Statistics category: 3298 books
Wrigley Field Year by Year
A Century at the Friendly Confines
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
More than just a lavishly illustrated and highly readable book, Wrigley Field Year by Year, originally published in 2014 and updated through the 2018 season, is the result of a quarter century of meticulous research. Written by a baseball historian and recognized authority on the “Friendly Confines,”...
The Numbers Game
The Commonsense Guide to Understanding Numbers in the News,in Politics, and in L ife
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
The Strunk and White of statistics team up to help the average person navigate the numbers in the news
Drawing on their hugely popular BBC Radio 4 show More or Less, journalist Michael Blastland and internationally known economist Andrew Dilnot delight, amuse, and convert American mathphobes...
Smart Baseball
The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law’s iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbers actually work, and exploring what the rise of Big Data means...
by Ed Randall
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2010
Play Ball!
Everything baseball—from the popular Utterly Confused Series
What's a foul ball?
Or a swinging third strike?
New fans, parents, and first-time coaches need no longer be Utterly Confused about baseball, as the popular series introduces the basics of the sport in a fun and easy-to-follow...
The Baseball Economist
The Real Game Exposed
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Freakonomics meets Moneyball in this provocative exposé of baseball’s most fiercely debated controversies and some of its oldest, most dearly held myths.
Providing far more than a mere collection of numbers, economics professor and popular blogger J.C. Bradbury shines the light of his economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Categorical data are quantified as either nominal variables--distinguishing different groups, for example, based on socio-economic status, education, and political persuasion--or ordinal variables--distinguishing levels of interest, such as the preferred politician or the preferred type of punishment...
by Paul R. Rosenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
A sound statistical account of the principles and methods for the design and analysis of observational studies. Readers are assumed to have a working knowledge of basic probability and statistics, but otherwise the account is reasonably self- contained. Throughout there are extended discussions of...
by Umberto Cherubini, Fabio Gobbi, Sabrina Mulinacci
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book presents a novel approach to time series econometrics, which studies the behavior of nonlinear stochastic processes. This approach allows for an arbitrary dependence structure in the increments and provides a generalization with respect to the standard linear independent increments assumption...
Problem Solving and Data Analysis Using Minitab
A Clear and Easy Guide to Six Sigma Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Six Sigma statistical methodology using Minitab
Problem Solving and Data Analysis using Minitab presents example-based learning to aid readers in understanding how to use MINITAB 16 for statistical analysis and problem solving. Each example and exercise is broken down into the exact steps that...
R for Microsoft® Excel Users
Making the Transition for Statistical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.
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Microsoft Excel can perform many statistical analyses, but thousands of business users and analysts are now reaching its...
by Erik Bølviken
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Focusing on what actuaries need in practice, this introductory account provides readers with essential tools for handling complex problems and explains how simulation models can be created, used and re-used (with modifications) in related situations. The book begins by outlining the basic tools of...
Getting Started with Business Analytics
Insightful Decision-Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Assuming no prior knowledge or technical skills, Getting Started with Business Analytics: Insightful Decision-Making explores the contents, capabilities, and applications of business analytics. It bridges the worlds of business and statistics and describes business analytics from a non-commercial standpoint. The authors demystify the main concepts
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014
Predictive modeling involves the use of data to forecast future events. It relies on capturing relationships between explanatory variables and the predicted variables from past occurrences and exploiting this to predict future outcomes. Forecasting future financial events is a core actuarial skill...
Mathematical Risk Analysis
Dependence, Risk Bounds, Optimal Allocations and Portfolios
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
The author's particular interest in the area of risk measures is to combine this theory with the analysis of dependence properties. The present volume gives an introduction of basic concepts and methods in mathematical risk analysis, in particular of those parts of risk theory that are of special...