Chow Reviews

Teach Yourself Great Web Design in a Week (Teach Yourself Series)

Published in Paperback by Sams (1997-04)

Authors: Anne-Rae Vasquez-Peterson and Paul Chow

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Good for novice bad for intermediate

Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 1998-11-16

A very "Graphic" book comprising of pictures and illustrations. Examples are excellent but lack the serious and more practical aspect of it. The cost of the book bears most of the colour printing and not the content of it. An excellent and inspiring choice for beginners but a rather long-winded version for the more serious ones....as stated behind the book.

Best Book for Newbies

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 1998-11-28

Well-organized and packed with information, I heartily recommend this book. Unlike many "web design" books, the authors really know their stuff and show examples of really well-designed sites. Visually, this book is a treat to read. The authors keep it simple, while giving people the tools and "eye" they need to design appealing web sites. This book didn't waste my money, although I'm an experienced web designer.

Fancy page and great illustration

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 1998-04-12

As usually, I first looked at the physical form of the book. I'm interesting with its full color design. I'm quite sure that this book is expensive enough. And I'm true, it's $49.99. I hoped that the content will equal with the price.

From the user level category at the back cover, I know that this book for New until Casual user. I wonder how it will explain about great web design for new user. After I read and passed chapter to chapter, I have plus mark for this book. It teaches the user how to layout the position of every object in the web page for nice looking purpose. With its full color figures, will make user enjoy their trip to great web design.

But, I have found one big minus mark for this book. It doesn't explain the syntax of HTML itself deeply. It just explains a few of HTML tags, and shows great figure of each example. If new user buy this book, he will be disappointed with the lack of HTML tag explained here.

Finally, for new user that had previous knowledge of HTML syntax or had the HTML Reference Book, buying this book is good for improving the knowledge of web page great design with nice looking. But for the truly new, it's not recommended to buy this book because its lacking of HTML syntax especially frame syntax. For $49.99 it's equal for full color examples and full loaded shareware programs for this book, but not for referencing HTML deeply.

Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Concept and Methodologies (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Applied Probability and Statistics)

Published in Hardcover by Wiley-Interscience (1998-04)

Authors: Shein-Chung Chow and Jen-Pei Liu

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good practical treatment covering FDA guidelines and ICH guidelines as well

Helpful Votes: 20 out of 20 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-13

The authors have experience conducting clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry and this shows in their approach. All the issues that arise in an NDA submission to the FDA are covered. In the introduction the authors describe the regulatory process and the role of the FDA. They even provide organizational charts for the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. I have been working as a senior biostatistician for medical device companies for the last 5 years. Most of the trials I have worked on were regulated by the FDA and a number of issues that have been important to the FDA include (1) multiple comparisons, (2) intention-to-treat versus per protocol analysis, (3) pooling centers, (4) baseline data and demographics, (5) data monitoring and (6) safety. They are all covered in chapters 11 and 12 of this book.
Chapter 10 emphasizes sample size determination and interim analyses are covered in chapter 9. Randomization and blinding are covered in chapter 4. These topics are emphasized because of their importance in regulated clinical trials. One does not find them covered very much in other statistics texts on survival analysis or clinical trials.

The mathematics level is intermediate. The authors write well and incorporate the important practical interplay between the statistician, the clinician and the physician.

They provide many good references. The book is a good reference for anyone interested in clinical trials. Points are illustrated through the use of real trials.

Recent advances in Bayesian methods, resampling and meta analysis are not covered but most important topics are covered including group sequential methods.

good practical guide with FDA examples

Helpful Votes: 33 out of 33 total.
Review Date: 2000-06-28

The authors have experience conducting clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry and this shows in their approach. All the issues that arise in an NDA submission to the FDA are covered. In the introduction the authors describe the regulatory process and the role of the FDA. They even provide organizational charts for the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. I have been working as a senior biostatistician for medical device companies for the last 5 years. Most of the trials I have worked on were regulated by the FDA and a number of issues that have been important to the FDA include (1) multiple comparisons, (2) intention-to-treat versus per protocol analysis, (3) pooling centers, (4) baseline data and demographics, (5) data monitoring and (6) safety. They are all covered in chapters 11 and 12 of this book.

Chapter 10 emphasizes sample size determination and interim analyses are covered in chapter 9. Randomization and blinding are covered in chapter 4. These topics are emphasized because of their importance in regulated clinical trials. One does not find them covered very much in other statistics texts on survival analysis or clinical trials.

The mathematics level is intermediate. The authors write well and incorporate the important practical interplay between the statistician, the clinician and the physician.

They provide many good references. The book is a good reference for anyone interested in clinical trials. Points are illustrated through the use of real trials.

Recent advances in Bayesian methods, resampling and meta analysis are not covered but most important topics are covered including group sequential methods.

GarageBand '08 Essential Training

Published in CD-ROM by lynda.com, Inc (2007-11-19)

Author: Garrick Chow

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garageband 08

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Review Date: 2008-05-02

the training disc explains everything you need to get going with garageband, even i understood it

Limited overview and quite expensive

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-07-04

$50 might represent a point of alignment with standard software manuals - though, in many cases, it's actually a little more expensive. But that's OK, right? I mean, this is video training.
The running time across the training material on the DVD is just over the 5 hour mark - 5:25 from memory. And, as each session is the standard voiceover of a screen recording, it's hardly high production values to warrant the cost/duration equation.

That said, the lessons are clear and well presented in a clearly structured approach that makes learning the application simpler than jumping from printed page to application as would normally be the case.

