Artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, big data and other new technologies are ready to revolutionize the way we look at healthcare. But if we want them to achieve their full potential, we'll need leaders who understand these new tools and who have long-term strategies in place to take advantage of them. This book will help you to become one of those leaders. Predictive Medicine makes artificial intelligence more accessible for healthcare practitioners without shying away from complex topics and controversial subject matter. It's a call-to-action for a new generation of health leaders and a roadmap to help them usher in a brighter future.

This guide to small area estimation aims to help users compile more reliable granular or disaggregated data in cost-effective ways. It explains small area estimation techniques with examples of how the easily accessible R analytical platform can be used to implement them, particularly to estimate indicators on poverty, employment, and health outcomes. The guide is intended for staff of national statistics offices and for other development practitioners. It aims to help them to develop and implement targeted socioeconomic policies to ensure that the vulnerable segments of societies are not left behind, and to monitor progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

This laboratory manual is intended for business analysts who wish to increase their skills in the use of statistical analysis to support business decisions. Most of the case studies use Excel,today's most common analysis tool. They range from the most basic descriptive analytical techniques to more advanced techniques such as linear regression and forecasting. Advanced projects cover inferential statistics for continuous variables (t-Test) and categorical variables (chi-square), as well as A/B testing. The manual ends with techniques to deal with the analysis of text data and tools to manage the analysis of large data sets (Big Data) using Excel. Includes companion files with solution spreadsheets, sample files, data sets, etc. from the book. Features: Teaches the statistical analysis skills needed to support business decisions Provides projects ranging from the most basic descriptive analytical techniques to more advanced techniques such as linear regression, forecasting, inferential statistics, and analyzing big data sets Includes companion files with solution spreadsheets, sample files, data sets, etc. used in the book's case studies

Highly Effective Marketing Analytics infuses analytics into marketing to help improve marketing performance and raise analytics IQ for companies that have not yet had much success with marketing analytics. The book reveals why marketing analytics has not yet kept the promise and clarifies confusions and misunderstanding surrounding marketing analytics. Highly Effective Marketing Analytics is a highly practical and pragmatic how-to book. The author illustrates step by step many innovative, practical, and cost-effective methodologies to solving the most challenging real-world problems facing marketers in today's highly competitive omnichannel environment.

This user guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to set up, use, and maintain the statistical business register of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It also outlines the key technical considerations that guided ADB's development of the software. This publication serves as a reference for countries looking to establish statistical business registers of their own using the software solution developed as part of this initiative. Statistical business registers are structured databases that provide information on business establishments and their activities, enabling a country's national statistical system to produce economic statistics and indicators. This helps governments design and implement economic policies that are data-driven.

This publication presents economic statistics relevant for cross-border production arrangements analysis in Hong Kong, China; Japan; Mongolia; the People's Republic of China; the Republic of Korea; and Taipei, China. It was computed from ADB's multi-regional input-output database which serves the increasing demand for structured, relevant, timely, and accurate data, especially with the onset of various economic research projects on global value chains. Supply and use tables and input-output tables in the publication address the emerging need for more systematic and comprehensive approaches in data management, economic analysis, and policy research for national economies around the world.

Intended primarily to prepare first-year graduate students for their ongoing work in econometrics, economic theory, and finance, this innovative book presents the fundamental concepts of theoretical econometrics, from measure-theoretic probability to statistics. A. Ronald Gallant covers these topics at an introductory level and develops the ideas to the point where they can be applied. He thereby provides the reader not only with a basic grasp of the key empirical tools but with sound intuition as well.

In addition to covering the basic tools of empirical work in economics and finance, Gallant devotes particular attention to motivating ideas and presenting them as the solution to practical problems. For example, he presents correlation, regression, and conditional expectation as a means of obtaining the best approximation of one random variable by some function of another. He considers linear, polynomial, and unrestricted functions, and leads the reader to the notion of conditioning on a sigma-algebra as a means for finding the unrestricted solution. The reader thus gains an understanding of the relationships among linear, polynomial, and unrestricted solutions. Proofs of results are presented when the proof itself aids understanding or when the proof technique has practical value.

A major text-treatise by one of the leading scholars in this field," An Introduction to Econometric Theory" will prove valuable not only to graduate students but also to all economists, statisticians, and finance professionals interested in the ideas and implications of theoretical econometrics.

This handbook explains how to use remote sensing technology to estimate rice crop area and production to support food security policymaking in Asia and the Pacific. A substantial portion of the world's rice is produced and consumed in Asia and the Pacific. As much of the region's population depends on rice farming, timely and good quality agricultural estimates and forecasts are essential for effective policy formulation. Recent advances in remote sensing offer a viable alternative to traditional methods of compiling agricultural statistics. This publication outlines methods and tools developed for generating statistics on paddy area and production using remote sensing and GIS techniques. It aims to help national statistical agencies pilot and adopt satellite-based techniques. The handbook complements a massive open online course on crop area estimation developed by ADB.

Recent advancements in data collection will affect all aspects of businesses, improving and bringing complexity to management and demanding integration of all resources, principles, and processes. The interpretation of these new technologies is essential to the advancement of management and business. The Handbook of Research on Expanding Business Opportunities With Information Systems and Analytics is a vital scholarly publication that examines technological advancements in data collection that will influence major change in many aspects of business through a multidisciplinary approach. Featuring coverage on a variety of topics such as market intelligence, knowledge management, and brand management, this book explores new complexities to management and other aspects of business. This publication is designed for entrepreneurs, business managers and executives, researchers, business professionals, data analysts, academicians, and graduate-level students seeking relevant research on data collection advancements.

In businesses and organizations, understanding the social reality of individuals, groups, and cultures allows for in-depth understanding and rich analysis of multiple research areas to improve practices. Qualitative research provides important insight into the interactions of the workplace. Qualitative Techniques for Workplace Data Analysis is an essential reference source that discusses the qualitative methods used to analyze workplace data, as well as what measures should be adopted to ensure the credibility and dependability of qualitative findings in the workplace. Featuring research on topics such as collection methods, content analysis, and sampling, this book is ideally designed for academicians, development practitioners, business managers, and analytic professionals seeking coverage on quality measurement techniques in the occupational settings of emerging markets.