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Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology - Anomalous Diffusion, Front Propagation and Random Searches (Hardcover, 2014 ed.):... Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology - Anomalous Diffusion, Front Propagation and Random Searches (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Vicenc Mendez, Daniel Campos, Frederic Bartumeus
R3,545 R3,220 Discovery Miles 32 200 Save R325 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. Levy processes and anomalous diffusion have shown to be both powerful and useful tools for qualitatively and quantitatively describing a wide variety of spatial population ecological phenomena and dynamics, such as invasion fronts and search strategies. Adopting a self-contained, textbook-style approach, the authors provide the elements of statistical physics and stochastic processes on which the modeling of movement ecology is based and systematically introduce the physical characterization of ecological processes at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. The explicit definition of these levels and their interrelations is particularly suitable to coping with the broad spectrum of space and time scales involved in bio-ecological problems. Including numerous exercises (with solutions), this text is aimed at graduate students and newcomers in this field at the interface of theoretical ecology, mathematical biology and physics.

Advocacy in Academia and the Role of Teacher Preparation Programs (Hardcover): Ursula Thomas Advocacy in Academia and the Role of Teacher Preparation Programs (Hardcover)
Ursula Thomas
R5,239 Discovery Miles 52 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Due to changes in funding and legislation, educating as a career has become unstable. It is imperative to establish a culture that values education in order to encourage pursuing and preserving the profession of teaching. Advocacy in Academia and the Role of Teacher Preparation Programs is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly research on the need of support for students and faculty by examining policy, student engagement, professorial activism, and integrated allied services. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics such as student success, specialty programs, and service learning, this publication is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, and practitioners seeking current research on issues of advocacy in education.

Measurement Across the Sciences - Developing a Shared Concept System for Measurement (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2023): Luca Mari, Mark... Measurement Across the Sciences - Developing a Shared Concept System for Measurement (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2023)
Luca Mari, Mark Wilson, Andrew Maul
R923 Discovery Miles 9 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This open access book proposes a conceptual framework for understanding measurement across a broad range of scientific fields and areas of application, such as physics, engineering, education, and psychology. It addresses contemporary issues and controversies within measurement in light of the framework, including operationalism, definitional uncertainty, and the relations between measurement and computation, and describes how the framework, operating as a shared concept system, supports understanding measurement’s work in different domains, using examples in the physical and human sciences. This revised and expanded second edition features a new analysis of the analogies and the differences between the error/uncertainty-related approach adopted in physical measurement and the validity-related approach adopted in psychosocial measurement. In addition, it provides a better analysis and presentation of measurement scales, in particular about their relations with quantity units, and introduces the measurand identification/definition as a part of the "Hexagon Framework" along with new examples from the physical and psychosocial sciences. Researchers and academics across a wide range of disciplines including biological, physical, social, and behavioral scientists, as well as specialists in measurement and philosophy appreciate the work’s fresh and provocative approach to the field at a time when sound measurements of complex scientific systems are increasingly essential to solving critical global problems.

Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age - Case Studies from Europe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Olof Franck, Peder Thalen Religious Education in a Post-Secular Age - Case Studies from Europe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Olof Franck, Peder Thalen
R2,879 Discovery Miles 28 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyzes the changes and shifts in religious education in Europe over the past 50 years. In a post-secular age, it has become increasingly difficult to make sharp distinctions between what is religious and non-religious, confessional and non-confessional. Reforms in religious education in Sweden in the 1960s appeared as part of a process of wider secular liberalization, giving more credence to the idea of absolute neutrality in religious education. However drastic shifts in society, culture and the European religious landscape raise the need for a reevaluation of the foundations of religious education. Drawing on a range of case studies from across Europe, this book will appeal to students and scholars of religious education as well as post-secular education more generally.

