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Analyzing Sensory Data with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series)
by Sebastien Le Thierry WorchChoose the Proper Statistical Method for Your Sensory Data Issue Analyzing Sensory Data with R gives you the foundation to analyze and interpret sensory data. The book helps you find the most appropriate statistical method to tackle your sensory data issue. Covering quantitative, qualitative, and affective approaches, the book presents the big picture of sensory evaluation. Through an integrated approach that connects the different dimensions of sensory evaluation, you’ll understand: The reasons why sensory data are collected The ways in which the data are collected and analyzed The intrinsic meaning of the data The interpretation of the data analysis results Each chapter corresponds to one main sensory topic. The chapters start with presenting the nature of the sensory evaluation and its objectives, the sensory particularities related to the sensory evaluation, details about the data set obtained, and the statistical analyses required. Using real examples, the authors then illustrate step by step how the analyses are performed in R. The chapters conclude with variants and extensions of the methods that are related to the sensory task itself, the statistical methodology, or both.
Angewandte Datenanalyse: Der Bayes'sche Weg (Statistik und ihre Anwendungen)
by Daniel BättigAngewandte Datenanalyse, Bayes´sche Statistik und moderne Simulationsmethoden mit dem Computer helfen, nicht direkt messbare Grössen zu bestimmen und Prognosen zu zukünftigen Werten von unsicheren Grössen zu berechnen. Wie dabei vorgegangen werden kann, von der systematischen Sammlung von Daten, von der Frage wie Unsicherheit mit Wahrscheinlichkeiten quantifiziert werden kann, bis hin zu Regressionsmodellen, spannt das Buch den Bogen. Durch seinen systematischen Aufbau mit zahlreichen Beispielen aus der Praxis und seine in vielen Kursen erprobte Didaktik ist das Buch ideal für Studierende in den angewandten Wissenschaften wie Ingenieur-, Natur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften geeignet.
AP Calculus: With 8 Practice Tests (Barron's Test Prep)
by Shirley O. Hockett David Bock Dennis Donovan M.S.Barron's AP Calculus has the content review and practice you need to be ready for the Calculus AB and BC exams. Detailed subject review helps you get a good grasp of the test topics, while practice tests help you apply your knowledge so you know you&’re prepared. Written by experienced teachers who know the test, this edition features:Comprehensive content review covering topics for both AB and BC examsFour practice exams in Calculus AB and four in Calculus BC, updated to reflect the new exam formatAdvice on how to use your graphing calculators efficiently
Applications of Dynamical Systems in Biology and Medicine (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications #158)
by Trachette Jackson Ami RadunskayaThis volume highlights problems from a range of biological and medical applications that can be interpreted as questions about system behavior or control. Topics include drug resistance in cancer and malaria, biological fluid dynamics, auto-regulation in the kidney, anti-coagulation therapy, evolutionary diversification and photo-transduction. Mathematical techniques used to describe and investigate these biological and medical problems include ordinary, partial and stochastic differentiation equations, hybrid discrete-continuous approaches, as well as 2 and 3D numerical simulation.
Applications of Green's Functions in Science and Engineering (Dover Books on Engineering)
by Michael D. GreenbergConcise and highly regarded, this treatment of Green's functions and their applications in science and engineering is geared toward undergraduate and graduate students with only a moderate background in ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. The text also includes a wealth of information of a more general nature on boundary value problems, generalized functions, eigenfunction expansions, partial differential equations, and acoustics. The two-part treatment begins with an overview of applications to ordinary differential equations. Topics include the adjoint operator, delta function, the Green's function method, and the eigenfunction method. The second part, which explores applications to partial differential equations, covers functions for the Laplace, Helmholtz, diffusion, and wave operators. A full index, exercises, suggested reading list, a new preface, and a new brief errata list round out the text.
