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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter buchholz”
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  • Input Modeling with Phase-Type Distributions and Markov Models

    Theory and Applications

    by Peter Buchholz, Jan Kriege, Iryna Felko ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Containing a summary of several recent results on Markov-based input modeling in a coherent notation, this book introduces and compares algorithms for parameter fitting and gives an overview of available software tools in the area. Due to progress made in recent years with respect to new algorithms to generate PH distributions and Markovian arrival processes from measured data, the models outlined ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Raw Materials for Future Energy Supply

    by Friedrich-W. Wellmer, Peter Buchholz, Jens Gutzmer, Christian Hagelüken, Peter Herzig, Ralf Littke, Rudolf K. Thauer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This is the first book that analyses the future raw materials supply from the demand side of a society that chiefly relies on renewable energies, which is of great significance for us all. It addresses primary and secondary resources and substitution, not only from technical but also socioeconomic and ethical points of view.The “Energiewende” (Energy Transition) will change our consumption of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Globalization, Uncertainty and Late Careers in Society

    Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, Dirk Hofäcker ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Globalization has been strongly shaping and transforming both national economies and individual careers in recent decades. These profound changes have had significant consequences for individual careers of men and women both during and after their employment career. This impressive new collection focuses on the effects of the globalization process on late-midlife workers and the exit from ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Statistics Hacks

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  • Hands-On Programming with R

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    Learn how to program by diving into the R language, and then use your newfound skills to solve practical data science problems. With this book, you’ll learn how to load data, assemble and disassemble data objects, navigate R’s environment system, write your own functions, and use all of R’s programming tools.RStudio Master Instructor Garrett Grolemund not only teaches you how to program, but also ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the Outsiders

    How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

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  • A Precariat Charter

    From Denizens to Citizens

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
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  • Regression Modeling Strategies

    With Applications to Linear Models, Logistic and Ordinal Regression, and Survival Analysis

    by Frank E. Harrell , Jr. ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This highly anticipated second edition features new chapters and sections, 225 new references, and comprehensive R software. In keeping with the previous edition, this book is about the art and science of data analysis and predictive modelling, which entails choosing and using multiple tools. Instead of presenting isolated techniques, this text emphasises problem solving strategies that address ... Read more

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    by Christian Robert, George Casella ...
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    Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas

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