Spatial Data Analysis

It is critical for students to have a complete understanding of how to collect and analyze social science data to understand the nature of crime and theories of crime causation. This updated Fifth Edi

This book addresses recent advances in mining, learning, and analysis of big volume of medical images. The book presents taxonomies, trends and issues such as veracity in distributive, dynamic, and di

Reproducible Finance with R: Code Flows and Shiny Apps for Portfolio Analysis is a unique introduction to data science for investment management that explores the three major R/finance coding paradigm

This guide is for practicing statisticians and data scientists who use IBM SPSS for statistical analysis of big data in business and finance. This is the first of a two-part guide to SPSS for Wi

This book focuses on applications of social network analysis in predictive policing. Data science is used to identify potential criminal activity by analyzing the relationships between offenders to

In sequential analysis, the sample size is not fixed in advance. Instead, data are evaluated as they are collected, and further sampling is stopped in accordance with a pre-defined stopping rule as so

This book will firstly help readers establish the research parameters of land use change and then provide a set of statistical models to effectively process land use change data. Analysis of the resul

This book is essential reading for those working in the fields of music psychology or music education research. A novel applied-musicological approach is applied to the analysis of data, which enables

Originally published in 1992, the editors of this volume fulfill three main goals: to take stock of progress in the development of data-analysis procedures for single-subject research; to clearly expl

Understanding the properties of a reservoir’s fluids and creating a successful model based on lab data and calculation are required for every reservoir engineer in oil and gas today, and with reservoi

• Designed for use by novice computer users, this text begins with the basics, such as starting SPSS, defining variables, and entering and saving data.• All major statistical techniques covered in beg

Computational methods in Power Systems require significant inputs from diverse disciplines, such as data base structures, numerical analysis etc. Strategic decisions in sparsity exploitation and algor

Violent conflict adds daunting challenges to social and economic analysis in poor countries: weak data, difficult access, fluid demographics, unsettled social patterns, insecurity, and political sensi

This intriguing study sheds light on the efficiency of corporate control allocation in Chinese listed firms. Using a panel data set for the period 1996 to 2006, it examines the frequency, causes and c

Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at th

Applied statisticians often need to perform analyses of multivariate data; for these they will typically use one of the statistical software packages, S-Plus or R. This book sets out how to use these

Recent technological breakthroughs, most notably in the field of lasers as well as detection and data processing, have made it possible to apply high-resolution molecular spectroscopy to such areas as

This report explores the potential for phytolith analysis using data collected through the isolation of silica phytoliths (plant microfossils) extracted from archaeological sediment collected at three

數據包絡分析（data envelopment analysis，DEA）是管理運籌學領域中的重要數學工具方法，被廣泛應用於效率評價領域。本書通過理論方法與實踐運用相結合的方式介紹了DEA的常用模型和實踐應用案例。本書內容主要包括CCR模型、BCC模型、SBM模型、超效率DEA模型、交叉效率DEA模型、Cobb-Douglas型DEA模型、考慮非期望產出的DEA模型、網絡DEA模型、成本與資源配置DEA模型、固定和產出DEA模型、固定和投入DEA模型、模糊DEA模型等。本書適合項目管理、工程管理、決策分析等領域的企業管理人員，高等院校高年級本科生、研究生，科研院所研究人員及相關工作者閱讀。

The availability of packaged clustering programs means that anyone with data can easily do cluster analysis on it. But many users of this technology don't fully appreciate its many hidden dangers. In today's world of "grab and go algorithms," part of my motivation for writing this book is to provide users with a set of cautionary tales about cluster analysis, for it is very much an art as well as a science, and it is easy to stumble if you don't understand its pitfalls.Indeed, it is easy to trip over them even if you do! The parenthetical word usually in the title is very important, because all clustering algorithms can and do fail from time to time. Modern cluster analysis has become so technically intricate that it is often hard for the beginner or the non-specialist to appreciate and understand its many hidden dangers. Here's how Yogi Berra put it, and he was right:In theory there's no difference between theory and practice.In practice, there is ~Yogi BerraThis book is a step backwa

Timely and reliable information on natural resources, regarding their potential and limitations, is a prerequisite for sustainable development. Geospatial technologies offer immense potential in providing such information in a timely and cost-effective manner. Using orbital sensors data in conjunction with airborne and proximal sensors to generate information on soils and agricultural resources, forests, mineral resources, fossil fuel, wetlands, water resources, and marine resources, this book focuses on the advancements in technologies applicable to managing these resources. It addresses global issues like climate change and land degradation neutrality and introduces Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) as a mechanism for sharing geospatial data. It also provides in-depth discussion on drones, crowdsourcing, cloud computing, Internet of Things, machine learning, and their applications.Features Provides a comprehensive resource on the latest developments in geospatial technologies and the

