“…Students of computer science, physics and statistics will also find this book a helpful guide to all the basic mathematics they require. …”

“…The "clean slate" approach embraced by this book, coupled with flexible tools designed by Microsoft and the author, will provide you with the statistics, charts, and diagrams necessary to perform a meaningful assessment of your current SharePoint 2007 environment. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Important Concepts Related to Sampling -- Sample -- Population -- Statistics and Parameter -- Census -- Sampling Frame -- Example -- Sampling Error -- Advantages of Sampling over Complete Census -- Reduced Cost -- Less Time-consuming -- Greater Speed -- Greater Accuracy -- Types of Sampling -- Probability Sampling -- Non-probability Sampling -- Probability Sampling -- Simple Random Sampling -- Example -- Systematic Sampling -- Example -- Stratified Random Sampling -- Cluster Sampling -- Example -- Cluster Versus Stratum -- Multistage Sampling -- Sequential Sampling -- Multiphase Sampling -- Non-probability Sampling Procedures -- Convenience Sampling -- Purposive Sampling -- Quota Sampling -- Example -- Distinction Between Probability and Non-probability Sampling -- Sample Size -- Calculating Sample Size -- Summary -- Key Words -- References -- Additional Readings -- Chapter 7: Research Methods -- General Methodology Classification -- The Historical Method -- Nature of Historical Research -- Value of Historical Research -- Types of Historical Research -- Legal Research -- Studying the History of Ideas -- Studying the History of Institutions and Organizations -- Bibliographic Research -- Steps of Historical Research -- Step 1: Selection of the Problem -- Step 2: Formulation of Hypotheses -- Step 3: Collection of Data -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Step 4: Criticism of Data -- External Criticism -- Internal Criticism -- Step 5: Interpretation of Data and Reporting of Findings -- Descriptive Research -- Meaning of Descriptive Research -- Value of Descriptive Research in Education -- Steps in Descriptive Research -- Purpose of Descriptive Research -- Features of Descriptive Research -- Significance of Descriptive Research -- Types of Descriptive Research -- Survey-type Research -- Interrelationship Studies -- Causal-comparative Studies…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The danger of summary statistics -- Making data visualization work for you -- Three tools for visualizing BigQuery data -- Simple yet basic - Google Data Studio -- Getting started -- Making a scatterplot in Data Studio -- Making a map in Data Studio -- Other features of Data Studio -- Simple, fairly flexible, but with a cost - Tableau -- Getting started -- Map charts in Tableau -- Create a word cloud in Tableau -- Complex but with considerable flexibility - the R programming language -- Getting started -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Google Cloud Pub/Sub -- Introduction -- Getting started with Cloud Pub/Sub -- Cloud Pub/Sub via Google Cloud Console -- Cloud Pub/Sub via Google Cloud SDK -- Cloud Pub/Sub pricing -- Message output formats -- Importing message data into BigQuery -- Google Cloud Dataprep -- Summary -- Further reading -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Dedication -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning -- Introduction - classic and adaptive machines -- Descriptive analysis -- Predictive analysis -- Only learning matters -- Supervised learning -- Unsupervised learning -- Semi-supervised learning -- Reinforcement learning -- Computational neuroscience -- Beyond machine learning - deep learning and bio-inspired adaptive systems -- Machine learning and big data -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Important Elements in Machine Learning -- Data formats -- Multiclass strategies -- One-vs-all -- One-vs-one -- Learnability -- Underfitting and overfitting -- Error measures and cost functions -- PAC learning -- Introduction to statistical learning concepts -- MAP learning -- Maximum likelihood learning -- Class balancing -- Resampling