The theory of Gambling and statistical logic

Early in his rise to enlightenment, man invented a concept that has since been variously viewed as a vice, a crime, a business, a pleasure, a type of magic, a disease, a folly, a weakness, a form of sexual substitution, an expression of the human ...

Analysis of microdata

The book provides a simple, intuitive introduction to regression models for qualitative and discrete dependent variables, to sample selection models, and to event history models, all in the context of maximum likelihood estimation. It presents a wide range of commonly used models. The book thereby ...

Business statistics using excel

Business Statistics Using Excel provides students with the tools they need to confidently approach their course, using screenshots to integrate Excel effectively throughout the text. Each chapter is packed with exercises to engage students and encourage self testing. The authors provide various pedagogical features to ...

Inferencia estadística

INDICE. Introducción a la inferencia estadística. Estimación puntual. Intervalos de confianza y contrastes de hipótesis. Bondad de ajuste. Contrastes no paramétricos para una muestra. Contrastes no paramétricos para dos muestras independientes. Contrastes paramétricos para más de dos muestras: análisis de la varianza. Otros contrastes no ...

Introducción a la estadística y sus aplicaciones

La estadística es la ciencia que se ocupa del estudio y la aplicación del conjunto de métodos necesarios para recoger, clasificar, representar y resumir los datos de un experimento aleatorio, así como para la realización de inferencias a partir del análisis de estos datos. Proporciona ...

Análisis de series temporales económicas I

modelos estructurales

Este libro es una introducción a la Econometría, válido para estudiantes de economía no iniciados en la materia y para toda persona interesada en el conocimiento de las técnicas econométricas, sea o no especialista en el campo económico. El volumen está centrado en la modelización ...

Protagonistas de la estadística

[una historia de la estadistica en cómic]

Este libro recorre la Hisotira de la Estadística y la Probabilidad a través de los nombres propios que la han forjado a lo largo de sus cuatro siglos de existencia. De cada una de estas personalidades destacadas figura, junto a la preceptiva reseña biográfica -salpicada ...

Bayesian methods in finance

The aim of Bayesian Methods in Finance is to provide an overview of the theory of Bayesian methods and explain their real-world applications to financial modeling. While the principles and concepts explained in the book can be used in financial modeling and decision making in ...

Digital dice

computational solutions to practical probability problems

Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in which a random- number generator simulates a physical process, such as a million ...

Statical data analysis explained

applied environmental statics with R

Few books on statistical data analysis in the natural sciences are written at a level that a non-statistician will easily understand. This is a book written in colloquial language, avoiding mathematical formulae as much as possible, trying to explain statistical methods using examples and graphics ...

Inferencia estadística y análisis de datos

Dirigido a estudiantes y profesionales de Ciencias e Ingenierías, trata los conceptos más importantes de la inferencia estadística y el análisis de datos tanto univariante como multivariante. El enfoque con que se exponen dichos conceptos es más bien riguroso desde el punto de vista matemático ...

Cálculos estadísticos con Excel

La estadística es una ciencia indispensable en todos los campos de investigación, en el control de calidad y en la mayoría de los procesos productivos, siendo por ello una de las materias abordadas en multitud de planes de estudio. Microsoft Excel es una herramienta de ...

Estadística para las ciencias sociales

Esta obra es mas que un simple libro para realizar calculos, pues se trata de una obra que enseña al lector que la estadistica no solo es un ejercicio matematico, sino que constituye un medio para analizar y comprender el mundo social, con base en ...

Applied business statistics

methods and excel-based applications

This title contains a book and CD. This is an introductory statistics text written specifically for management students who require an understanding of the role of statistics in analysing business data from the areas of Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Production and Logistics. This text shows ...

Encuestas continuas

estimación de parámetros en muestreo sucesivo

El objetivo de esta publicación es presentar una visión conjunta de las técnicas indirectas de estimación y el método del muestreo en ocasiones sucesivas, diseño muestral que es utilizado en gran cantidad de encuestas continuas elaboradas por el Instituto Nacional de Estadística, como es el ...

Data mining and market intelligence for optimal marjeting returns

The authors present a practical and highly informative perspective on the elements that are crucial to the success of a marketing campaign. Unlike books that are either too theoretical to be of practical use to practitioners, or too soft to serve as solid and measurable ...

Forecasting with exponential smoothing

the state space approach

Exponential smoothing methods have been around since the 1950s, and are still the most popular forecasting methods used in business and industry. However, a modelling framework incorporating stochastic models, likelihood calculation, prediction intervals and procedures for model selection, was not developed until relatively recently. This ...

Probability and information

an integrated approach

This updated textbook is an excellent way to introduce probability and information theory to new students in mathematics, computer science, engineering, statistics, economics, or business studies. Only requiring knowledge of basic calculus, it starts by building a clear and systematic foundation to the subject: the ...

Ecological models and data in R

Ecological Models and Data in R is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know in order to use maximum likelihood, information-theoretic, and Bayesian techniques to ...

Demographic forecasting

"Demographic Forecasting" introduces new statistical tools that can greatly improve forecasts of population death rates. Mortality forecasting is used in a wide variety of academic fields, and for policymaking in global health, social security and retirement planning, and other areas. Federico Girosi and Gary King ...