epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-17 | Author:Gigerenzer, Gerd [Gigerenzer, Gerd]

Prenatal Screening Imagine you are thirty-five and pregnant. In many countries doctors advise all women thirty-five and over to attend screening for Down syndrome. Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, is ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-11 | Author:Hand, David J. [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 ...

epub |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Gregory Chaitin [Chaitin, Gregory]

There is a beautiful essay on the web about this by the quantum computer complexity theorist Scott Aaronson, “Who Can Name the Biggest Number?,” which I highly recommend and which ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-30 | Author:Hamill, Patrick [Hamill, Patrick]

where the As are known functions of the qs. If this relation holds for the dqs, it will also hold for the δqs, so we can write (3.18) But this ...

epub |eng | 2003-04-06 | Author:Frederick Mosteller

In our example with the four measurements 1, 1, 2, and 4, Subscripts on n and σ. In some problems, when we speak of means and variances, more than one ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Patrick Tucker

The End of Teaching It’s January 2012, the setting is the Ethiopian village of Wenchi, which sits on the rim of a volcanic crater lake some eleven thousand feet above ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Ratner, Bruce [Ratner, Bruce]

TABLE 14.7 Logistic Regression of Response on X2, X1X2, and X2_SQ TABLE 14.8 Classification Table of Model with X2, X1X2, and X2_SQ I conclude that the relationship is quadratic, and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Harry F. Davis & Arthur David Snider

(u + Au, v + Av) u + Au, v) FIGURE 4.15 Line and Surface Integrals CHAP. 4 the further approximations dR R(u + Aw, v) — R(u,v) &~Au du ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Stephen White [White, Stephen]

I surfaced again at eleven-thirty. I was hungry, was concerned about Madison, and was continuing to feel some nagging curiosity as to why the DA’s office was procrastinating about arresting ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1921-01-01 | Author:Knut Hamsun [Hamsun, Knut]

We went on talking for a few minutes. I asked her: "When you came in, your face was moved, and your eyes sparkled; you gave me your hand. But now ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Michael Blastland

For calculating MicroMorts, the best data come from the US National Transportation Safety Board statistics on planes carrying at least 10 passengers.20 Looking at the ten years from 2002 to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Banks, Robert B.

TABLE 15.2 About half of the 80 billion people lived between 1,000,000 B.C. and 4000 B.C.; the other half since then. During the nearly 2,000-year period from the year 0 ...

epub |eng | 2005-09-16 | Author:Henry Ernest Dudeney [Dudeney, Henry Ernest]

"Surely you must be wrong, George," said Mrs. Allgood, "for if the posts are a hundred yards apart and it is half a mile farther over the hill, you have ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Mark Denny

Bombs Away In World War I it was difficult to aim from airplanes, as well as to aim at them. From the point of view of those on the planes, ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Fortnow, Lance [Fortnow, Lance]

The Gödel Letter In 1956 Kurt Gödel wrote a letter to John von Neumann, one of the pioneers of computer science and many other fields. In this letter (written in ...