Distribution-free resampling methods permutation tests, decision trees, and the bootstrap are used today in virtually every research area. A Practitioner s Guide to Resampling for Data Analysis, Data Mining, and Modeling explains how to use the bootstrap to estimate the precision of sample-based estimates and to determine sample size, data permutations to test hypotheses, and the readily-interpreted decision tree to replace arcane regression methods.

Highlights

• Each chapter contains dozens of thought provoking questions, along with applicable R and Stata code
• Methods are illustrated with examples from agriculture, audits, bird migration, clinical trials, epidemiology, image processing, immunology, medicine, microarrays and gene selection
• Lists of commercially available software for the bootstrap, decision trees, and permutation tests are incorporated in the text
• Access to APL, MATLAB, and SC code for many of the routines is provided on the author s website
• The text covers estimation, two-sample and k-sample univariate, and multivariate comparisons of means and variances, sample size determination, categorical data, multiple hypotheses, and model building

Statistics practitioners will find the methods described in the text easy to learn and to apply in a broad range of subject areas from A for Accounting, Agriculture, Anthropology, Aquatic science, Archaeology, Astronomy, and Atmospheric science to V for Virology and Vocational Guidance, and Z for Zoology.

Practitioners and research workers and in the biomedical, engineering and social sciences, as well as advanced students in biology, business, dentistry, medicine, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics will find an easily-grasped guide to estimation, testing hypotheses and model building.

Distribution-free resampling methods-permutation tests, decision trees, and the bootstrap-are used today in virtually every research area. A Practitioner's Guide to Resampling for Data Analysis, Data Mining, and Modeling explains how to use the bootstrap to estimate the precision of sample-based estimates and to determine sample size, data permutations to test hypotheses, and the readily-interpreted decision tree to replace arcane regression methods. Highlights Each chapter contains dozens of thought provoking questions, along with applicable R and Stata code Methods are illustrated with examples from agriculture, audits, bird migration, clinical trials, epidemiology, image processing, immunology, medicine, microarrays and gene selection Lists of commercially available software for the bootstrap, decision trees, and permutation tests are incorporated in the text Access to APL, MATLAB, and SC code for many of the routines is provided on the author's website The text covers estimation, two-sample and k-sample univariate, and multivariate comparisons of means and variances, sample size determination, categorical data, multiple hypotheses, and model building Statistics practitioners will find the methods described in the text easy to learn and to apply in a broad range of subject areas from A for Accounting, Agriculture, Anthropology, Aquatic science, Archaeology, Astronomy, and Atmospheric science to V for Virology and Vocational Guidance, and Z for Zoology. Practitioners and research workers and in the biomedical, engineering and social sciences, as well as advanced students in biology, business, dentistry, medicine, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics will find an easily-grasped guide to estimation, testing hypotheses and model building.

Novelist Phillip Good and mystery writer Paul Anders team up to provide readers with a tale that is part mystery, part thriller, and part a story of Paul's coming of age. Links lead to youtube rock music. The mystery starts with the vultures circling the murdered-girl in the field. The thriller when the killer Paul is pursuing, starts pursuing him. And the not unfamiliar coming-of-age story when Paul, newly-minted degree and rejection letters from all his first-choice medical schools in hand, has to decide how he will spend the rest of his life, a decision complicated by his living in the San Francisco Bay Area during the Summer of Love.

Play a country song backward after your wife has left and what do you get? In Saul's case it was a new career and the opportunity to visit the Antarctic. With luck, he would find a permanent companion and a place he could call home. On his first cruise as a gentleman host, the ship hit an iceberg. On his second, he met a woman he didn't want, who wanted him. On his third, they were waiting for him to step ashore. Was he really just a retired computer programmer?

