A description of the Japanese tea ceremony that evokes Eastern culture as a whole

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Adriana Hofstetter, the sixteen-year-old intrepid journalism student, returns in a crackerjack new mystery, her sixth adventure, Murder at the Hollywood Division. When a police detective is shot four times while sitting in his car in a Hollywood neighborhood, the Hollywood Division, including Detective Ramirez, will not rest until they find the person who did it. They have no clues, no witnesses and nothing at all to go on. Adriana hears about it and wants to help. And so begins a journey that ultimately puts her in mortal danger, a danger from which she may not escape. Murder at the Hollywood Division is filled with tension, but also the trademark Hofstetter humor, as she interacts with her mother Margaret, best friend Billy Feldman, and a host of other characters. This time, though, solving the crime might just cost her life.

Product Description: This key book - now available in paperback - uses case studies, research findings, and clear examples to examine the sequence and difficulties of China's ownership reforms since the reform and opening up policy was introduced 30 years ago...read more

Product Description: This book is unique for its broad and yet comprehensive coverage of modern probability theory, ranging from first principles and standard textbook material to more advanced topics. In spite of the economical exposition, careful proofs are provided for all main results...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text emphasizes models, methodology, and applications rather than rigorous mathematical development and theory. It uses real data in both exercise sets and examples.

What Does Winning the Lottery Have To do with Engineering? Whether you're trying to win millions in the lottery or designing a complex computer network, you're applying probability theory. Although you encounter probability applications everywhere, the theory can be deceptively difficult to learn and apply correctly. This text will help you grasp the concepts of probability and stochastic processes and apply them throughout your careers. These concepts are clearly presented throughout the book as a sequence of building blocks that are clearly identified as either an axiom, definition, or theorem. This approach provides you with a better understanding of the material which you'll be able to use to solve practical problems. Key Features: * The text follows a single model that begins with an experiment consisting of a procedure and observations. * The mathematics of discrete random variables appears separately from the mathematics of continuous random variables. * Stochastic processes are introduced in Chapter 6, immediately after the presentation of discrete and continuous random variables. Subsequent material, including central limit theorem approximations, laws of large numbers, and statistical inference, then use examples that reinforce stochastic process concepts. * An abundance of exercises are provided that help students learn how to put the theory to use.

Focusing on how statistical tools are integrated into the engineering problem-solving process, this book provides modern coverage of engineering statistics. It presents a wide range of techniques and methods that engineers will find useful in professional practice. All major aspects of engineering statistics are covered, including descriptive statistics, probability and probability distributions, building regression models, designing and analyzing engineering experiments, and more.

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This new edition has been expanded using state-of-the-art MINITAB graphics to reflect current trends in descriptive data analysis. Much of the text has been rewritten in response to student requests to make the language and style more readable and user friendly. This classic now features a more graphic approach to modernize it, and more emphasis on the uses of the computer in statistics is also a focus for this edition. Inference making, crystal-clear explanations, and well-honed exercises with raw data sets continue to be the hallmarks for the book.

An accessible introduction to the mathematics of probability and statistics for students with a background in calculus. Numerous applications help to explain and motivate the concepts. This revision features a more flexible organization to better meet the needs of one or two semester courses requiring varying levels of rigor. Easier than Hogg/Craig.

Product Description: Focusing entirely on measurement, this book includes activities on linear measurement, weight, capacity, volume, area, time, and temperature. Activity pages and hands-on activities make measurement accessible for all learning types...read more

Product Description: The proceedings of the Israeli GAFA seminar on Geometric Aspect of Functional Analysis during the years 2001-2002 follow the long tradition of the previous volumes. They continue to reflect the general trends of the Theory. Several papers deal with the slicing problem and its relatives...read more

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Product Description: Here is easy reference to a wealth of facts and formulae associated with Brownian motion, collecting in one volume more than 2500 numbered formulae. The book serves as a basic reference for researchers, graduate students, and people doing applied work with Brownian motion and diffusions, and can be used as a source of explicit examples when teaching stochastic processes...read more

Product Description: Our lives are governed by chance. But what, exactly, is chance? In this book, accomplished statistician and storyteller Bart K. Holland takes us on a tour of the world of probability. Weaving together tales from real life―from the spread of the bubonic plague in medieval Europe or the number of Prussian cavalrymen kicked to death by their horses, through IQ test results and deaths by voodoo curse, to why you have to wait in line for rides at Disneyworld―Holland captures the reader's imagination with surprising examples of probability in action, everyday events that can profoundly affect our lives but are controlled by just one number...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The first edition of this single volume on the theory of probability has become a highly-praised standard reference for many areas of probability theory. Chapters from the first edition have been revised and corrected, and this edition contains four new chapters...read more

Product Description: Infinite products of matrices are used in nonhomogeneous Markov chains, Markov set-chains, demographics, probabilistic automata, production and manpower systems, tomography, and fractals. More recent results have been obtained in computer design of curves and surfaces...read more

Product Description: This book introduces stochastic processes and their applications for students in engineering, industrial statistics, science, operations research, business, and finance. It provides the theoretical foundations for modeling time-dependent random phenomena encountered in these disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The fourth edition of Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes has been updated significantly from the previous edition, and it now includes co-author S. Unnikrishna Pillai of Polytechnic University. The book is intended for a senior/graduate level course in probability and is aimed at students in electrical engineering, math, and physics departments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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