University of Nottingham Ningbo China Prof. Patrick Y.K. Chau Singapore Institute of Management Prof. Kwok Kee Wei Hamburg University of Technology Prof. Christian M. Ringle (SmartPLS開發者之一) Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany Prof. Marko Sarstedt 好評推薦!! 蕭教授出版了許多定量方法書籍，是台灣最重要的結構方程模型(SEM)專家之一。在這本書中，他介紹了SPSS分析方法和最新結構方程模型SmartPLS 4的分析技術，對於有興趣在研究中使用SPSS和SEM的新手和高級研究人員，它確實是一本很好的資源和參考書。 ---長庚大學 湯明哲 校長--- *國內第一本全面介紹SmartPLS 4操作，深入探討最新量表發展、中介和調節變數的應用、reflective(反映性)和formative(形成性)指標的發展和模式的指定、PLS-SEM結構方程模式的實用書。 *本書以實用的角度引導學員從學習社會科學概念開始介紹，到完成一份專題、研究生論文和論文投稿，對於大學部專題，碩博士學生，量化的研究人員都有莫大的幫助。 *以統計分析(多變量分析)為主軸，整合了理論的介紹、量化的研究、量表的發展、卡方檢定、因素分析、迴歸分析、區別分析和邏輯迴歸、單因子變異數分析、多變量變異數分析、典型相關分析、信度和效度分析、聯合分析、多元尺度和集群分析，第二代統計技術–結構方程模式(SEM)，正確的多變量分析研究論文參考範例。 *內容涵蓋SmartPLS 4基本操作、PLS-SEM結構方程模式的學習範例、反映性和形成性指標與模式的指定、二階和高階因果關係、SEM結構方程模式實例、中介因子的效果、調節效果、測量恆等性(Measurement Invariance)、MGA呈現的範例、和論文結構與研究範例。 *本書可作為統計分析和多變量分析的教科書，也是Hair, Black, Babin, and Anderson所撰寫的Multivariate Data Analysis多變量分析的最佳輔助參考書籍，更是Hair, Hult, Ringle, and

回顧已知，掌握新知，探索未知。《改變未來的100件事：2022全球百大趨勢》— 寫在後疫情時代，我們該如何面對這種前所未有的生活型態?2022年仍是一個充滿變化的一年，新冠肺炎改變了每個人的生活，人們有了更多的反思，對於一直以來所知的習慣似乎悄悄開始轉變，我們正在擁抱一個更加”零距離”且數位化的未來。 《改變未來的100件事：2022年全球百大趨勢》是偉門智威智庫（Wunderman Thompson Intelligence）年度重量級的趨勢報告，整合全球策略人員的分析報告與數據，列出未來的趨勢、消費者洞察以及創新模式。這本趨勢報告，揭露在全世界各地正在發生的事，它涵蓋了：文化、科技與創新、旅遊與觀光、品牌與行銷、食品、美容、零售、奢華、健康、工作十大領域，提出100件你一定要知道的事。每一個趨勢都代表無數的商機，透過這本書，偉門智威將用最淺顯易懂的方式帶您一起看向未來，掌握趨勢。Review the known, master the new, explore the unknown.2022 The Future 100 published during this post-pandemic era. How do we face this lifestyle we never had before?2022 will be a year full of transformation. COVID-19 has changed everyone’s life. Facing the uncertainty of the future, people have more different reflections. What we know about the past we lived is gone, people start to change to a zero-contact and digital future.2022 The Future 100 is Wunderman Thompson Intelligence’s flagship annual publication. This report combines the analysis and data researched by the strategy team of Wu

Make confident, evidence-based decisions in everyday critical care practice with Critical Care Medicine: An Algorithmic Approach. This first-of-its-kind decision making tool provides concise, practical guidance on key aspects of critical care in the form of easy-to-follow diagnostic and treatment algorithms, diagrams, and tables. The unique format saves you time as it guides you through best practices and reliable data to improve patient outcomes in the ICU.Chapters cover a particular organ system and are organized by disorder for easy reference. Each chapter includes a brief overview of the disorder, diagnostic algorithms, treatment algorithms, potential complications and strategies for overcoming them, and supporting references. Helpful mnemonics and advice from critical care experts are provided throughout. Key topics include ventilatory failure: asthma and COPD; ABG analysis; pleural effusion; acute respiratory failure; infectious disease; psychiatric aspects of critical care; ARDS

World War II played an important role in the trajectory of race and American political development, but the War's effects were much more complex than many assume. Steven White offers an extensive analysis of rarely utilized survey data and archival evidence to assess white racial attitudes and the executive branch response to civil rights advocacy. He finds that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the white mass public's racial policy attitudes largely did not liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany. In this context, advocates turned their attention to the possibility of unilateral action by the president, emphasizing a wartime civil rights agenda focused on discrimination in the defense industry and segregation in the military. This book offers a reinterpretation of this critical period in American political development, as well as implications for the theoretical relationship between war and the inclusion of marginalized groups in democratic societies.