Like many older men, Phillip had trouble remembering numbers and relating names to faces. He wasn't surprised when he couldn't remember the woman's name, but his wife's? Susan made an excellent wife--she loved to cook and to cuddle. Perhaps, Phillip should have married her to begin with. Then she wouldn't have had to lie. Lynn, his real wife, had warned Phillip what would happen if she caught him with another woman. When he didn't come home, she simply changed the locks and tried, unsuccessfully, to forget. All Phillip's clothing was brand new, his shirts, his underwear, and he'd never worn boxers in his life. Now, if he could just find his car keys. "I knew what my name was; it was on my driver's license; but the address, in another town, proved to be years out of date." When Phillip goes north to San Francisco looking for himself, Susan, Lynn, and Phillip's oldest daughter take off in hot pursuit. "We were the worst of traveling companions; we couldn't even agree on what radio

John Kennedy was President when five young men, one of them white, sat in at a downtown New Orleans lunch counter. The same five sat in at the Tulane University cafeteria months later. The University didn't change its "whites only" policy, nor did Woolworth's, but in May 1961, the Parish School Board announced they would open the Orleans public school system to children of all races. Wood came to New Orleans on his motorcycle looking for adventure. The first night, he crashed a hotel wedding reception, hustled a Bourbon Street strip joint, was swept up in a police raid, got a part-time job as an animal caretaker, and met the women of his dreams-all three of them. For Wood, the integration movement is of no more interest than scenery glimpsed from a passing train, like a sit-in at a five and dime, a meeting of the Congress on Racial Equality, Leander Perez at the Civic Auditorium, a Citizen's Council fund raiser in the Garden District, and a riot at an elementary school.

Divorce and the loss of his job have left Peter at the mercy of a series of psychologists. Teaching at an all-black college in the Deep South promises a new beginning. Within hours after pulling off the Interstate, Pete has an apartment, an answering service, and a new girl friend, Peri Mattox. But the presence of so many blacks makes him nervous. The woman whose job he's taking hasn't left yet and doesn't plan to. Senior faculty resent his existence. And his cover-your-ass boss makes it clear it's to be sink or swim. His position at the college seems increasingly temporary. Changes he thought he'd made to his department (accompanied by all the necessary signatures) never materialize. He turns to Peri for comfort, only to find she is leaving him for a woman. The opening chapter of this novel, an invocation, found Peters in the office of a psychiatrist. In the closing chapter, again in a psychiatrist's office, we view the events of the novel in a completely different light.

A chance encounter with members of an Anti-Nuclear commune leads 30-year old Poul Anders to apply for a position at the San Onofre CA nuclear power plant. The commune's plan calls for Poul to trigger a "small" nuclear explosion that will lead to the closing of all nuclear power plants. Poul's mother died as the result of radiation poisoning, a strong motive for sabotage. But Poul is not a particularly good saboteur. He is easily distracted, by girls for example, and by the work itself. San Onofre traces Poul's gradual penetration of the reactor complex through the initial interview, the security check, the psychiatrist, the simulated alert, the red-badge training sessions, until, with his life finally under control, everything goes wrong.

A year ago, Diana decided to return home, get a teaching credential, and work with kids as mixed up as herself. Going through the boxes in the garage, the stuff her family had been lugging around for as long as she could remember, she found a record of another dropout from another generation. Her father's Berkeley Barb articles were in those boxes, along with some short-story attempts, and the responses to Aimai Cristen's ad in the Barb's personal column. She wanted to discuss them. Her professor father was reluctant, afraid where their discussions might lead. " Young attractive girl, 24, searching for love, compassion, joy from a man who can provide financial security. Write Aimai Cristen, Barb Box 3689, Barb Office, 1234 University Ave, Berkeley CA 94709." An odyssey through the late 1960's from L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium to Berkeley and Altamont, this novel describes a daughter's search today for her father and herself.

Thirteen short stories by Phillip Good ranging from 800 to 7000 words in length describe various stages in relationships from first meetings to break ups. Three homeless women go to a dance, a young girl meets a silkie, and a new divorcee joins the Flying Dutchman on the back of his motorcycle.

A sleeping figure is easy prey for impulse criminals, unruly adolescents, and even other homeless men. But in these fourteen stories, Pinkie survives fires, floods, and attacks, works without pay, and still is able to make the weekly dance and, for a few short hours, feel human again.