The need for the development and understanding of large, complex data sets in a wide range of different fields, including economics, chemistry, chemical engineering, and control engineering is very important. In all these fields, the common thread is using these data sets for the development of models to forecast or predict future behaviour. Furthermore, the availability of fast computers ha…
This textbook teaches advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students in Engineering and Applied Sciences to gather and analyze empirical observations (data) in order to aid in making design decisions. While science is about discovery, the primary paradigm of engineering and "applied science" is design. Scientists are in the discovery business and want, in general, to understand the …
This book covers several dimensions of the undercount of young children in the U.S. Decennial Census, examines the data from the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census in detail and looks at trends in the undercount of children over time. Other aspects included are the geographic distribution of the net undercount and an exploration for some of the potential explanations for the high net undercount of chil…
This book covers several dimensions of the undercount of young children in the U.S. Decennial Census, examines the data from the 2010 U.S. Decennial Census in detail and looks at trends in the undercount of children over time. Other aspects included are the geographic distribution of the net undercount and an exploration for some of the potential explanations for the high net undercount of chil…
Research in statistics and probability education has produced a variety of results that would be useful for both secondary and high-school mathematics teachers and the educators of these teachers. Although there are many good textbooks in different countries that describe statistical ideas with a formalisation level adequ…
The first edition of this book has received a very warm reception. A number of instructors have adopted this work as a textbook in their courses. Moreover, both novices and seasoned professionals have been using the book for selfstudy. The enthusiastic response to the book motivated a new edition. One major change is that there are now two authors. The second edition improves the book in se…
Statistical physics describes a wide variety of phenomena and systems when interaction forces may have different natures: mechanical, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, etc. The commonality that unites all these systems is that their belonging to statistical physics requires the presence of thermal fluctuations. In this sense these phenomena necessarily include the thermodynamic aspect. Meanw…
This book is a substantial revision of our Statistical Quality Assurance Methods for Engineers published in 1999 by Wiley. It has evolved with the Iowa State University course that originally motivated the writing of that first book and fairly accurately represents the current technical content of Industrial Engineering 361 at ISU. (The biggest exception to this is that Sect. 6.2 is not for…
This book is an outcome of the CIMPA-UNESCO-MESR-MINECO-MOROCCO research school entitled “Statistical Methods and Applications in Finance and Actuarial Science”. The research school, organized by the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech, in collaboration with the International Centre for Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA), was held in Marrakech and Kelaat M’gouna between 8 and 20 Apr…
The purpose of this book is to present the fundamentals of the theory of superconductivity in a self-contained manner by developing and illustrating every required technique of advanced equilibrium statistical mechanics. It is addressed to graduate and undergraduate students who have finished elementary courses of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. No further background knowledge is req…