Unique neurointerventional surgery resource analyzes landmark literature to inform optimal patient managementThe field of neurointerventional surgery is rapidly expanding with an ever-accelerating pace of technological innovations. While industry plays a significant role in designing new technology and defining indications for its use, practitioners need to evaluate and determine the most efficacious treatments for their patients. Neurointerventional Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach by renowned endovascular neurosurgeons Min Park, M. Yashar S. Kalani, and Michael F. Stiefel examines the most common disease states in neurointerventional surgery through a critical lens. The unique text leverages evidenced-based data to inform treatment decisions and improve patient outcomes.The text is organized by 5 sections and 32 chapters, including the latest state-of-the-art interventions. Each of the chapters provides critical analysis of the "landmark papers" that established the foundation and

粒子物理標準模型的建立是當代大科學（big science）的典型代表，高能物理實驗是當代大科學工程（large scientifc engineering）的主戰場，海量數據的獲得和分析是當代大數據分析（big data analysis）的典範，而尋找希格斯粒子的大型強子對撞機LHC物理，則是當代大科學研究活動的典型案例。雖然說量子場論突出了大科學理論的性質，大型強子對撞機LHC突顯了大科學裝置的特徵，尋找希格斯粒子體現出大科學工程的特點，尤其是其中對海量數據的處理成為問題的關鍵；但是當代科學的研究範式應該是體現在其中每一個環節，就像本書每一個章節講的就是這個範式的一部分，或者說全書就是以粒子物理學為代表的當代科學研究的典範。全書認為科學研究範式主要考察理論和實驗之間的關係問題，通過考察量子規範場論的理論結構、粒子物理標準模型的實驗研究、希格斯粒子的發現，認為大科學、大數據、大工程是當代科學的特徵，特別是數據分析在理論跟實驗之間起了關鍵作用。

Many books on reliability focus on either modeling or statistical analysis and require an extensive background in probability and statistics. Continuing its tradition of excellence as an introductory text for those with limited formal education in the subject, this classroom-tested book introduces the necessary concepts in probability and statistics within the context of their application to reliability. The Third Edition adds brief discussions of the Anderson Darling test, the Cox proportionate hazards model, the Accelerated Failure Time model, and Monte Carlo simulation.Over 80 new end-of-chapter exercises have been added, as well as solutions to all odd-numbered exercises. Moreover, Excel workbooks, available for download, save students from performing numerous tedious calculations and allow them to focus on reliability concepts. Ebeling has created an exceptional text that enables readers to learn how to analyze failure, repair data, and derive appropriate models for reliability an

Second and Third Generation of Feedstocks: The Evolution of Biofuels presents a critical analysis of published data on both the applications and potential of bioenergy production from second and third

Through analysis of data held by the National Crime Agency on organised crime groups, and in-depth analysis of qualitative interviews with convicted fraudsters and enforcement professionals, this deta

Preprocessing, or data reduction, is a standard technique for simplifying and speeding up computation. Written by a team of experts in the field, this book introduces a rapidly developing area of preprocessing analysis known as kernelization. The authors provide an overview of basic methods and important results, with accessible explanations of the most recent advances in the area, such as meta-kernelization, representative sets, polynomial lower bounds, and lossy kernelization. The text is divided into four parts, which cover the different theoretical aspects of the area: upper bounds, meta-theorems, lower bounds, and beyond kernelization. The methods are demonstrated through extensive examples using a single data set. Written to be self-contained, the book only requires a basic background in algorithmics and will be of use to professionals, researchers and graduate students in theoretical computer science, optimization, combinatorics, and related fields.

This volume is a comprehensive guide to the use of geographic information systems (GIS) for the spatial analysis of supply and demand for energy in the global and local scale. It gathers the latest re

Methods in Pragmatics provides a systematic overview of the different types of data, the different methods of data collection and data analysis used in pragmatic research. It offers authoritative and

Peace and Conflict provides cutting-edge data and analysis concerning domestic and international conflicts and peacebuilding activities, examining future risks of instability, and trends in confl

Peace and Conflict provides cutting-edge data and analysis concerning domestic and international conflicts and peacebuilding activities, examining future risks of instability, and trends in confl

This book is a comprehensive, theoretical, practical, and thorough guide to XAFS spectroscopy. The book addresses XAFS fundamentals such as experiments, theory and data analysis, advanced XAFS m

Pia Nicoletta Blossfeld provides a long-term longitudinal analysis of the stepwise changes in transitions over the educational careers in East and West Germany using data from the National Educational

Over the past fifty years professional understanding of planning has changed markedly. In the past, planning was primarily described as a technical activity involving data collection, analysis, and sy