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Publisher
DOC, NOAA, NESDIS, NCDC
Pub. Date
1983-
Language
English
Description
Local Climatological Data (LCD) Washington, DC newsletter consists of hourly, daily and monthly climate statistics in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Data was taken from the Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA), one over over 1400 automated surface observing system (ASOS) stations.
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Stymied by statistics? Fear not! In easy-to-understand terms, this guide shows you how to make sense of statistics. From collecting, graphing, and critiquing data to calculating confidence intervals and hypothesis tests, you'll have everything you need to analyze data with confidence. In no time, you'll be deciphering binomial, normal, t-, and sampling distributions; tackling regression and two-way tables; and much more.--COVER.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
In Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Packed with fresh and practical examples appropriate for a range of degree-seeking students, this easy-to-understand guide covers such key topics as sorting and testing models, using regression to make predictions, performing variance analysis (ANOVA), drawing test conclusions with chi-squares, and making comparisons with the Rank Sum Test.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would win the World Series in 2017, people thought Ben Reiter, the article's author, was crazy. The Astros were the worst baseball team in half a century, but they were more than just bad. They were an embarrassment, a club that didn't even appear to be trying to win. The cover story, combined with the specificity of Reiter's claim, met instant and nearly universal...
Author
Publisher
Taylor and Francis, an imprint of Chapman and Hall/CRC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
With its flexible capabilities and open-source platform, R has become a major tool for analyzing detailed, high-quality baseball data. Analyzing Baseball Data with R provides an introduction to R for sabermetricians, baseball enthusiasts, and students interested in exploring the rich sources of baseball data. It equips readers with the necessary skills and software tools to perform all of the analysis steps, from gathering the datasets and entering...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the best known statistical reference. As a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the country, it is a snapshot of America and its people. It includes over 1,400 tables from hundreds of sources.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States has provided a statistical portrait of social, political, demographic, and economic conditions of America since...
13) Best hospitals
Publisher
U.S. News & World Report
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Now in its 29th year, U.S. News' annual guide to U.S. hospitals helps both consumers and medical professionals find the best hospitals and understand the latest trends in healthcare. Created by a team of leading health journalists and healthcare experts, this popular guidebook provides U.S. News' exclusive rankings of the best adult hospitals and children's hospitals for cancer, orthopedics, cardiology, neurology, and other medical specialties. Plus,...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
"Data describe and represent the world. However, no matter how big they may be, data sets don't - indeed cannot - capture everything. Data are measurements - and, as such, they represent only what has been measured. They don't necessarily capture all the information that is relevant to the questions we may want to ask. If we do not take into account what may be missing/unknown in the data we have, we may find ourselves unwittingly asking questions...
18) Social explorer
Publisher
Queens College, CUNY, Sociology Dept
Pub. Date
[2007-]
Language
English
Description
"Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical census data and demographic information. The easy-to-use web interface lets users create maps and reports to better illustrate, analyze and understand demography and social change. In addition to being a comprehensive data resource, Social Explorer also offers features and tools to meet the needs of both demography experts and novices."
"This...
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