Mathematics
mobi |eng | 2013-07-26 | Author:Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett [Provost, Foster]

When working with a classifier that gives scores to instances, in some situations the classifier decisions should be very conservative, corresponding to the fact that the classifier should have high ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Brian Everitt [Everitt, Brian]

168 6 Cluster Analysis Fig. 6.2. Inter-cluster distance measures. Fig. 6.3. Darwin’s Tree of Life. 6.3 Agglomerative hierarchical clustering 169 R> (dm <- dist(measure[, c("chest", "waist", "hips")])) 1 2 3 ...
( Category: Mathematics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-07-11 | Author:Sylvia Nasar

35 In the Eye of the Storm Spring 1959 It was like a tornado. You want to hang on to what you have. You don’t want to see everything go. ...
( Category: Mental Health December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Douglas W. Hubbard

If you have a sample size of 26, which two samples can you use to approximate the 90% confidence interval bounds for the median? The first and last The ninth ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:Uri Bram [Bram, Uri]

Not all that correlates is caused If there’s one statistical maxim which is widely known among non stats-nerds it’s “correlation does not imply causation.” Correlation means, roughly, that two variables ...
( Category: Mathematics December 2,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-12-28 | Author:Ken Binmore

6.3 Richard von Mises Richard von Mises was the younger brother of Ludwig von Mises, who is still honored as a leading member of the Austrian school of economics. However, ...
( Category: Mathematics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Hannah Fry

The game of being faithful We can set this up with a game between two people in an imaginary relationship: Don (in blue) and Betty (in red). Don and Betty ...
( Category: Relationships December 2,2017 )
mobi, azw |eng | 2015-07-13 | Author:Siobhan Roberts

Dateline: Cambridge, 1973. The typical scene featuring Conway loitering in the common room had changed somewhat. Now he could be found crawling around the floor, as if under a hypnotist’s ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-23 | Author:Himanshu Sharma

Lesson 2: Statistical inference Statistical inference (or statistical conclusion) is the process of drawing conclusion from the data which is subject to random variation. Observational error is an example of ...
( Category: Databases & Big Data December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2015-01-08 | Author:Bernard Marr [Marr, Bernard]

Identification (Face Recognition) Behaviour analysis Situation awareness. Face recognition Face recognition is a computer application that can automatically identify or verify a person from a digital image or video frame. ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:Zachary Karabell

8 WHERE’S WALDO? And now we return to the question posed at the beginning of the book: What if you were told that one of the core assumptions that we ...
( Category: Economics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-02-10 | Author:David J. Hand [Hand, David J.]

Selection Bias in Science The law of selection manifests itself in science in what is called “selection bias,” which I mentioned in chapter 2. For example, in the late eighteenth ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-09-23 | Author:Harvard Business Review

broadband boosts well-being as effectively as a robust economy A 10-percentage-point increase in broadband penetration produces the same lift in the population’s subjective well-being as a 2.89% increase in GDP ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dietrich Dorner

Fig. 17. Questions and decisions of good (+-+-+) and bad (♦-♦-v) participants in von der Weth's experiment Fig. 18. Areas of focus for good (+-+-+) and bad (V-v-v) participants over ...
( Category: Mathematics December 2,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:Thomas H. Davenport & Jinho Kim [Davenport, Thomas H.]

When Results Don’t Imply Actions We expect that the results from quantitative analysis will lead to action, but sometimes perfectly good results don’t translate into specific actions, although they are ...
( Category: Education & Reference December 2,2017 )