Around the world a multitude of surveys are conducted every day, on a variety of subjects, and consequently surveys have become an accepted part of modern life. However, in recent years survey estimates have been increasingly affected by rising trends in nonresponse, with loss of accuracy as an undesirable result. Whilst it is possible to reduce nonresponse to some degree, it cannot be completely …
A thorough and highly accessible resource for analysts in a broad range of social sciences. Optimization: Foundations and Applications presents a series of approaches to the challenges faced by analysts who must find the best way to accomplish particular objectives, usually with the added complication of constraints on the available choices. Award-winning educator Ronald E. Miller provides detaile…
Экологическое воспитание — важное направление в системе образования подрастающего поколения. В содержании, методах экологического образования появились новые аспекты, которые педагогу следует учитывать. В пособии рассматриваются: теоретические основы экологического образования младших школьников, методика введения экологических вопросов в содержание курса "Окружающий мир", внеурочная деятельность …
A thorough and highly accessible resource for analysts in a broad range of social sciences. Optimization: Foundations and Applications presents a series of approaches to the challenges faced by analysts who must find the best way to accomplish particular objectives, usually with the added complication of constraints on the available choices. Award-winning educator Ronald E. Miller provides detaile…
A thorough and highly accessible resource for analysts in a broad range of social sciences. Optimization: Foundations and Applications presents a series of approaches to the challenges faced by analysts who must find the best way to accomplish particular objectives, usually with the added complication of constraints on the available choices. Award-winning educator Ronald E. Miller provides detaile…
This edited book is divided into three parts: Fundamentals of Medical and Health Sciences Modeling and Simulation introduces modeling and simulation in the medical and health sciences; Medical and Health Sciences Models provides the theoretical underpinnings of medical and health sciences modeling; and Modeling and Simulation Applications in Medical and Health Sciences focuses on teaching, trainin…
Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live.Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extraordinary depth of our kno…
An outstanding introduction to the fundamentals of regression analysis-updated and expanded The methods of regression analysis are the most widely used statistical tools for discovering the relationships among variables. This classic text, with its emphasis on clear, thorough presentation of concepts and applications, offers a complete, easily accessible introduction to the fundamentals of regress…
This highly acclaimed text, now available in paperback, provides a thorough account of key concepts and theoretical results, with particular emphasis on viewing statistical inference as a special case of decision theory. Information-theoretic concepts play a central role in the development of the theory, which provides, in particular, a detailed discussion of the problem of specification of so-cal…
A thorough and highly accessible resource for analysts in a broad range of social sciences. Optimization: Foundations and Applications presents a series of approaches to the challenges faced by analysts who must find the best way to accomplish particular objectives, usually with the added complication of constraints on the available choices. Award-winning educator Ronald E. Miller provides detaile…
A cutting-edge look at the emerging distributional theory of sorting Research on distributions associated with sorting algorithms has grown dramatically over the last few decades, spawning many exact and limiting distributions of complexity measures for many sorting algorithms. Yet much of this information has been scattered in disparate and highly specialized sources throughout the literature. In…
Written by two well-known scholars in the field, Combinatorial Reasoning: An Introduction to the Art of Counting presents a clear and comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methodology of beginning combinatorics. Focusing on modern techniques and applications, the book develops a variety of effective approaches to solving counting problems. Balancing abstract ideas with specific topical co…
Участники театрального кружка решили поставить спектакль, взяв за основу романтическую легенду о лунной принцессе. Однако, понимая, что в наше время никто не поверит, что Луна – «славное местечко» для принцесс, они решают «отправить» её в более далёкие и ещё неведомые края в космосе. В поисках родины принцессы они постепенно узнают о невероятном, полном загадок, совершенно фантастическом и тем не …
Излагаются подходы в применении математики к решению практических, инженерных задач. Эти подходы в последние десятилетия приобретают явные черты технологии, как правило, ориентированной на использование компьютеров. И в настоящей книге рассматриваются поэтапные действия при математическом моделировании, от постановки практической задачи, до истолкования результатов ее решения, полученных математич…
Первокурсник Андо Рэн рискует завалить экзамены и остаться на второй год. Из всех наук особенно тяжело ему дается элекромагнетизм. По счастливой случайности Андо знакомится с очаровательной сотрудницей лаборатории Курю Шиэру, которая как раз проводит опыты в этой области. Курю берется помочь незадачливому студенту. Вместе с героями этой манги вы изучите основные понятия и законы электромагнетизма,…