Keep in mind the short duration and the obvious limitations on what can be covered in that time (it's really no more than what you could expect from a half-day in a classroom) and you'll not be disappointed. I was because I had expected more lessons and more for my money. I won't be using this particular group for software learning in the future. Back to the printed page for me.

Probability theory: Independence, interchangeability, martingales

Published in Unknown Binding by Springer-Verlag (1978)

Author: Yuan Shih Chow

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Second Course on Probability

Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2007-09-29

This book is probably not the first probability book you should read. (You should read Feller's volume I An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications, Volume 1 for the initiation). However, if you like rigor and modern treatment of probability theory, this is for you. It provides a comprehensice treatment of many modern topics in probability which are necessary for many statistical problems. There are beautiful and elegant coverages on independence, exchangeble variables, martingales, U-statistics, and limit theorems. There may be other topics which you have to find from other books, if you use this book as a second probability text. You need to add topics on stochastic processes, such as Markov process and Markov chains, branching process, renewal process, point process, stationary process (both strict sense and wide sense). Of course, these topics may likely to be taught in another separate course on stochastic process. I think the purpose of theoretical probability training is to allow students to use probability tools to understand and develop common statistical theory such as asymptotic statistics and distributional approximations. Probability is also used to model many real-world phenomena and that's another field called Applied Probability, which should be interesting topics for application-oriented students and students from other fields, and should be taught in the first course on probability.

a difficult book

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2000-03-26

This book has been referred by many mathematical economists and I think this book is one of the most excellent books in this field. But this book is written very rigorously and is very difficult to follow. Oh, don't get me wrong! I'm convinced this book will serve the bridge between an elementary level and a more high level.

Cheap Chow Chicago

Published in Paperback by Chicago Review Press (1998-01)

Author: A. LaBan

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Lives up to the title

Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-09-17

My daughter gave me this book a couple of years ago when we visited her in Chicago. I love to try different foods, especially when visiting Chicago, and this book proved a valuable tool. While it is not all-inclusive, there were many good recomendations. Overall I'd recommend this book to anyone visiting Chicago, and to Chicagoans who want soemthing diferent as well.

Chow Chow (Breeders' Best)

Published in Paperback by Kennel Club Books (2005-01-31)

Author: Samuel Draper

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Puppies only

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Review Date: 2006-11-03

This is quite a good book BUT as other Breed books it dwells mainly on the young dog. It would be an improvement if there was more on the adult Chow ie. Grooming, feeding, prefered weights etc.

Chow Chows

Published in Hardcover by TFH Publications (1980-04-02)

Author: Beverly Pisano

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A great book for Chow Chow owners and enthusiasts!

Helpful Votes: 2 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 1999-07-09

This little handbook is a good quick reference for dog lovers. There are a number of pictures and plenty of recommendations for Chow pet supplies. Some of the topics include breeding, showing, Chow history and puppy care.

Chow Chows 2006 Calendar

Published in Paperback by Browntrout Pubs (Cal) (2005-06-01)

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Lotsa Chow!

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Review Date: 2006-06-05

This is a fun calendar with all the great pictures of Chow Chows you would expect. Young and adult Chows, some whimsical, all adorable. If you're a Chow Chow lover, this will certainly satisfy. If you're not, be careful because you might become one!

Dynamic Economics: Optimization by the Lagrange Method

Published in Hardcover by Oxford University Press, USA (1997-02-13)

Author: Gregory C. Chow

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An alternative to Lucas, Sargent and recursive methods

Helpful Votes: 9 out of 9 total.
Review Date: 2004-01-18

Most grad students are taught to solve dynamic equilbrium problems using recursive methods. Two of the prominent books that I am familiar with are:
* Thomas Sargent's Dynamic Macroeconomics
* Lucas and Stokey's Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics

(Note: I see that Sargent has another volume out, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, with Lars Ljungqvist.)

Chow's book presents a Lagrangian method for dynamic optimization. This is a far easier approach than recursive methods, as anyone who is familiar with simple calculus will attest. Chow presents the method then --and this is the real value of this book-- systematically applies it to familiar market equilibrium, financial, business cycle, game theory, and growth models (all dynamic, of course).

BENEFITS:
* Chow's Lagrangian method removes mathematical obstacles to understanding important macroeconomic models
* Chow is a good writer, and this book is far easier to understand than the two books listed above
* This is a great reference for grad students looking for foundations for your own research

Ethics After Idealism (Theories of Contemporary Culture)

Published in Paperback by Indiana University Press (1998-01-30)

Author: Rey Chow

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A Myriad of Academic Interests

Helpful Votes: 4 out of 6 total.
Review Date: 2001-05-17

As literary studies moves into the fields of cultural anthropology, race studies, cultural history, and related fields, Rey Chow's "Ethics after Idealism" fills in these various gaps. The book itself spans the whole gamut from a review of the whole academic scenario in North American universities in the institutionalizing of departments and centres governed by the theme of "area studies", to gender-race issues in cinema and its extrapolations for literary studies, and comparative literary works and pieces of popular culture significant of Hong Kong in general.

Rey Chow's interests are myriad, and it is interesting to see how she challenges some of the vital misconceptions of structuralist thought, such the binary between "fascist" and "pacifist", "technological" and humanized". In one of her illuminating essays, particularly "The Fascists Longings in Our Midst", she makes a lucid and sparkling defence for fascism as a tendency that humanity is generally in danger of making rather than an affliction of a few blighted individuals.

This is an interesting foray into various areas of academic interest, between critical theory and cultural studies and literature from a comparative angle. It should interest undergraduate students of diverse interests and graduate students seeking to upgrade their awareness of the potential of the field of comparative literary studies.

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