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World Almanac Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1007 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
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The World Almanac is America's bestselling reference book of all time, with more than 83 million copies sold. For more than 150 years, this compendium of information has been the authoritative source for school, library, business, and home. The 2024 edition of The World Almanac reviews the biggest events of 2023 and will be your go-to source for questions on any topic in the upcoming year. Praised as a "treasure trove of political, economic, scientific...
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The New Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"LGBTQ Stats chronicles the ongoing LGBTQ revolution, providing the critical statistics, and draws upon and synthesizes newly collected data. Deschamps and Singer - whose previous books and films on LGBTQ topics have won numerous awards and found audiences around the globe - provide chapters on family and marriage, workplace discrimination, education, youth, criminal justice, and immigration, as well as evolving policies and laws affecting LGBTQ communities....
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Español
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En el Reporte sobre la familia en México 2023 abordamos el cambio tecnológico y la cultura digital. Nuestras vidas han sido transformadas tan radicalmente por los avances tecnológicos de los últimos años que no creemos necesario convencer al lector de su importancia. Este reporte, por lo tanto, tiene un objetivo sencillo: brindar herramientas conceptuales que sirvan de base para reflexionar sobre el tema.
Primero presentamos un panorama del...
4) De la participación destructora a la participación sinérgica: elementos para la observación, análisi
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Español
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Esta obra recoge los últimos avances de la investigación "De la participación destructora a la participación sinérgica", iniciada durante la década de 1980 con el fin de lograr una mayor comprensión de la complejidad de los procesos de participación en la sociedad. En una primera fase, se identificaron tipologías de participación, desde la más negativa o destructora hasta la más positiva o sinérgica. Como marco de referencia se estableció...
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English
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Unlock the mysteries of statistics with this guide to the key concepts and definitions. From famous statisticians to theories and software tools, this book provides a clear and accessible reference to the field of statistics. Written for beginners, it is the perfect resource for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of this rapidly evolving field. With clear explanations, this book is your go-to reference for all things statistics.
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Français
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Tous les sujets mathématiques liés aux statistiques sont présentés dans ce livre :calcul combinatoireprobabilités et statistiques élémentairesVariables aléatoiresdistributions de probabilité continues et discrètesthéorie de l'estimation et test d'hypothèsesrégression et inférence bayésienneprocessus stochastiques
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Español
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Todos los temas matemáticos relacionados con la estadística se presentan en este libro:calculo combinatorioprobabilidad y estadistica elementalvariables aleatoriasdistribuciones de probabilidad continuas y discretasteoría de estimación y prueba de hipótesisregresión e inferencia bayesianaprocesos estocásticos
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Français
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Dans ce livre, des exercices sont réalisés sur les sujets mathématiques suivants :Chaînes de Markov et processus stochastiques markoviensprocessus stochastiques dépendants et indépendants du tempsmarches aléatoires et mouvement brownienDes premières indications théoriques sont également présentées pour faire comprendre l'exécution des exercices.
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Español
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En este libro se realizan ejercicios sobre los siguientes temas matemáticos:Cadenas de Markov y procesos estocásticos markovianosprocesos estocásticos dependientes e independientes del tiempopaseos aleatorios y movimiento brownianoTambién se presentan indicaciones teóricas iniciales para que se comprenda la realización de los ejercicios.
11) Expected Goals
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English
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Football has always measured success by what you win, but only in the last twenty years have clubs started to think about how you win. Data has now suffused almost every aspect of how football is played, coached, scouted and consumed. But it's not the algorithms or new metrics that have made this change, it's the people behind them. This is the story of modern football's great data revolution and the group of curious, entrepreneurial personalities...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, how well, and why. Says Nate Silver: "If you want to understand how the modern NBA came to be, you'll need to read this book." The field of basketball analytics has leaped into overdrive thanks to Kirk Goldsberry, whose spatial and visual analyses of players, teams, and positions have helped us all understand...
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English
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This book provides an accessible introduction to stochastic processes in physics and describes the basic mathematical tools of the trade: probability, random walks, and Wiener and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. With an emphasis on applications, it includes end-of-chapter problems.
Physicist and author Don S. Lemons builds on Paul Langevin's seminal 1908 paper "On the Theory of Brownian Motion" and its explanations of classical uncertainty in natural...
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English
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You'll never watch baseball the same way again. A timeless baseball classic and a must read for any fan worthy of the name, Nine Innings dissects a single baseball game played in June 1982 -- inning by inning, play by play. Daniel Okrent, a seasoned writer and lifelong fan, chose as his subject a Milwaukee Brewers<endash>Baltimore Orioles matchup, though it could have been any game, because, as Okrent reveals, the essence of baseball, no matter...
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English
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In this book, a variety of people share stories about their gambling experiences. The trials and errors, the ups and downs, the good and bad moments. They give you tips and strategies about things that worked well for them and things that didn't. They talk about lessons they've learned on their journey to becoming full-time gamblers. Some people have made millions of dollars, and others have done well enough to have a steady income. Whether you're...
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English
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This book offers a rigorous and self-contained presentation of stochastic integration and stochastic calculus within the general framework of continuous semimartingales. The main tools of stochastic calculus, including It's formula, the optional stopping theorem and Girsanov's theorem, are treated in detail alongside many illustrative examples. The book also contains an introduction to Markov processes, with applications to solutions of stochastic...
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English
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In a world where finance shapes our global economy, mastering the art of quantitative finance is essential. Quantitative Finance and Risk Modeling takes you on a journey into the heart of this dynamic field, exploring the mathematical models and statistical methods that drive modern finance.From understanding the historical evolution of risk modeling to delving into advanced topics like Extreme Value Theory and Machine Learning applications, this...
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English
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Statistical methods are now widely used in different fields such as Business and Management, Economics, Biological, Physical sciences and including the new fields such as Data Science and Machine Learning. The data which form the basis for the statistical methods helps us to take scientific and informed decisions. Statistical methods deal with the collection, compilation, analysis and making inference from the data.This book deals with the statistical...
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English
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We live in a more turbulent world than we like to think. Yet the science we use to analyze economic, financial, and statistical events mostly disregards the world's essentially chaotic nature. We need to get used to the idea that wildly improbable events are actually part of the natural order.
Here, a renowned mathematician and psychologist explains how the wild and mild worlds (which he names Wildovia and Mildovia) coexist, and that different laws...
20) The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves
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English
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In this groundbreaking book, Keith Law, baseball writer for The Athletic and author of the acclaimed Smart Baseball, offers an era-spanning dissection of some of the best and worst decisions in modern baseball, explaining what motivated them, what can be learned from them, and how their legacy has shaped the game.
For years, Daniel Kahneman's iconic work of behavioral science Thinking Fast and Slow has been required reading in front offices across...
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