This book is intended as a text for Mathematics students taking their first course in Statistics, and grew out of my second-year course for mathematics undergraduates at EPFL. It is a book on “Statistics for Mathematicians” rather than on “Mathematical Statistics”: the intent is not to focus on the deeper mathematical/theoretical aspects of the subject but rather to provide an intro…
second editions for an overview; what we wrote there is still relevant as an introduction to our subject and the method of the book. For the teacher who has used prior editions, this edition includes over twenty new sections, including the following: }1.5.4 (SIDS tragedies), }5.5.2 (State trooper literacy exam), }8.1.3 (Rheumatoid arthritis drug), }11.1.4 (Exonerations in death-sentence cas…
Encountering Personal Injury is written for anyone who has professional contact with adolescents and adults who have a disability arising from a personal injury. The text provides a comprehensive introduction to the major injury groups for postgraduate students. It covers the conditions commonly experienced in everyday practice, such as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, psychiatric im…
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 comprehensive text collects the progress made in recent years in the fabrication, processing, and performance of organic nanophotonic materials and devices. The first part of the book addresses photonic nanofabrications in a chapter on multiphoton processes in nanofabrication and microscopy imaging. The second part of the book is focused on nanoscale light sources for integrated nanophoton…
This book addresses the cognitive, social, and psychological dimensions that shape students’ mathematics experience to help students become more capable, cooperative, and confident in the process of engaging mathematics. In these ways they can have a more valuable and enjoyable mathematics experience, and become more valued participants in society. The book focuses on the mathematics classroo…
Focusing on organic farming, this book presents peer-reviewed contributions from leading international academics and researchers in the field of organic agriculture, plant ecosystems, sustainable horticulture and related areas of biodiversity science. It includes case studies and reviews on organic agriculture, horticulture and pest management, use of microorganisms, composting, crop rotation, …
This is the first scholarly book to explore the empowerment and the social service role of frontline police officers in the People’s Republic of China. It approaches the study of role strain and empowerment, informed by local empirical data and personal experience. Thematically organized and focusing on those issues of greatest concern to the public, such as the dual social control (informal …
This book explores a major media management topic on the basis of case study research conducted in European, US and Brazilian media companies. More specifically, it examines the dynamics of employee engagement, aiming at organizational development through change. The book contemplates the discipline of Media Management through a management lens and focuses on the concept of employee involvement…
How are the structures of power and the notion of agency among Syrian women during the recent Syrian conflict connected? To explore this matter, Rand El Zein investigates gender politics around displacement, conflict, the body, and the nation. In doing so, she outstandingly reconciles critical media theory as myriad and productive with the theoretical concepts on subjectivity, power, performati…