with replacement -- SMOTE resampling -- Elements of information theory -- Entropy -- Cross-entropy and mutual information -- Divergence measures between two probability distributions -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Feature Selection and Feature Engineering -- scikit-learn toy datasets -- Creating training and test sets -- Managing categorical data -- Managing missing features -- Data scaling and normalization -- Whitening -- Feature selection and filtering -- Principal Component Analysis -- Non-Negative Matrix Factorization -- Sparse PCA -- Kernel PCA -- Independent Component Analysis -- Atom extraction and dictionary learning -- Visualizing high-dimensional datasets using t-SNE -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Regression Algorithms -- Linear models for regression -- A bidimensional example -- Linear regression with scikit-learn and higher dimensionality -- R2 score -- Explained variance -- Regressor analytic expression -- Ridge, Lasso, and ElasticNet -- Ridge -- Lasso…”

“…Join the fight for better code! Use statistics and data science to uncover both problematic code and the behavioral patterns of the developers who build your software. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The basis of market economics: an ability to agree terms -- From auction to liquid marketplace -- Highly liquid markets create their own money -- Technology and the emergence of new value -- 'Logistics and statistics': twins from the same parent -- More potential participants increase the market price of an asset -- Time and investment -- Conservative investors: the perfect bubble-blowers -- Not exactly classical -- The propagation of market crises, even with no prospect of default -- Why we do not see financial crises coming? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 11 Test -- Chapter 11 Solutions -- Chapter 11 Test Solutions -- Chapter 12 Summary of Functions -- 12.1 Cubic, Square Root, and Cube Root Functions -- Exercises -- Questions to Think About -- 12.2 Piecewise Functions -- Exercises -- 12.3 Transformations of Functions -- Exercises -- Questions to Think About -- 12.4 Average Rate of Change of Functions -- Exercises -- 12.5 Comparing Functions -- Exercises -- Chapter 12 Test -- Chapter 12 Solutions -- Chapter 12 Test Solutions -- Chapter 13 Statistics -- 13.1 Two‐Way Tables -- Exercises -- 13.2 Dotplots and Histograms -- Exercises -- Questions to Think About -- 13.3 Shape, Center, and Spread -- Exercises -- Questions to Think About -- 13.4 Scatterplots and Regression -- Exercises -- Questions to Think About -- Chapter 13 Test -- Review Test 2: Chapters 8-13 -- Chapter 13 Solutions -- Chapter 13 Test Solutions -- Review Test 2 Solutions -- Formulas -- Glossary of Mathematical Symbols -- Glossary of Mathematical Terms -- About the Authors -- Index -- EULA…”

“…Due to COVID-19, the conference was held virtually on August 13–15, 2021, jointly held by the School of Mathematics of Renmin University of China, the Engineering Research Center of Financial Computing and Digital Engineering of Ministry of Education, the Statistics and Big Data Research Institute of Renmin University of China, the Blockchain Research Institute of Renmin University of China, the Zhongguancun Internet Finance Research Institute, and the Renmin University Press…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ibsen's "acclimatisation" in the Romanian theatres' repertory -- 3.1.1 General repertory statistics -- 3.1.2 Ibsen in the repertory -- 3.1.3 Final remarks -- 3.2 What is the Romanian national theatre? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Approaching rural innovation in Scotland through case studies and rural data -- Rural proofing innovation -- Defining rural in Scotland -- Rural innovation -- The structure of the rural economy of Scotland -- Firms and labour in rural areas of Scotland -- Sectoral composition of non-metropolitan regions of Scotland -- Size-based composition of firms in Scotland -- Firm age demography across rural areas of Scotland -- Foreign status of firms in rural areas -- Promoting equal opportunities for innovation amid growth in rural Scotland -- Growth in productivity across territories -- The distribution of productivity between firms -- Promoting diversity and inclusion for innovation in rural Scotland -- Older populations -- Women in rural areas -- Foreign-born individuals in rural areas -- Innovation in Scotland -- Annex 2.A. Additional statistics and analysis -- References -- Notes -- 3 Policies and programmes for rural innovation -- Introduction -- Institutional setting and co-ordination mechanisms -- Core implementing agencies for regional and rural innovation -- Vertical and horizontal co-ordination -- Subnational and local initiatives -- City Region Deals -- Regional growth deals -- Scottish framework programmes for promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in rural areas -- National Performance Framework (NPF) -- The Scottish Government's Programme for Government (PFG) -- The National Strategy for Economic Transformation (NSET) -- The National Islands Plan -- The National Population Strategy -- The (new) innovation strategy -- EU and UK policy and financing frameworks within Brexit -- European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and UK investment programmes -- EU Horizon 2020 and UK Research and Innovation -- Policy intervention to foster innovation in rural areas -- Population and access to skills in rural communities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Different types of phishing attacks -- Statistics on the frequency of phishing attacks -- Challenges in detecting phishing emails -- Role of automated detection -- Augmenting existing techniques with natural language processing -- Introducing ELSER -- The role of ELSER in GenAI -- Introduction to the Enron email dataset (ham or spam) -- Seeing ELSER in action -- Hardware consideration -- Downloading the ELSER model in Elastic -- Setting up the index and ingestion pipeline -- Semantic search with ELSER -- Limitations of ELSER -- Summary -- Part 4: Innovative Integrations and Future Directions -- Chapter 9: Retrieval Augmented Generation with Elastic -- Preparing for RAG-enhanced search with ELSER and RRF -- Semantic search with ELSER -- A recap of essential considerations for RAG -- Integrating ELSER with RRF -- Language models and RAG -- In-depth case study-implementing a RAG-enhanced CookBot -- Dataset overview - an introduction to the Allrecipes.com dataset…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Definition of Risk -- Dimensionality of Risk -- Summary Statistics -- Bounding the Technology -- Concern -- MEASURING BENEFITS -- Definition of Benefit -- Expressed Preferences -- Revealed Preferences -- SUMMARY -- IV THE NATURE OF THE CONTROVERSY -- THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN "ACTUAL" AND "PERCEIVED" RISKS IS MISCONCEIVED -- LAYPEOPLE AND EXPERTS ARE SPEAKING DIFFERENT LANGUAGES -- LAYPEOPLE AND EXPERTS ARE SOLVING DIFFERENT PROBLEMS -- DEBATES OVER SUBSTANCE MAY DISGUISE BATTLES OVER FORM, AND VICE VERSA -- LAYPEOPLE AND EXPERTS DISAGREE ABOUT WHAT IS FEASIBLE -- LAYPEOPLE AND EXPERTS SEE THE FACTS DIFFERENTLY -- SUMMARY -- V STRATEGIES FOR RISK COMMUNICATION -- CONCEPTS OF RISK COMMUNICATION -- SOME SIMPLE STRATEGIES -- Give the Public the Facts -- Sell the Public the Facts -- Give the Public More of What It Has Gotten in the Past -- Give the Public Clear-Cut, Noncontroversial Statements of Regulatory Philosophy -- Let the Marketplace Decide -- Put Risk Managers on the Firing Line…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.3.2.1 Precision, Recall, and F-score -- 6.3.2.2 Relative Utility -- 6.3.3 Content-Based Methods -- 6.3.3.1 Content-Based Measures -- 6.3.3.2 Cosine Similarity -- 6.3.3.3 Unit Overlap -- 6.3.3.4 Longest Common Subsequence -- 6.3.3.5 N-Gram Co-occurrence Statistics: ROUGE -- 6.3.3.6 Pyramids -- 6.3.3.7 LSA-Based Measure -- 6.3.3.8 Main Topic Similarity -- 6.3.3.9 Term Significance Similarity -- 6.4 Extrinsic Methods -- 6.4.1 Document Categorization -- 6.4.1.1 Information Retrieval -- 6.4.1.2 Question Answering -- 6.4.2 Summary -- 6.4.3 Examples -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Applications