“…At the core of these debates is a single unifying concern: should political scientists view themselves primarily as scientists, developing ever more sophisticated tools and studying only those phenomena to which such tools may fruitfully be applied? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- GIS practitioners and programmers -- DB practitioners -- Scientists, researchers, educators, and engineers -- Roadmap -- Part 1: Learning PostGIS -- Part 2: Putting PostGIS to work -- Part 3: Using PostGIS with other tools -- Appendixes -- Code and other conventions -- Code downloads -- Author Online -- About the title -- About the cover illustration -- Part 1. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- About the Companion Website -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Statistics and Data Science -- 1.1 Big Data: Predicting Pregnancy -- 1.2 Phantom Protection from Vitamin E -- 1.3 Statistician, Heal Thyself -- 1.4 Identifying Terrorists in Airports -- 1.5 Looking Ahead -- 1.6 Big Data and Statisticians -- 1.6.1 Data Scientists -- Chapter 2 Designing and Carrying Out a Statistical Study -- 2.1 Statistical Science -- 2.2 Big Data -- 2.3 Data Science -- 2.4 Example: Hospital Errors -- 2.5 Experiment -- 2.6 Designing an Experiment -- 2.6.1 A/B Tests -- A Controlled Experiment for the Hospital Plans -- 2.6.2 Randomizing -- 2.6.3 Planning -- 2.6.4 Bias -- 2.6.4.1 Placebo -- 2.6.4.2 Blinding -- 2.6.4.3 Before‐after Pairing -- 2.7 The Data -- 2.7.1 Dataframe Format -- 2.8 Variables and Their Flavors -- 2.8.1 Numeric Variables -- 2.8.2 Categorical Variables -- 2.8.3 Binary Variables -- 2.8.4 Text Data -- 2.8.5 Random Variables -- 2.8.6 Simplified Columnar Format -- 2.9 Python: Data Structures and Operations -- 2.9.1 Primary Data Types -- 2.9.2 Comments -- 2.9.3 Variables -- 2.9.4 Operations on Data -- 2.9.4.1 Converting Data Types -- 2.9.5 Advanced Data Structures -- 2.9.5.1 Classes and Objects -- 2.9.5.2 Data Types and Their Declaration -- 2.10 Are We Sure We Made a Difference? …”

“…A Practical, Interdisciplinary Guide to Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering, Second Edition , provides students and scientists with a detailed mathematical reference for advanced analysis and computational methodologies. …”

“…Readership includes chemists, physicists, materials scientists, nanotechnologists, engineers, biologists, medical researchers, and optoelectronic, environmental and analytical scientists from academia and industry as well as policy makers…”

“…It also endeavours to link the advances in sciences and the events in the life of scientists with the historical and social framework within which they lived. …”

“…The heroes of the book are renowned figures from early eras, such as Cardano, Galileo, Huygens, Leibniz, Pascal, Euler, Lagrange, and Laplace, as well some scientists of the last century: Klein, Poincaré, and Ramanujan. …”

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“…<U+000d><U+000a>In recent years, scientists have made considerable advances in understanding how brain processes shape emotions and are changed by human emotion. …”

“…This book is addressed to scientists and professionals working in the wide area of biomedical engineering, from biochemistry and pharmacy to medicine and clinical engineering. …”

“…When this happens, scientists and engineers can find themselves unprepared in the midst of an intense science policy debate. …”