Sustainable Pipe Jacking Technology in the Urban Environment - Recent Advances and Innovations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022):... Sustainable Pipe Jacking Technology in the Urban Environment - Recent Advances and Innovations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Dominic Ek Leong Ong, Marco Barla, Jason Wen-Chieh Cheng, Chung Siung Choo, Minmin Sun, …
R4,250 Discovery Miles 42 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book highlights recent advancements and innovations in trenchless technology via the adoption of combined micro-tunnelling and pipe-jacking techniques. This technique is more environmentally friendly, cost effective, less time-consuming and less disruptive compared to conventional open trench excavations for urban construction and urban infrastructure renewal projects. Pipe jacking is a non-destructive technique used in the installation of underground pipelines using a tunnel boring machine (TBM) and thrust forces derived from the hydraulic jack set-up in a deep jacking shaft. It is popular and commonly used worldwide for the installation of sewer and common services cable tunnels as well as for oil and gas pipelines.

Pragmatic Aspects of Human Communication (Hardcover, 1974 ed.): H.B. Cherry Pragmatic Aspects of Human Communication (Hardcover, 1974 ed.)
H.B. Cherry
R2,981 Discovery Miles 29 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Human Communication' is a field of interest of enormous breadth, being one which has concerned students of many different disciplines. It spans the imagined 'gap' between the 'arts' and the 'sciences', but it forms no unified academic subject. There is no commonly accepted terminology to cover aU aspects. The eight articles comprising this book have been chosen to illustrate something of the diversity yet, at the same time, to be comprehensible to readers from different academic disciplines. They cannot pretend to cover the whole field Some attempt has been made to present them in an order which represents a continuity of theme, though this is merely an opinion. Most publications of this type form the proceedings of some sympo sium, or conference. In this case, however, there has been no such unifying influence, no collaboration, no discussions. The authors have been drawn from a number of different countries. The first article, by John Marshall and Roger Wales (Great Britain) concerns the pragmatic values of communication, starting by considering bird-song and passing to the infinitely more complex 'meaningful' values of human language and pictures. The 'pragmatic aspect' means the usefulness - what does language or bird song do for humans and birds? What adaptation or survival values does it have? These questions are then considered in relation to brain specialisation for representation of experience and cognition."

Researching with Care - Applying Feminist Care Ethics to Research Practice (Hardcover): Tula Brannelly, Marian Barnes Researching with Care - Applying Feminist Care Ethics to Research Practice (Hardcover)
Tula Brannelly, Marian Barnes
R2,291 Discovery Miles 22 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What are the implications of caring about the things we research? How does that affect how we research, who we research with and what we do with our results? Proposing what Joan C. Tronto has called a 'paradigm shift' in research thinking, this book invites researchers across disciplines and fields of study to do research that thinks and acts with care. The authors draw on their own and others' experiences of researching, the troubles they encounter and the opportunities generated when research is approached as a caring practice. Care ethics provides a guide, from starting out, designing and conducting projects to thinking about research legacies. It offers a way in which research can help repair harms and promote justice.

Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies - Educational Research for Social Justice (Paperback): Thalia M. Mulvihill, Raji... Oral History and Qualitative Methodologies - Educational Research for Social Justice (Paperback)
Thalia M. Mulvihill, Raji Swaminathan
R1,437 Discovery Miles 14 370 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Showcases practical approaches to doing oral history work in qualitative educational research Considers how to best do both methodology and output of oral history research Written in the editors' typical accessible style with a range of contributing voices, making it particularly suitable for early career researchers

Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research (Hardcover): Nancy Gerber Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research (Hardcover)
Nancy Gerber
R1,659 Discovery Miles 16 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Imagination and Arts-Based Practices for Integration in Research explores the philosophical assumptions, defining concepts, and methodological issues related to the introduction of intentional imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into some or all phases of investigation, and data integration of particular research approaches. Although typically central to mixed, multi-method, and arts-based research, the practice of integrating diverse forms of data might be applied to other research traditions. The integration of data diversity represents a deviation from traditional scientific thinking demanding a dramatic paradigm shift inclusive of multi-dimensional, nondiscursive, aesthetic, rhizomatic, and imaginative mental processes. In this book, imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices are described and illustrated as approaches to investigating, revealing, and understanding the elusive yet essential meanings hidden in the crevices, shadows, and liminal spaces in between diverse data sets leading to integration, illumination, and synthesis. The book will appeal to arts-based, mixed methods, and adventurous researchers. It walks the reader through the revisionist philosophical assumptions and offers aligned methodological suggestions to the induction of imaginative mental processes and arts-based practices into research.

Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research plus Pearson MyLab Education... Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research plus Pearson MyLab Education with Pearson eText, Global Edition (Paperback, 6th edition)
John W. Creswell
R2,375 Discovery Miles 23 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title is a Pearson Global Edition. The Editorial team at Pearson has worked closely with educators around the world to include content which is especially relevant to students outside the United States. This package includes MyLab. A practical, step-by-step core research text that balances coverage of qualitative, quantitative and combined methods Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research offers a truly balanced, inclusive, and integrated overview of the processes involved in educational research. This text first examines the general steps in the research process and then details the procedures for conducting specific types of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies. Direct guidance on reading research is offered throughout the text, and features provide opportunities for practice. Throughout the 6th Edition, examples are now drawn from a broad range of fields, including program evaluation, multicultural research, counseling, school psychology, and learning and cognition. In addition, enhanced coverage incorporates the latest technology-based strategies and online tools, and more information about single-subject research methods. Reach every student by pairing this text with Pearson MyLab Education MyLab (TM) is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. Pearson MyLab Education helps learners understand the basic vocabulary of educational research, acquire hands-on experience, and get guided practice in understanding research articles and in conducting and reporting their own research. Pearson MyLab Education should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Please be sure you have the correct ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

Ordinal Data Modeling (Hardcover, 1st ed. 1999. Corr. 2nd printing 2000): Valen E. Johnson, James H Albert Ordinal Data Modeling (Hardcover, 1st ed. 1999. Corr. 2nd printing 2000)
Valen E. Johnson, James H Albert
R1,678 Discovery Miles 16 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ordinal Data Modeling is a comprehensive treatment of ordinal data models from both likelihood and Bayesian perspectives. Written for graduate students and researchers in the statistical and social sciences, this book describes a coherent framework for understanding binary and ordinal regression models, item response models, graded response models, and ROC analyses, and for exposing the close connection between these models. A unique feature of this text is its emphasis on applications. All models developed in the book are motivated by real datasets, and considerable attention is devoted to the description of diagnostic plots and residual analyses. Software and datasets used for all analyses described in the text are available on websites listed in the preface.

Research on Negotiation in Organizations (Hardcover): Roy J. Lewicki, Blair H. Sheppard, Robert J. Bies Research on Negotiation in Organizations (Hardcover)
Roy J. Lewicki, Blair H. Sheppard, Robert J. Bies
R3,760 Discovery Miles 37 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume of Research on Negotiation in Organizations focuses on three new and emerging areas in the domain of negotiation and conflict within organizations. In the first section, the problem of "deviance" within organizations is approached from a conflict and justice perspective. Earlier research attention to these issues tended to treat deviance largely as a problem created by selected individuals who did not adapt to the organization, rather than as a systemic problem created by certain organizational conditions. By seeing deviant behavior in organizations as a possible response to unfair treatment, and by employing conflict management concepts to explain how individuals respond to organizational constraints and pressures, the papers in this section extend the work on conflict and justice to a new, rich, and largely unexplored domain.

The second section of this volume addresses an increasingly important challenge in our world - the effective management of environmental conflict; the authors demonstrate factors contributing to the intractability of environmental disputes, and the importance of perceptions of fairness in attaining conflict resolution.

The third and final section offers diverse but important papers in the application of conflict and negotiation to the international environment, including an examination of conflict in a Chinese cultural context, and commentary on the role of power differences in conflict management and negotiation.