Applications + Practical Conceptualization + Mathematics = fruitful Innovation: Proceedings of the Forum of Mathematics for Industry 2014 (Mathematics for Industry #11)
by Philip Broadbridge Yasuhide Fukumoto Tsuyoshi Takagi Robert S. Anderssen Kenji Kajiwara Evgeny Verbitskiy Masato WakayamaThis book is a collection of papers presented at the conference "Forum Math-for-Industry 2014" for which the unifying theme was "Applications + Practical Conceptualization + Mathematics = fruitful Innovation" in October 2014. This epigram encapsulates the dynamics of the process that takes an application through to an innovation. Industrial mathematics can be viewed as the causal engine that implements the epigram by taking an Application such as input and convolving it with a mixture of Practical Conceptualization and Mathematics to generate a fruitful Innovation as output. The book illustrates various aspects of the two-way interaction between applications and their association highlighting how practical conceptualization assists with the linking of the question that encapsulates the current application to the relevant mathematics. The contents of this volume address productive and successful interaction between industry and mathematicians, as well as the cross-fertilization and collaboration that result when mathematics is involved with the advancement of science and technology.
Applied Choice Analysis
by David A. Hensher John M. Rose William H. Greene David A. Hensher John M. RoseIn recent years, there has been growing interest in the development and application of quantitative statistical methods to study choices made by individuals. This primer provides an introduction to the main techniques of choice analysis and also includes details on data collection and preparation, model estimation and interpretation and the design of choice experiments. A companion website offers practice data sets and software to apply modeling and data skills presented in the book.
Applied Mathematics: Kolkata, India, February 2014 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #146)
by Susmita Sarkar Uma Basu Soumen DeThe book is based on research presentations at the international conference, "Emerging Trends in Applied Mathematics: In the Memory of Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, S. N. Bose, M. N. Saha and N. R. Sen", held at the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Calcutta, during 12-14 February 2014. It focuses on various emerging and challenging topics in the field of applied mathematics and theoretical physics. The book will be a valuable resource for postgraduate students at higher levels and researchers in applied mathematics and theoretical physics. Researchers presented a wide variety of themes in applied mathematics and theoretical physics--such as emergent periodicity in a field of chaos; Ricci flow equation and Poincare conjecture; Bose-Einstein condensation; geometry of local scale invariance and turbulence; statistical mechanics of human resource allocation: mathematical modelling of job-matching in labour markets; contact problem in elasticity; the Saha equation; computational fluid dynamics with applications in aerospace problems; an introduction to data assimilation, stochastic analysis and bounds on noise for Holling type-II model, graph theoretical invariants of chemical and biological systems; strongly correlated phases and quantum phase transitions of ultra cold bosons; and the mathematical modelling of breast cancer treatment.
Applied Mathematics in Tunisia: International Conference on Advances in Applied Mathematics (ICAAM), Hammamet, Tunisia, December 2013 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #131)
by Aref Jeribi Mohamed Ali Hammami Afif MasmoudiThis contributed volume presents some recent theoretical advances in mathematics and its applications in various areas of science and technology. Written by internationally recognized scientists and researchers, the chapters in this book are based on talks given at the International Conference on Advances in Applied Mathematics (ICAAM), which took place December 16-19, 2013, in Hammamet, Tunisia. Topics discussed at the conference included spectral theory, operator theory, optimization, numerical analysis, ordinary and partial differential equations, dynamical systems, control theory, probability, and statistics. These proceedings aim to foster and develop further growth in all areas of applied mathematics.
Applied Multiregional Demography: Migration and Population Redistribution (SpringerBriefs in Population Studies #0)
by Andrei RogersThis book shows the effectiveness of multiregional demography for studying the spatial dynamics of migration and population redistribution. It examines important questions in demographic analysis and shows how the techniques of multiregional analysis can lead to answers that sometimes contradict conventional wisdom. The book reconsiders conclusions reached in the literature regarding several fundamental common sense demographic questions in migration and population redistribution, including: Is it mostly migration or "aging-in-place" that has been driving Florida's elderly population growth? Do the elderly return "home" after retirement more than the non-elderly do? Does longer life lead to longer ill-health? Do simple population projection models outperform complex ones? For each demographic question it reconsiders, the book begins with a simple empirical numerical example and with it illustrates how a uniregional specification can bias findings to favor a particular, and possibly incorrect, conclusion. It then goes on to show how a multiregional analysis can better illuminate the dynamics that underlie the observed population totals and lead to a more informed conclusion. Offering insights into the effectiveness of multiregional demography, this book serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers searching for a better way to answer questions in demographic analysis and population dynamics.
