The Odds Revisited

The Odds Revisited
Author: K. A. S. Murshid
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009123130

Explains Bangladesh's record of 'outlier' development through a multi-sectoral approach combining economics, politics, and history.

Interaction Effects in Logistic Regression

Interaction Effects in Logistic Regression
Author: James Jaccard
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2001-02-21
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780761922070

This work introduces general strategies for testing interactions in logistic regression as well as providing the tools to interpret and understand the meaning of coefficients in equations with product terms.

Overwhelming Odds

Overwhelming Odds
Author: Susan O'Leary
Publisher: IFP Enterprises, LLC
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2004-07
Genre: Burns and scalds
ISBN: 9781594574443

Susan O'Leary recounts the miraculous and triumphant fight of her then 9-year-old son to survive and recover from a devastating burn covering 98% of his body. The book unveils a truth of universal importance, namely, by helping others in need we canbecome their miracles.

I Beat The Odds

I Beat The Odds
Author: Michael Oher
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101560037

The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. Looking back on how he went from being a homeless child in Memphis to playing in the NFL, Michael talks about the goals he had to break out of the cycle of poverty, addiction, and hopelessness that trapped his family. Eventually he grasped onto football as his ticket out and worked hard to make his dream into a reality. With his adoptive family, the Touhys, and other influential people in mind, he describes the absolute necessity of seeking out positive role models and good friends who share the same values to achieve one's dreams. Sharing untold stories of heartache, determination, courage, and love, I Beat the Odds is an incredibly rousing tale of one young man's quest to achieve the American dream.

Probability and Bayesian Modeling

Probability and Bayesian Modeling
Author: Jim Albert
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1351030132

Probability and Bayesian Modeling is an introduction to probability and Bayesian thinking for undergraduate students with a calculus background. The first part of the book provides a broad view of probability including foundations, conditional probability, discrete and continuous distributions, and joint distributions. Statistical inference is presented completely from a Bayesian perspective. The text introduces inference and prediction for a single proportion and a single mean from Normal sampling. After fundamentals of Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms are introduced, Bayesian inference is described for hierarchical and regression models including logistic regression. The book presents several case studies motivated by some historical Bayesian studies and the authors’ research. This text reflects modern Bayesian statistical practice. Simulation is introduced in all the probability chapters and extensively used in the Bayesian material to simulate from the posterior and predictive distributions. One chapter describes the basic tenets of Metropolis and Gibbs sampling algorithms; however several chapters introduce the fundamentals of Bayesian inference for conjugate priors to deepen understanding. Strategies for constructing prior distributions are described in situations when one has substantial prior information and for cases where one has weak prior knowledge. One chapter introduces hierarchical Bayesian modeling as a practical way of combining data from different groups. There is an extensive discussion of Bayesian regression models including the construction of informative priors, inference about functions of the parameters of interest, prediction, and model selection. The text uses JAGS (Just Another Gibbs Sampler) as a general-purpose computational method for simulating from posterior distributions for a variety of Bayesian models. An R package ProbBayes is available containing all of the book datasets and special functions for illustrating concepts from the book. A complete solutions manual is available for instructors who adopt the book in the Additional Resources section.

Historical Identities

Historical Identities
Author: Euthalia Lisa Panayotidis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0802090001

As intellectual engines of the university, professors hold considerable authority and play an important role in society. By nature of their occupation, they are agents of intellectual culture in Canada. Historical Identities is a new collection of essays examining the history of the professoriate in Canada. Framing the volume with the question, 'What was it like to be a professor?' editors Paul Stortz and E. Lisa Panayotidis, along with an esteemed group of Canadian historians, strive to uncover and analyze variables and contexts - such as background, education, economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity - in the lives of academics throughout Canada's history. The contributors take an in-depth approach to topics such as academic freedom, professors and the state, faculty development, discipline construction and academic cultures, religion, biography, gender and faculty wives, images of professors, and background and childhood experiences. Including the best and most recent critical research in the field of the social history of higher education and professors, Historical Identities examines fundamental and challenging topics, issues, and arguments on the role and nature of intellectualism in Canada.

The Odds

The Odds
Author: Stewart O'Nan
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101554355

In the new novel from the author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself, a middle-age couple goes all in for love at a Niagara Falls casino Stewart O'Nan's thirteenth novel is another wildly original, bittersweet gem like his celebrated Last Night at the Lobster. Valentine's weekend, Art and Marion Fowler flee their Cleveland suburb for Niagara Falls, desperate to recoup their losses. Jobless, with their home approaching foreclosure and their marriage on the brink of collapse, Art and Marion liquidate their savings account and book a bridal suite at the Falls' ritziest casino for a second honeymoon. While they sightsee like tourists during the day, at night they risk it all at the roulette wheel to fix their finances-and save their marriage. A tender yet honest exploration of faith, forgiveness and last chances, The Odds is a reminder that love, like life, is always a gamble.

Trading With The Odds: Using the Power of Statistics to Profit in the futures Market

Trading With The Odds: Using the Power of Statistics to Profit in the futures Market
Author: Cynthia Kase
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071835040

Every trader will appreciate this reliable, realistic, and systematic approach to trading financial and commodity markets. In a step-by-step manner, the author applies a rigorous mathematical discipline to finanical speculation and explain how to analyze markets, forecast price movements, develop trading strategies, and manage trading capital. Kase also unveils several highly sophisticated indicators that are far more precise than conventional technical indicators. Unlike most books on trading, Trading with the Odds contains complete coverage of money management, including the author's own ``Kase Dev-Stop,'' a highly calibrated money management tool. Trading with the Odds also includes: Uses and abuses of conventional technical analysis; New technical indicators for analyzing markets and entering trades.

Peopleware

Peopleware
Author: Tom DeMarco
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0321934113

Most software project problems are sociological, not technological. Peopleware is a book on managing software projects.