Systems - New Paradigms for the Human Sciences (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Gabriel Altmann, Walter A Koch Systems - New Paradigms for the Human Sciences (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Gabriel Altmann, Walter A Koch
R7,079 Discovery Miles 70 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The volume is particularly addressed to the human sciences. It aims to show that these sciences could greatly profit from reframing their problems in the moved spirit of systems theory. The individual sections concern: 1, general systems; 2, semiotics; 3, knowledge and cognition; 4, culture; 5, music; 6, language; 7, literature - 29 authors - among whom one finds e.g. M. Bunge, H. Haken, G. Klit, E. Laszlo, B. Nicolescmu, F. Wuketitis etc - deal with systems in general, they show the application of systems concepts and ideas in individual human sciences, they advance a number of models and hypotheses and offer concrete examples. The volume yields an extensive survey of the history of systems thinking in different sciences and is an excellent state of the art for all pertinent disciplines. It covers relevant concepts as self-organization, evolution, chaos, synergetics, complexity, information, law, theory, cognition, and model building. This collection of essays bears testimony to the mutual penetration and cross-fertilization of all sciences. It is an pioneering enterprise dispensing with the idea of priority of the natural sciences over the human sciences. It closes our century and comes up with a research programme for the next one.

Available to Be Poisoned - Toxicity as a Form of Life (Hardcover): Dipali Mathur Available to Be Poisoned - Toxicity as a Form of Life (Hardcover)
Dipali Mathur
R2,291 Discovery Miles 22 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Available to be Poisoned: Toxicity as a Form of Life, Dipali Mathur contends that the saturation of the planet with toxic chemicals is not the "inevitable" price of progress but marks a deliberate, violent relationship with the Earth and its "others," born of colonialism and capitalism's entwined histories. Mathur offers the innovative concept of "toxicity as a form of life" to signpost the normalization of toxic exposure. Mathur analyzes how states use toxicity to control populations on the fringes of our global political economy. Drawing on three case studies from India, Mathur shows how exposure to toxicity is weaponized to make certain populations "available for poisoning."

Cultural Studies - A Research Annual (Hardcover): Norman K Denzin Cultural Studies - A Research Annual (Hardcover)
Norman K Denzin
R3,948 Discovery Miles 39 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is V3 in the Cultural Studies series edited by Norman K.Denzin

Millennials, Generation Z and the Future of Tourism (Hardcover): Fabio Corbisiero, Salvatore Monaco, Elisabetta Ruspini Millennials, Generation Z and the Future of Tourism (Hardcover)
Fabio Corbisiero, Salvatore Monaco, Elisabetta Ruspini
R2,685 Discovery Miles 26 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines the lifestyles, expectations and plans of Millennials and Generation Z and how they are redefining tourism. It demonstrates that if the tourism industry is to enjoy future growth, it must understand and meet the particular needs of these two generations. The volume explores the present and future challenges faced by the tourism industry as a result of the generational turnover, and seeks to answer the following questions: What contribution can the new generations make to the future of tourism? How are technological advancements and social networks shaping future travel trends? Can a generational perspective be useful to help the tourism industry recover from the COVID-19 crisis? The book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology and tourism studies, as well as tourism professionals.

Advanced Mathematical Methods for Finance (Hardcover, Edition.): Julia Di Nunno, Bernt Oksendal Advanced Mathematical Methods for Finance (Hardcover, Edition.)
Julia Di Nunno, Bernt Oksendal
R2,976 Discovery Miles 29 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents innovations in the mathematical foundations of financial analysis and numerical methods for finance and applications to the modeling of risk. The topics selected include measures of risk, credit contagion, insider trading, information in finance, stochastic control and its applications to portfolio choices and liquidation, models of liquidity, pricing, and hedging. The models presented are based on the use of Brownian motion, Levy processes and jump diffusions. Moreover, fractional Brownian motion and ambit processes are also introduced at various levels. The chosen blend of topics gives an overview of the frontiers of mathematics for finance. New results, new methods and new models are all introduced in different forms according to the subject. Additionally, the existing literature on the topic is reviewed. The diversity of the topics makes the book suitable for graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the areas of financial modeling and quantitative finance. The chapters will also be of interest to experts in the financial market interested in new methods and products. This volume presents the results of the European ESF research networking program Advanced Mathematical Methods for Finance.