Applied Multivariate Statistics with R (Statistics for Biology and Health)
by Daniel ZeltermanThis book brings the power of multivariate statistics to graduate-level practitioners, making these analytical methods accessible without lengthy mathematical derivations. Using the open source, shareware program R, Professor Zelterman demonstrates the process and outcomes for a wide array of multivariate statistical applications. Chapters cover graphical displays, linear algebra, univariate, bivariate and multivariate normal distributions, factor methods, linear regression, discrimination and classification, clustering, time series models, and additional methods. Zelterman uses practical examples from diverse disciplines to welcome readers from a variety of academic specialties. Those with backgrounds in statistics will learn new methods while they review more familiar topics. Chapters include exercises, real data sets, and R implementations. The data are interesting, real-world topics, particularly from health and biology-related contexts. As an example of the approach, the text examines a sample from the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System, discussing both the shortcomings of the data as well as useful analyses. The text avoids theoretical derivations beyond those needed to fully appreciate the methods. Prior experience with R is not necessary.
Applied Number Theory
by Arne Winterhof Harald NiederreiterThis textbook effectively builds a bridge from basic number theory to recent advances in applied number theory. It presents the first unified account of the four major areas of application where number theory plays a fundamental role, namely cryptography, coding theory, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, and pseudorandom number generation, allowing the authors to delineate the manifold links and interrelations between these areas. Number theory, which Carl-Friedrich Gauss famously dubbed the queen of mathematics, has always been considered a very beautiful field of mathematics, producing lovely results and elegant proofs. While only very few real-life applications were known in the past, today number theory can be found in everyday life: in supermarket bar code scanners, in our cars' GPS systems, in online banking, etc. Starting with a brief introductory course on number theory in Chapter 1, which makes the book more accessible for undergraduates, the authors describe the four main application areas in Chapters 2-5 and offer a glimpse of advanced results that are presented without proofs and require more advanced mathematical skills. In the last chapter they review several further applications of number theory, ranging from check-digit systems to quantum computation and the organization of raster-graphics memory. Upper-level undergraduates, graduates and researchers in the field of number theory will find this book to be a valuable resource.
Applied Partial Differential Equations (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics #89)
by J. David LoganThis textbook is for the standard, one-semester, junior-senior course that often goes by the title "Elementary Partial Differential Equations" or "Boundary Value Problems". The audience consists of students in mathematics, engineering, and the sciences. The topics include derivations of some of the standard models of mathematical physics and methods for solving those equations on unbounded and bounded domains, and applications of PDE's to biology. The text differs from other texts in its brevity; yet it provides coverage of the main topics usually studied in the standard course, as well as an introduction to using computer algebra packages to solve and understand partial differential equations. For the 3rd edition the section on numerical methods has been considerably expanded to reflect their central role in PDE's. A treatment of the finite element method has been included and the code for numerical calculations is now written for MATLAB. Nonetheless the brevity of the text has been maintained. To further aid the reader in mastering the material and using the book, the clarity of the exercises has been improved, more routine exercises have been included, and the entire text has been visually reformatted to improve readability.
Applied Simulation and Optimization: In Logistics, Industrial and Aeronautical Practice
by Miguel Mujica Mota Idalia Flores De La Mota Daniel Guimarans SerranoPresenting techniques, case-studies and methodologies that combine the use of simulation approaches with optimization techniques for facing problems in manufacturing, logistics, or aeronautical problems, this book provides solutions to common industrial problems in several fields, which range from manufacturing to aviation problems, where the common denominator is the combination of simulation's flexibility with optimization techniques' robustness. Providing readers with a comprehensive guide to tackle similar issues in industrial environments, this text explores novel ways to face industrial problems through hybrid approaches (simulation-optimization) that benefit from the advantages of both paradigms, in order to give solutions to important problems in service industry, production processes, or supply chains, such as scheduling, routing problems and resource allocations, among others.
Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration
by Kenneth J. Meier Jeffrey L. Brudney John BohteAs the first book ever published for public administration statistics courses, APPLIED STATISTICS FOR PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT ADMINISTRATION makes a difficult subject accessible to students and practitioners of public administration and to non-profit studies who have little background in statistics or research methods. Steeped in experience and practice, this landmark text remains the first and best in research methods and statistics for students and practitioners in public-and nonprofit-administration. All statistical techniques used by public administration professionals are covered, and all examples in the text relate to public administration and the nonprofit sector. Avoiding jargon and formula, this text uses a step-by-step approach that facilitates student learning.
Applied Statistics in Biomedicine and Clinical Trials Design: Selected Papers from 2013 ICSA/ISBS Joint Statistical Meetings (ICSA Book Series in Statistics)
by Zhen Chen Aiyi Liu Yongming Qu Larry Tang Naitee Ting Yi TsongThis volume is a unique combination of papers that cover critical topics in biostatistics from academic, government, and industry perspectives. The 6 sections cover Bayesian methods in biomedical research; Diagnostic medicine and classification; Innovative Clinical Trials Design; Modelling and Data Analysis; Personalized Medicine; and Statistical Genomics. The real world applications are in clinical trials, diagnostic medicine and genetics. The peer-reviewed contributions were solicited and selected from some 400 presentations at the annual meeting of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA), held with the International Society for Biopharmaceutical Statistics (ISBS). The conference was held in Bethesda in June 2013, and the material has been subsequently edited and expanded to cover the most recent developments.
Approaches to Qualitative Research in Mathematics Education: Examples of Methodology and Methods (Advances in Mathematics Education)
by Norma Presmeg Angelika Bikner-Ahsbahs Christine KnippingThis volume documents a range of qualitative research approaches emerged within mathematics education over the last three decades, whilst at the same time revealing their underlying methodologies. Continuing the discussion as begun in the two 2003 ZDM issues dedicated to qualitative empirical methods, this book presents astate of the art overview on qualitative research in mathematics education and beyond. The structure of the book allows the reader to use it as an actual guide for the selection of an appropriate methodology, on a basis of both theoretical depth and practical implications. The methods and examples illustrate how different methodologies come to life when applied to a specific question in a specific context. Many of the methodologies described are also applicable outside mathematics education, but the examples provided are chosen so as to situate the approach in a mathematical context.
Approaching the Kannan-Lovász-Simonovits and Variance Conjectures (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #2131)
by David Alonso-Gutiérrez Jesús BasteroFocusing on two central conjectures of Asymptotic Geometric Analysis, the Kannan-Lovász-Simonovits spectral gap conjecture and the variance conjecture, these Lecture Notes present the theory in an accessible way, so that interested readers, even those who are not experts in the field, will be able to appreciate the treated topics. Offering a presentation suitable for professionals with little background in analysis, geometry or probability, the work goes directly to the connection between isoperimetric-type inequalities and functional inequalities, giving the interested reader rapid access to the core of these conjectures. In addition, four recent and important results in this theory are presented in a compelling way. The first two are theorems due to Eldan-Klartag and Ball-Nguyen, relating the variance and the KLS conjectures, respectively, to the hyperplane conjecture. Next, the main ideas needed prove the best known estimate for the thin-shell width given by Guédon-Milman and an approach to Eldan's work on the connection between the thin-shell width and the KLS conjecture are detailed.
Approximation and Online Algorithms: 12th International Workshop, WAOA 2014, Wrocław, Poland, September 11-12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #8952)
by Evripidis Bampis Ola SvenssonThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2014, held in Wrocław, Poland, in September 2014 as part of ALGO 2014. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics such as coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, network design, packing and covering, paradigms for design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms, randomization techniques, real-world applications, and scheduling problems.
Approximation and Online Algorithms: 13th International Workshop, WAOA 2015, Patras, Greece, September 17-18, 2015. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9499)
by Martin Skutella Laura SanitàThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2015, held in Patras, Greece, in September 2015 as part of ALGO 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Topics of interest for WAOA 2015 were: algorithmic game theory, algorithmic trading, coloring and partitioning, competitive analysis, computational advertising, computational finance, cuts and connectivity, geometric problems, graph algorithms, inapproximability, mechanism design, natural algorithms, network design, packing and covering, paradigms for the design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms, parameterized complexity, scheduling problems,and real-world applications.
