Books by Alan Miller

The revolutionary story of a 10-year sprint to reduce 'super climate pollutants', cut global warming in half, and avert catastrophe.

This book explores how social order is produced and maintained in Japan and explains why social order is high in Japan. It presents a wide range of scholarship on Japan, ranging from studies by criminologists to religious studies to the most current social psychological studies.

Originally published in 1990, Subset Selection in Regression filled a gap in the literature, and its critical and popular success endured for more than a decade. The second edition continues that tradition and remains dedicated to the techniques for fitting and choosing models that are linear in their parameters and to understanding and correcting the bias introduced by selecting a model. The author thoroughly updated each chapter, added material that reflects recent developments in theory and methods, and included more examples and references. The presentation is clear, concise, and as the Journal of the American Statistical Association reported about the first edition, goes "straight to the guts of a complex problem."

Full Length, Drama / 1m, 2f / InteriorBased on the short novel by D.H. Lawrence, two English women in their 30's are struggling to run an isolated farm, but the hens have stopped laying and the hen house is being raided by a fox. Enter a young soldier who is such an engaging and capable fellow that he is invited to stay on as a hired hand. Who is this mysterious man who eventually dominates life on the farm? "This is the rare adaptation that honors its source while having the guts to depart fro

Deals with the techniques for fitting and choosing models that are linear in their parameters and to understanding and correcting the bias introduced by selecting a model. This title includes a chapter on Bayesian methods and an example from the field of near infrared spectroscopy. It emphasises on cross-validation and focuses on bootstrapping.