEUDOSCIENCE Since numbers and logic are inextricably intertwined both theoretically and in the popular mind, it's perhaps not stretching matters too far to describe faulty logic as a ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-03-02 | Author:John Allen Paulos [Paulos, John Allen]

LOGIC AND PSEUDOSCIENCE Since numbers and logic are inextricably intertwined both theoretically and in the popular mind, it's perhaps not stretching matters too far to describe faulty logic as a ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Michael J. Mauboussin

Source: Analysis by author. The message that correlation does not equal causality is also relevant. A theory is an explanation of cause and effect, and statistics is a means to ...
( Category: Statistics November 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Dan Ariely

Consider the story of Andrew Potok, a blind writer who lives in Vermont. Potok was a gifted painter who gradually began losing his sight to an inherited eye disease, retinitis ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 7,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Mark Ryan [Ryan, Mark]

The Two Equidistance Theorems Although congruent triangles are the focus of this chapter, in this section, I give you two theorems that you can often use instead of proving triangles ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-28 | Author:Pallant, Julie [Pallant, Julie]

In Chapter 13, on multiple regression, we explored a technique to assess the impact of a set of predictors on a dependent variable (perceived stress). In that case, the dependent ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-26 | Author:Rumsey, Deborah [Rumsey, Deborah]

So how do you interpret the 95%? It goes back to the definition of a confidence level. A confidence level is the percentage of all possible samples of size n ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics September 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Joel Best

LOOK FOR Surprisingly large or small percentages EXAMPLE: NEVER-MARRIED TWENTYSOMETHINGS A newspaper story begins: “Almost three-quarters of men and almost two-thirds of women in their 20s in 2006 said they ...
( Category: Statistics September 15,2014 )