Approximation of Stochastic Invariant Manifolds: Stochastic Manifolds for Nonlinear SPDEs I (SpringerBriefs in Mathematics)
by Mickaël D. Chekroun Honghu Liu Shouhong WangThis first volume is concerned with the analytic derivation of explicit formulas for the leading-order Taylor approximations of (local) stochastic invariant manifolds associated with a broad class of nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations. These approximations take the form of Lyapunov-Perron integrals, which are further characterized in Volume II as pullback limits associated with some partially coupled backward-forward systems. This pullback characterization provides a useful interpretation of the corresponding approximating manifolds and leads to a simple framework that unifies some other approximation approaches in the literature. A self-contained survey is also included on the existence and attraction of one-parameter families of stochastic invariant manifolds, from the point of view of the theory of random dynamical systems.
Arbeitsbuch Algebra: Aufgaben und Lösungen mit ausführlichen Erklärungen und Hinführungen
by Christian KarpfingerDieses Buch erleichtert Ihnen den Einstieg in das eigenständige Lösen von Aufgaben zur Algebra, indem es Ihnen nicht einfach nur Aufgaben mit Lösungen, sondern vor allem auch Hinweise zur Lösungsfindung und ausführliche Motivationen bietet. Damit ist das Werk ideal geeignet zur Prüfungsvorbereitung, wenn Sie ein tieferes Verständnis der Algebra entwickeln wollen oder wenn Sie sich gerne an kniffligen Aufgaben einer faszinierenden mathematischen Disziplin versuchen. In den mehr als 300 Aufgaben unterschiedlicher Schwierigkeitsgrade durchleuchten wir die grundlegenden algebraischen Strukturen Gruppen, Ringe und Körper, wie sie typischerweise in einer Anfängervorlesung für Mathematikstudierende behandelt werden. Vielfach berufen wir uns in den Lösungen auf Sätze, Lemmata und Korollare des Buches Algebra, Gruppen -Ringe - Körper von Ch. Karpfinger und K. Meyberg. Der Autor PD Dr. Christian Karpfinger lehrt an der Technischen Universität München; 2004 erhielt er den Landeslehrpreis des Freistaates Bayern.
Arithmetic of Finite Fields: 5th International Workshop, WAIFI 2014, Gebze, Turkey, September 27-28, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9061)
by Çetin Kaya Koç Sihem Mesnager Erkay SavaşThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Field, WAIFI 2014, held in Gebze, Turkey, in September 2014. The 9 revised full papers and 43 invited talks presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. This workshop is a forum of mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and physicists performing research on finite field arithmetic, interested in communicating the advances in the theory, applications, and implementations of finite fields. The workshop will help to bridge the gap between the mathematical theory of finite fields and their hardware/software implementations and technical applications.
Arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay Sets of Points in P^1 x P^1 (SpringerBriefs in Mathematics #0)
by Elena Guardo Adam Van TuylThis brief presents a solution to the interpolation problem for arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay (ACM) sets of points in the multiprojective space P^1 x P^1. It collects the various current threads in the literature on this topic with the aim of providing a self-contained, unified introduction while also advancing some new ideas. The relevant constructions related to multiprojective spaces are reviewed first, followed by the basic properties of points in P^1 x P^1, the bigraded Hilbert function, and ACM sets of points. The authors then show how, using a combinatorial description of ACM points in P^1 x P^1, the bigraded Hilbert function can be computed and, as a result, solve the interpolation problem. In subsequent chapters, they consider fat points and double points in P^1 x P^1 and demonstrate how to use their results to answer questions and problems of interest in commutative algebra. Throughout the book, chapters end with a brief historical overview, citations of related results, and, where relevant, open questions that may inspire future research. Graduate students and researchers working in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra will find this book to be a valuable contribution to the literature.
ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques, Second Edition
by William Hohl Christopher HindsDelivering a solid introduction to assembly language and embedded systems, ARM Assembly Language: Fundamentals and Techniques, Second Edition continues to support the popular ARM7TDMI, but also addresses the latest architectures from ARM, including Cortex�-A, Cortex-R, and Cortex-M processors-all of which have slightly different instruction sets, p