Measuring Women's Political Empowerment across the Globe - Strategies, Challenges and Future Research (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Measuring Women's Political Empowerment across the Globe - Strategies, Challenges and Future Research (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Amy C Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl, Farida Jalalzai
R4,941 Discovery Miles 49 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women's political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women's political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for benchmarking and understanding all political empowerment gains across the globe. Chapters improve our global understanding of women's political empowerment through cross-national comparisons, a synthesis of methodological approaches across varied levels of politics, and attention to the ways gender intersects with myriad factors in shaping women's political empowerment. This book is an indispensable resource for scholars of politics and gender, as well as being relevant to a global scholarly and policy community.

Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics - SIS 2016, Salerno, Italy, June 8-10 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Cira Perna,... Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics - SIS 2016, Salerno, Italy, June 8-10 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Cira Perna, Monica Pratesi, Anne Ruiz-Gazen
R2,923 Discovery Miles 29 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book includes a wide selection of the papers presented at the 48th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS2016), held in Salerno on 8-10 June 2016. Covering a wide variety of topics ranging from modern data sources and survey design issues to measuring sustainable development, it provides a comprehensive overview of the current Italian scientific research in the fields of open data and big data in public administration and official statistics, survey sampling, ordinal and symbolic data, statistical models and methods for network data, time series forecasting, spatial analysis, environmental statistics, economic and financial data analysis, statistics in the education system, and sustainable development. Intended for researchers interested in theoretical and empirical issues, this volume provides interesting starting points for further research.

Vital Statistics on American Politics (Hardcover, 2017-2020): Jeffrey L Bernstein, Amanda C. Shannon Vital Statistics on American Politics (Hardcover, 2017-2020)
Jeffrey L Bernstein, Amanda C. Shannon
R5,464 Discovery Miles 54 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There is no other source that provides in one place the wide range and depth of insight found in Vital Statistics on American Politics (VSAP), published since 1988. VSAP provides historical and statistical information on all aspects of American politics: Political parties Voter turnout Public opinion Campaign finance Media perspective and influence, congressional membership and voting patterns The presidency and executive branch Military policy and spending Supreme Court and federal court make-up and caseloads Foreign, social, and economic policy In over 230 tables and figures, students and professional researchers will find chapters devoted to key subject areas such as elections and political parties, public opinion and voting, the media, the three branches of U.S. government, foreign, military, social and economic policy, and much more. This book provides a vivid and multifaceted portrait of the broad spectrum of United States politics and policies. Along with updated and new data content, this edition offers brand new data literacy lessons that take a "guide on the side" approach to teach data researchers how to wade through the sea of data and do the difficult work of grappling for the meaning of the data on their own. Lessons include understanding descriptive representation data, comparing data over time, noticing gaps in data, unpacking dichotomies of public opinion, and more.

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research - Volume XII (Hardcover, 1997 ed.): J.C. Smart Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research - Volume XII (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
J.C. Smart
R5,862 Discovery Miles 58 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor, and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic.

Researching Prisons (Paperback): Jennifer Sloan Researching Prisons (Paperback)
Jennifer Sloan
R1,302 Discovery Miles 13 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Prisons research has very specific skills associated with it, and requires a particular approach to interacting with closed institutions and offending populations. There are many issues that require thought when undertaking prisons research, as well as numerous possible ways to do it. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the different aspects and methods possible in prisons research, allowing the novice researcher to gain some ideas on what is often a relatively secretive practice. After introducing the rationale for prisons research, its methodological and critical context and covering basic practicalities, this book offers a range of tips and tricks for the prisons researcher. It covers key topics such as ethics, the process of choosing methods and prisons research around the world. It is essential reading for students engaged with criminological research methods and for early career researchers.

