epub |eng | 2014-08-31 | Author:Fernandez, Oscar E.

xviA general logistic equation looks like p′= ap − bp2, where a and b are numbers. In 1837 the Dutch mathematical biologist Pierre-François Verhulst introduced this mathematical model (with a, ...

epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Denscombe

Key point Positivism is an approach to social research that seeks to apply the natural science model of research to investigations of social phenomena and explanations of the social world. ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-18 | Author:Lomax, Richard G. & Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie L. [Lomax, Richard G.]

Interpreting the output: Annotated results from the Tukey HSD procedure, as one example MCP, are shown in Table 12.2. Note that CIs around a mean difference of 0 are given ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Haigh, John [Haigh, John]

Combining tiny probabilities How likely is it that at least one among an enormous number of events, each having a tiny probability, will occur? This can be the pertinent question ...

epub |eng | 2008-08-18 | Author:Hand, David J.

Understanding probability So that we can discuss matters of uncertainty and unpredictability without ambiguity, statistics, like any other scientific discipline, uses a precise language: the language of probability. If this ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Jack R. Benjamin & C. Allin Cornell [Jack R. Benjamin & C. Allin Cornell]

3.23. Consider the simple model shown of a flexible (long-span) structure resting on two footings. The foundation engineer’s concern is in the relative deflection of the ends of the structure: ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-17 | Author:Louis A. Pipes & Lawrence R. Harvill [Louis A. Pipes and Lawrence R. Harvill]

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-20 | Author:Barbara Oakley

If you don’t make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your “metabolic vampires” can suck away the neural pattern related to that memory before it can strengthen ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Cooke, Roger L.

Chapter 27 Islamic Geometry In the Western world, most of the progress in geometry during the millennium that passed between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the fall ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-03 | Author:Nahin, Paul J.

If out of 12 people at most three die, then we have an event with probability It is a close call, but even with three deaths during its trials, drug ...

mobi |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Mesquita, Bruce Bueno De [Mesquita, Bruce Bueno De]

INCENTIVIZING IGNORANCE Arthur Andersen was driven out of business by an aggressive Justice Department looking for a big fish to fry for Enron’s bankruptcy. Later, on appeal, the Supreme Court ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-06-28 | Author:Bruce Bueno De Mesquita [Mesquita, Bruce Bueno de]

INCENTIVIZING IGNORANCE Arthur Andersen was driven out of business by an aggressive Justice Department looking for a big fish to fry for Enron’s bankruptcy. Later, on appeal, the Supreme Court ...

epub, pdf |eng | 1994-06-22 | Author:Nora Hartsfield & Gerhard Ringel

Notice that if we add the same number, for example 100, to every label in Figure 6.2.4, Kirchhoff’s Current Law still holds at every vertex. If we try this with ...

epub |eng | 1983-12-31 | Author:Breiman, Leo & Friedman, Jerome & Stone, Charles J. & Olshen, R.A. [Breiman, Leo]

APPENDIX The Linear Combination Search Algorithm Suppose that at a given node t, a goodness of split criterion Φ(s, t) is defined. Hereafter, when we say “best split,” we mean ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:Mark Ryan

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 ...