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This is an interesting book that has quotes from people in various disciplines that who are statistical experts or have used statistical information. The text includes the famous quote of Benjamin Disraeli and the modification by Mark Twain.

There are quotes from Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson and even some famous statisticians like John Tukey, R. A. Fisher, Stephen Stigler and George Box. The quotes are arranged by topics that are listed in alphabetical order. The author and source are given. Sometimes the author is known but the source is unknown.

It appears to be well researched but I did find one error. Peter A. (Tony) Lachenbruch is listed as Peter Luchenbruch.

A nice and important feature of the book is the author index in the back. Each author has a list of topics for which he or she has quotes. The page numbers for theses quotes are given.

There is also an index of topics that lists each author and the page number of their quote under the topic. Ordering is alphabetical throughout.

Also, some cute and sometimes funny cartoons are interspersed throughout the book.

This is an interesting book that has quotes from people in various disciplines that who are statistical experts or have used statistical information. The text includes the famous quote of Benjamin Disraeli and the modification by Mark Twain.
There are quotes from Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson and even some famous statisticians like John Tukey, R. A. Fisher, Stephen Stigler and George Box. The quotes are arranged by topics that are listed in alphabetical order. The author and source are given. Sometimes the author is known but the source is unknown.

It appears to be well researched but I did find one error. Peter A. (Tony) Lachenbruch is listed as Peter Luchenbruch.

A nice and important feature of the book is the author index in the back. Each author has a list of topics for which he or she has quotes. The page numbers for theses quotes are given.

There is also an index of topics that lists each author and the page number of their quote under the topic. Ordering is alphabetical throughout.

Also, some cute and sometimes funny cartoons are interspersed throughout the book.

Professor Hinton's book provides the reader with the best and clearest explanations for potentially difficult subjects such as Types I and II errors, the meaning of the sums of squares in ANOVA, and the interpretation of Pearson's R in regression. Those are topics that many beginners find hard to grasp. If you have learned "how to do" Statistics but are not sure you understand the underlying concepts this book is for you. If you need a theoretically sound review of basic Statistical concepts, at the same time as readable as possible, this book is for you too. Professor Hinton has an incredible way of explaining hard topics in crystal-clear, easily understandable detail. He does not take anything for granted. Even those afraid of Statistics may find pleasure in reading Hinton's book - the pleasure that comes from thoroughly understanding a concept. This is the second edition of a great book.

Interestingly enough, if you go to Professor Hinton's Oxford Brookes University website you will see that he is not listed as a Statistics Professor. According to the website he is responsible for managing the Institute's portfolio of undergraduate modular programmes in Communication, Media and Culture; Early Childhood Studies, Education and Human Development; English Language and Linguistics; Performing Arts; Philosophy; Religion, Culture and Ethics; Sports and Coaching.

Not the typical Statistics author. Certainly not the typical Statistics book. Highly recommended.

The only topics missing from this book that I wish had been discussed are validity (concurrent, longitudinal predictive, diagnostic) and item analysis (difficulty and discrimination indexes). A few pages are devoted to reliability, but I would have liked to see more detailed discussion devoted to the differences between the types of reliability measurement (test-retest, split halves, and parallel forms reliability).
These minor points aside, this book is a wonderfully readable and not at all intimidating introduction to statistics. Highly recommended!

This is a very new and unique book that covers the gamut of statistical issues through all phases of drug development. Shao is a distinguished professor from Wisconsin and Chow teaches at Temple but is known for his long career in the pharmaceutical industry.

The book is good for biostatisticians and regulatory affairs specialists as a reference source. All the key statistical issues are addressed and the reader is given the perspective of the ICH and FDA guidance documents. The underlying statistical methodology that justifies the recommendations in the guidances is presented. This is a state-of-the-art book. Shao and Pigeot produced some of the recent research in individual bioequivalence that established a bootstrap procedure as an appropriate way to construct confidence intervals for the problem. Their method is recommended in an FDA guidance document.

But more than just this one example, all the key issues that have been the subject of FDA workshops over the past several years are addressed in this book. These topics include calibration, assay and assay validation, dissolution testing, stability analysis, shelf life estimation, bioequivalence, randomization and blinding, what constitutes substantive evidence in clinical development, therapeutic equivalence and noninferiority, Bayesian approaches in clinical trials, problems involving missing and incomplete data, longitudinal methods, meta-analysis, quality of life studies and instrument validation, and medical imaging.

Other prevalent issues in clinical trials include group sequential methods, hierarchical Bayesian models and multiple testing. These issues are not covered as much in this text as the others we have mentioned. But there is some discussion of multiplicity in the context of quality of life studies. An example of sequential testing is used to illustrate model selection in Chapter 2. The important issues of design and sample size requirements are presented throughout the book.

While not all topics are covered in sufficient depth, the book is remarkable in the breadth of material covered in just 350 pages of text. The authors also provide a very authoritative list of references and regulatory guidances and other documents.

This is a very new and unique book that covers the gamut of statistical issues through all phases of drug development. Shao is a distinguished professor from Wisconsin and Chow teaches at Duke University and formerly at Temple but is known for his long career in the pharmaceutical industry.
The book is good for biostatisticians and regulatory affairs specialists as a reference source. All the key statistical issues are addressed and the reader is given the perspective of the ICH and FDA guidance documents. The underlying statistical methodology that justifies the recommendations in the guidances is presented. This is a state-of-the-art book. Shao and Pigeot produced some of the recent research in individual bioequivalence that established a bootstrap procedure as an appropriate way to construct confidence intervals for the problem. Their method is recommended in an FDA guidance document.

