Book Description
The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.
Author : John Lloyd
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 9780571341689
The eye-popping, gob-smacking, rib-tickling phenomenon that is QI serves up a selection of 1,423 facts to bowl you over.
Author : John Mitchinson
Publisher : Crown Pub
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2010-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307716406
A whimsical treasury of biographical profiles of famous and lesser-known individuals now dead includes hundreds of entries that reveal embarrassing-but-true details typically omitted by official biographers. Co-authored by the award-winning producer of Blackadder and the writer of QI.
Author : Richard McElreath
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1315362619
Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds readers’ knowledge of and confidence in statistical modeling. Reflecting the need for even minor programming in today’s model-based statistics, the book pushes readers to perform step-by-step calculations that are usually automated. This unique computational approach ensures that readers understand enough of the details to make reasonable choices and interpretations in their own modeling work. The text presents generalized linear multilevel models from a Bayesian perspective, relying on a simple logical interpretation of Bayesian probability and maximum entropy. It covers from the basics of regression to multilevel models. The author also discusses measurement error, missing data, and Gaussian process models for spatial and network autocorrelation. By using complete R code examples throughout, this book provides a practical foundation for performing statistical inference. Designed for both PhD students and seasoned professionals in the natural and social sciences, it prepares them for more advanced or specialized statistical modeling. Web Resource The book is accompanied by an R package (rethinking) that is available on the author’s website and GitHub. The two core functions (map and map2stan) of this package allow a variety of statistical models to be constructed from standard model formulas.
Author :
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN : 9788177644517
Probability theory
Author : Nancy Castaldo
Publisher : words & pictures
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 19,63 MB
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0711242534
Where does our food come from? What role do farms play? What’s it like to be a farmer? In this charmingly illustrated book, follow a farm throughout the year to discover how the farmer grows fresh and tasty food for us to eat in a sustainable and natural way. Explore the workings of a small-scale, organic family farm and experience the rhythm of farm life. In the spring, visit the chicken coop, till the fields, and tour the farm machinery. When summer comes, plant corn, meet the pollinators, and head to the county fair. In the fall, make pies and preserves, harvest pumpkins, and put the fields to sleep. Winter activities include trimming and pruning the orchard, seed shopping, and baking bread. To conclude your year on the farm, learn what you can do to support the farmers who pick our carrots and raise the cows for our milk. A glossary defines key sustainable farming terms. Through this colorful and intimate look at life on a small-scale farm, children will learn not only how the farm feeds us, but how the farmer must feed and care for the farm.
Author : Martin Aigner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3662223430
According to the great mathematician Paul Erdös, God maintains perfect mathematical proofs in The Book. This book presents the authors candidates for such "perfect proofs," those which contain brilliant ideas, clever connections, and wonderful observations, bringing new insight and surprising perspectives to problems from number theory, geometry, analysis, combinatorics, and graph theory. As a result, this book will be fun reading for anyone with an interest in mathematics.
Author : Bruce Croft
Publisher : Pearson Higher Ed
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0133001598
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice is ideal for introductory information retrieval courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in computer science, information science and computer engineering departments. It is also a valuable tool for search engine and information retrieval professionals. Written by a leader in the field of information retrieval, Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice , is designed to give undergraduate students the understanding and tools they need to evaluate, compare and modify search engines. Coverage of the underlying IR and mathematical models reinforce key concepts. The book’s numerous programming exercises make extensive use of Galago, a Java-based open source search engine.
Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 1995-07
Category :
ISBN : 0788119125
Author : Jean-Jacques E. Slotine
Publisher :
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Automatic control
ISBN : 9780130400499
In this work, the authors present a global perspective on the methods available for analysis and design of non-linear control systems and detail specific applications. They provide a tutorial exposition of the major non-linear systems analysis techniques followed by a discussion of available non-linear design methods.
Author : James H. Speer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 0816526850
This comprehensive text addresses all of the subjects that a reader who is new to the field will need to know and will be a welcome reference for practitioners at all levels. It includes a history of the discipline, biological and ecological background, principles of the field, basic scientific information on the structure and growth of trees, the complete range of dendrochronology methods, and a full description of each of the relevant subdisciplines.