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This book describes basic statistical principles from a point of view that makes their shortcomings intuitive and easy to understand. The emphasis is on verbal and graphical descriptions of concepts. The book includes a number of new advances and insights.

Stata and R are two very flexible data analysis packages. This book details how to extend the power of Stata through the use of R. It steps through more than thirty packages written in both languages, comparing and contrasting their different approaches.

This book introduces basic concepts, main results and widely-applied mathematical tools in the spectral analysis of large dimensional random matrices. This updated edition includes two new chapters and summaries from the field of random matrix theory.

This unique resource includes ready-to-use handouts and assessment templates. It sets out a problem-solving evaluative strategy in reading that enables education professionals to identify ways of improving student learning in particularly intractable cases.

Encompassing nearly 70 first papers, this book is a first attempt to revisit the early descriptions of clinical signs - now used as alerts to serious neurologic illnesses - and to chronicle the development of treatment of these acute disorders.

Education and mental health professionals will welcome the information and resources in this book, which will enhance the way they approach the daunting task of developing and evaluating systems-level educational programs for students with ASDs.

This examination of genetic and memetic evolution shows how mental disorders can arise from gene-meme interaction. Offering examples of gene-meme interactions resulting in depression, the author proposes a genetic-memetic model for diagnosing mental illness.

In this visionary book, readers are provided with a living blueprint for promoting the well-being of children and teenagers. The book builds bridges between theory and practice, and provides examples of strength-based community approaches to youth development.

In the decade since its publication, Statistics for Archaeologists has become a staple in the classroom. Substantially updated and containing three brand new sections, this revised edition introduces the basic principles of statistics to archaeologists.

Filling a critical gap in the literature, this much-needed publication is an in-depth analysis of the diverse array of research into adolescents' virtual lives. It sets young people's 'virtual' behavior in the context of contemporary developmental theory.

Blackjack is hugely popular in casinos worldwide. This book analyzes the game in depth, covering its optimal strategies and its financial performance in terms of expected cash flow and associated risk. It is accessible to readers at all levels of skill.

The 4th Edition of this book spans all aspects of airway management: anatomy, equipment, intubation, fiberoptic endoscopy, surgical approaches, intubating LMA, pediatric airway, CPR and mechanical ventilation. Includes tips, 250 illustrations and case studies.

Designed for physicians, the ADHD Handbook answers many questions regarding the disorder. Expanded, updated and revised, this new edition covers recent advances in causes and management of ADHD and includes 400 scientific references to peer-reviewed articles.

Dynamic Epistemic Logic is the logic of knowledge change. This book provides various logics to support such formal specifications, including proof systems. It is suitable for graduate courses in logic. Many examples, exercises, and thorough completeness proofs and expressivity results are included.

This book introduces the key concepts of nonlinear finite element analysis procedures. It explains the fundamental theories of the field and provides instructions on how to apply the concepts to solving practical engineering problems.

Concentrates on how to make predictions about the numbers of each kind of basic state of a quantum system from only two ingredients: the symmetry and linear model of quantum mechanics.

In April of 1992, war began in Bosnia. An immediate exodus began from Bosnia, and people who had never anticipated leaving their country became refugees, dependent upon a world system of resettlement for displaced persons.

This is a rigorous, systematic guide for the professional development of mindfulness practitioners across the range of professional clinical settings. It is also a hands-on text covering both the academic theory and the skills required in teaching mindfulness.

This comprehensive guide provides readers with the knowledge to use archaeological science methods to the best advantage. The guide describes and explains the analytical techniques in a manner that the average archaeologist can understand.

This highly readable book describes fundamental and advanced concepts and methods of logistic regression. The 3rd edition includes three new chapters, an updated computer appendix, and an expanded section on modeling guidelines that consider causal diagrams.

This handbook introduces 40 major mobility models, with numerous associate mobility models to be used in MANET networking environments in the ground, air, space and underwater mobile vehicles and handheld devices. Includes case studies, examples and exercises.

This book examines Relational Competence Theory - the study of traits that allow people to interact with each other effectively - with emphasis on its applicability to interventions, and examines what is robust and verifiable both in the lab and the clinic.

The goal of this ground-breaking volume is to show how neuroscience research is relevant to sociologists and social psychologists as well as examining those areas of neuroscience that can refine and broaden sociological theory.

This is a concise, integrated and coherent presentation of the theoretical framework of nonlinear mechanics, computational methods, applications, parametric investigations of nonlinear phenomena and their mechanical interpretation towards design.

This book addresses fundamental changes that have taken place in Russia in the last five to seven years, including increasing crime in the economy and the shift of power from organized crime and mafia-like organizations to the Organized Corruption Networks.

Investigating the capture and analysis of user's multimodal behavior (mainly eye gaze, eye fixation, eye blink and body movements) within a real controlled environment, this text shows how the response of the computer or environment can be adapted to the user.

This book is unique in the sweep of issues it considers and the way it integrates them under one general philosophical perspective. Vital reading for philosophers of education, educational researchers and social science methodologists.

Insomnia is often undiagnosed, or treated as a symptom of anxiety. This is the first guidebook for clinicians that considers the evaluation and management of insomnia and related sleep disturbances that occur conjointly with the common anxiety disorders.

With growing connections between physics and the life sciences, this text introduces the terminology and the biological systems physicists encounter. It sets out the dynamics of complex systems, and provides a problem-solving challenge from the literature.

This richly illustrated book provides a unique diagnostic reference text for the pathologic diagnosis of infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Superior illustrations accompany carefully written prose to create a useful diagnostic companion.