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 | 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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 |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 |rus | 1993-10-16 | Author:Huff, Darrell & Irving Geis [Huff, Darrell]

You have achieved something remarkable by careful use of a semiattached figure. The worse things get, the better your poll makes them look. Or take this one: “27 per cent ...

epub | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Levitt, Steven [Steven, Levitt,]

FREAKONOMICS: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Chapter 5 What Makes a Perfect Parent? Has there ever been another art so devoutly converted into a science as ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Ariely, Dan [Ariely, Dan]

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 ...

epub | | 2006-03-25 | Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nine • IT IS EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THAN FRY AN EGG Some technical extensions of the survivorship bias. On the distribution of “coincidences” in life. It is preferable ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Samuel Arbesman [Arbesman, Samuel]

. . . THERE are all sorts of mathematical models for physical systems. Some try to actually mimic the complex mess we see around us, the most well-known of these ...