and Future Directions -- 7.1 Possible Directions in Modeling Text Summarization -- 7.2 Scope of Summarization Systems in Different Applications -- 7.3 Healthcare Domain -- Future Directions for Medical Document Summarization -- 7.4 Social Media -- Challenges in Social Media Text Summarization -- Domain Knowledge and Transfer Learning -- Online Learning -- Information Credibility -- Applications of Deep Learning -- Implicit and Explicit Information for Actionable Insights -- 7.5 Research Directions for Text Summarization -- 7.6 Further Scope of Research on Large-Scale Summarization -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A: Python Projects and Useful Links on Text Summarization -- Appendix B: Solutions to Selected Exercises -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.14 Introduction to digital processing2.15 Logic elements; 2.16 Storage elements; 2.17 Binary coding; 2.18 Gain control; 2.19 Floating-point coding; 2.20 Multiplexing principles; 2.21 Packets; 2.22 Statistical multiplexing; 2.23 Timebase correction; References; 3 Processing for compression; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Transforms; 3.3 Convolution; 3.4 FIR and IIR filters; 3.5 FIR filters; 3.6 Interpolation; 3.7 Downsampling filters; 3.8 The quadrature mirror filter; 3.9 Filtering for video noise reduction; 3.10 Warping; 3.11 Transforms and duality; 3.12 The Fourier transform…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2.1.2 Environmental valuation and benefit-cost analysis in neoclassical economics -- 2.1.3 Methods of environmental valuation -- 2.1.3.1 Indirect methods -- 2.1.3.2 Direct methods -- 2.1.4 Statistical estimation models for the CVM -- 2.2 Rationality problems in environmental valuation -- 2.2.1 Biases in Contingent Valuation -- 2.2.2 Rationality problems due to preference uncertainty -- 2.3 Summary -- 3 Rationality in economics -- 3.1 Outline of the chapter -- 3.2 Rationality concepts in economics an overview -- 3.2.1 What is rationality? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…6.2 Extended Descriptive Statistics6.2.1 Demographic, Socio-Economic, and Other Shopper Characteristics; 6.2.2 Loyalty Cards; 6.2.3 Satisfaction and Loyalty; 6.2.4 Purchase Behavior; 6.2.5 Common Loyalty Program Member-Specific Items; 6.2.6 Remaining Coalition Scheme-Specific Items; 6.2.7 Remaining Stand-Alone Scheme-Specific Items; 6.3 Main Model Test; 6.3.1 Reliability and Validity; 6.3.2 Hypothesis 1; 6.3.3 Hypothesis 2; 6.3.4 Hypothesis 3; 6.3.5 Hypothesis 4; 6.3.6 Hypotheses 5a + b; 6.3.7 Hypothesis 6; 6.3.8 The Multi-Partner vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…JACIE accreditation of HSCT programs -- 6. Statistical methods in HSCT and Cellular Therapies -- Part 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.6.2 The boundary layer2.6.3 Turbulence intensity; 2.6.4 Turbulence spectra; 2.6.5 Length scales and other parameters; 2.6.6 Asymptotic limits; 2.6.7 Cross-spectra and coherence functions; 2.6.8 The Mann model of turbulence; 2.7 Gust wind speeds; 2.8 Extreme wind speeds; 2.8.1 Extreme winds in standards; 2.9 Wind speed prediction and forecasting; 2.9.1 Statistical methods; 2.9.2 Meteorological methods; 2.10 Turbulence in wakes and wind farms; 2.11 Turbulence in complex terrain; References; 3 Aerodynamics of horizontal axis wind turbines; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The actuator disc concept…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Performance considerations: implementing PeopleSoft with Parallel Sysplex data sharing -- 2.1 Sysplex performance -- 2.1.1 CF performance monitoring and tuning -- 2.1.2 WLM policies -- 2.1.3 RMF Monitor III - Work Delay Monitor -- 2.1.4 RMF post processor reports -- 2.1.5 RMF Spreadsheet Reporter -- 2.2 Data sharing performance -- 2.2.1 Local buffer pool performance -- 2.2.2 Group buffer pool performance -- 2.2.3 Dynamic statement cache -- 2.2.4 Lock performance -- 2.2.5 DB2PM statistics batch report -- 2.2.6 Table space partitioning -- 2.2.7 Managing DBM1 virtual storage -- 2.2.8 Configuring DB2 sort pool and workfiles -- Chapter 3. …”