Bridging the Knowledge Divide - Educational Technology for Development (Hardcover, New): Stewart Marshall, Wanjira Kinuthia,... Bridging the Knowledge Divide - Educational Technology for Development (Hardcover, New)
Stewart Marshall, Wanjira Kinuthia, Wallace Taylor
R3,225 Discovery Miles 32 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In many international settings, developing economies are in danger of declining as the digital divide becomes the knowledge divide. This decline attacks the very fabric of cohesion and purpose for these regional societies delivering increased social, health, economic and sustainability problems. The examples in this book will provide leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community with successful strategies and principles of ICT use in education to address these needs. This book will discuss how educational technology can be used to transform education and assist developing communities to close the knowledge divide. It will provide comprehensive coverage of educational technology in development in different professions and parts of world. The book will provide examples of best practice, case studies and principles for educators, community leaders, researchers and policy advisers on the use of educational technology for development. In particular, it will provide examples of how education can be provided more flexibly in order to provide access to hitherto disadvantaged communities and individuals.

Everyday Utopia - In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home (Hardcover): Kristen Ghodsee Everyday Utopia - In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home (Hardcover)
Kristen Ghodsee
R607 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R69 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Everyday Utopia presents an uplifting tour of better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children, as pioneered by experimental communities throughout the world and across history. The traditional 'nuclear' family home can be a challenging place, but the problem is bigger than that: as a way of organising daily life, it places unfair and unnecessary burdens on women (and men too); it entrenches inequalities, entraps us financially, hinders certain kinds of child development and is in some ways the most fundamental obstacle we face to a fairer society. Also, it doesn't seem to make us very happy. And yet throughout history, and in numerous forward-thinking communities around the world today, great minds and pioneering spirits have sought and often succeeded at alternative ways of living - from the all-female 'beguinages' of medieval Belgium to the matriarchal ecovillages of contemporary Colombia; from the ancient Greek commune founded by Pythagoras, where men and women lived as equals and shared property, to present-day Connecticut, where new laws make it easier for extra 'alloparents' to help raise children not their own. Some of these experiments burned brightly and briefly; others are living proof of what is possible. One of those startlingly rare books that upends our assumptions and raises our sights, Everyday Utopia gathers these and many more inspiring examples into a radically hopeful vision of how to build more contented and connected societies, as well as a practical guide to what we all can do to live the good life every day.

Matrix-Based Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2020): Kohei Adachi Matrix-Based Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2020)
Kohei Adachi
R4,266 Discovery Miles 42 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first textbook that allows readers who may be unfamiliar with matrices to understand a variety of multivariate analysis procedures in matrix forms. By explaining which models underlie particular procedures and what objective function is optimized to fit the model to the data, it enables readers to rapidly comprehend multivariate data analysis. Arranged so that readers can intuitively grasp the purposes for which multivariate analysis procedures are used, the book also offers clear explanations of those purposes, with numerical examples preceding the mathematical descriptions. Supporting the modern matrix formulations by highlighting singular value decomposition among theorems in matrix algebra, this book is useful for undergraduate students who have already learned introductory statistics, as well as for graduate students and researchers who are not familiar with matrix-intensive formulations of multivariate data analysis. The book begins by explaining fundamental matrix operations and the matrix expressions of elementary statistics. Then, it offers an introduction to popular multivariate procedures, with each chapter featuring increasing advanced levels of matrix algebra. Further the book includes in six chapters on advanced procedures, covering advanced matrix operations and recently proposed multivariate procedures, such as sparse estimation, together with a clear explication of the differences between principal components and factor analyses solutions. In a nutshell, this book allows readers to gain an understanding of the latest developments in multivariate data science.

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