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Coordinates
The word coordinate derives from the Latin ordinare, which means to order or arrange. Coordinates are sets that locate points in space. These sets...
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What is Data Science ? Fundamental Concepts and a Heuristic Example
Data Science is not only a synthetic concept to unify statistics, data analysis and their related methods but also comprises its results. It includes...
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Exploring Data
In the preceding chapters, we have laid the foundation for understanding the concepts and ideas of the S-Plus system. We explored basic ideas and how...
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Application of Optimal Data Assimilation Techniques in Oceanography
Application of optimal data assimilation methods in oceanography is, if anything, more important than it is in numerical weather prediction, due to...
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An overview of design of experiments
An overview of the design of statistical experiments is presented, with special emphasis on response surface designs, block designs, neighbor...
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Random sampling from databases: a survey
This paper reviews recent literature on techniques for obtaining random samples from databases. We begin with a discussion of why one would want to...
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Metropolis Methods, Gaussian Proposals and Antithetic Variables
We investigate various aspects of a class of dynamic Monte Carlo methods, that generalises the Metropolis algorithm and includes the Gibbs sampler as...
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Threshold-range scaling of excitable cellular automata
Each cell of a two-dimensional lattice is painted one of κ colors, arranged in a ‘color wheel’. The colors advance ( k to k +1 mod κ) either...
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A Stochastic Theory of Community Food Webs
The introduction to the empirical portion of this book describes a three-panel cartoon. In the middle panel, theoretical ecologists collected...
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Computer-Based and Quantitative Methods in Market Research
A shift from an industrial to an information society is taking place in the leading industrial nations of the world. This shift is partly due to the...
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Multipurpose Geostatistical Modelling of a Bauxite Orebody in Sardinia
Geostatistics was used to model the Olmedo bauxite deposit in Sardinia, and to calculate the characterized in-situ reserves and the mineable...
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Terms/Begriffe
The following list of terms, mostly English, is alphabetically arranged. Few exceptions from this order help to avoid oddities. I have tried to...
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The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change
Society persists despite the mortality of its individual members, through processes of demographic metabolism and particularly the annual infusion of...