But more than just this one example, all the key issues that have been the subject of FDA workshops over the past several years are addressed in this book. These topics include calibration, assay and assay validation, dissolution testing, stability analysis, shelf life estimation, bioequivalence, randomization and blinding, what constitutes substantive evidence in clinical development, therapeutic equivalence and noninferiority, Bayesian approaches in clinical trials, problems involving missing and incomplete data, longitudinal methods, meta-analysis, quality of life studies and instrument validation, and medical imaging.

Other prevalent issues in clinical trials include group sequential methods, hierarchical Bayesian models and multiple testing. These issues are not covered as much in this text as the others we have mentioned. But there is some discussion of multiplicity in the context of quality of life studies. An example of sequential testing is used to illustrate model selection in Chapter 2. The important issues of design and sample size requirements are presented throughout the book.

While not all topics are covered in sufficient depth, the book is remarkable in the breadth of material covered in just 350 pages of text. The authors also provide a very authoritative list of references and regulatory guidances and other documents.

Al lacki's clever idea of reading one reflection a day for a whole year is a helpfull tool for any couple who wants to inprove on their relationship. His reflections and questions are simple but inspiring and always prompt communicaton and the fact that you read it one day at a time should fit even the most demanding schedules. My husband and I both enjoy reading the book daily and inspite of our busy schedules we try to make time to communicate, we take it 'one day at a time'.

Well, I thought that I had read all the "relationship" books out there, and that another on the shelf wouldn't be distinguished...I was wrong. The content of the book is not what is exceptional, it is the layout, the ease of use, and the every day practicality of its nature. I found it interesting and helpful, and a daily read worth the brief amount of time I am able to allocate to daily reading. I would recommend it to my friends and family, and would suggest the read to couples; married and otherwise.

"Steamboat Gothic" is a term for the style of architecture ". . . which was inspired by the floating palaces that plied the Mississippi River during its Golden Age." From the book's forward by the author. Though the tale of a riverman and his family, there is little actual river in the book. There is, however, lots of accurate "period" in the book. As you would expect from F.P.K., it is a good read.

The steamboat gambler got rich and bought a mansion in the style of steamboat gothic to take his lady-bride to live in and to keep his past hidden from her. Then he passes a great heritage and tradition on to his "grandson", Larry. Keyes at her usual top form, in story, grammar, research and form.

It is a shame this book is out of print. I had to purchase a used one. I am an English teacher in Brazil and my students love Stories From Lake Wobegon. I use it in conversation classes and regular classes. It is a must for teachers and professors who want to stimulate their students' interest in the learning of English. It is also a great chance for students to be in contact with real authentic material through humorous stories. Here's my advice for the publishers : print it again!

I love listning to Prarie Home Companion and now my students love Lake Wobegon too.

Each chapter begins with a sketch and questions to get the student thinking about the topic. Next is text from the Lake Wobegon monologues by Garrison Keillor. After the text are insitfull questions including vocabulary, comprehension, and writing.

I would recommend this book for ESL students in the intermediate to high intermediate range.

For those of us who perform outdoors - this book has become a definitive work. Looking at everything from the solo street juggler to street bands to large scale displays of fireworks, this book offers a detailed analysis of the hows, whys and wherefores.

The book gives the reader a sense of this genre of performance. One comes to understand the the far reaches of this art. Vividly illustrated with accounts of actual performances. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in theater or the advant garde

Perhaps the most definitive work on Stuart England I've ever read, Stroud has many fresh new insights about this important period in English history. A must read.

The 17th. Century is a sea regularly trawled by authors-cum-historians, but in Angus Stroud, we have a talented historian, who clearly has an in-depth and encyclopaedic knowledge of the period.

"Stuart England" places Stroud amongst some of the great of 17th. Century historians. He writes without the muddle and confusion of Macaulay, the melodrama or gimmickry of Kishlanski, or the sometimes-unnecessary detail of Dame Veronica Wedgwood.

Stroud has demonstratively dedicated much time and attention to the investigation and evaluation of primary evidence, as well as to different interpretations of the period. In light of this, his clarity of thought, and the originality of his selection of rarely considered documents, must be seen as nothing but a virtue.

He [Stroud] takes us from 1600, through the Civil Wars and Glorious Revolution; to 1701. Usefully, he contexualizes "Stuart England", by outlining the key events of the end of the Elizabethan age, and includes a chapter on the Thirty Years War/European Context. His incisive wit and concise writing style make this section far more valuable than the comparable chapter in Kishlanski's "A Monarchy Transformed".

At times it seems that he is reluctant to enter into a detailed discourse on the individual battles of the Civil War; preferring instead, to comment on the reasons for victory/defeat, rather than military strategy. The pictures that he has selected are exemplary of the points that they illustrate, and the maps showing the changing situation are cleverly conceived.

Intended primarily as a classroom textbook, aimed at the 6th. Form; Stroud has included questions in the chapters. However, more experienced historians and lay readers need not be deterred by their inclusion, as they are as probing as they are challenging.

If "Stuart England" should prove to be the pinnacle of Stroud's writing career, he has achieved a glory, which would be proudly borne by any king or Godly man.

Very nice book :)

I purchased this book as a classroom requirement for my MBA program. I found this book extremely easy to read with a wealth of information. Offering many examples, it is easy to see how the companies listed incorporated different strategies and policies to improve customer service and ultimately add value for the customer, the company and other shareholders. I found myself using this book as a reference source for research papers written for other classes taken later on in the program. This book is an excellent resource for any future business manager.

A wonderful overview of the subject matter! Prem lays things out in a way which is both exciting and educational. I would recommend this book to any graduate student studying Physics!

The author seems to be very knowledgeable in the field of Supersymmetry, Superfields, and Supergravity. It is an excellent introductory book for graduate students that intend to learn and understand in depth Supersymmety, Superfields and Supergravity in our Universe!