Gives detailed statistics on American consumer expenditures from 1980-1981 diary survey.

This book provides an in-depth overview of the demographics of each generation, covering attitudes, education, health, housing, income, labor force, living arrangements, population, spending, time use, and wealth. It includes 2016 attitudes data from the General Social Survey, 2015 time use data from the American Time Use Survey, as well as recent income, housing, labor force, and spending data. Household net worth, assets, and debt are also profiled....

"This new edition shows how real world problems can be solved using statistical concepts, now with many timely updates. The authors have included R software and removed the Excel exhibits throughout the book. The new Chapter 20 discusses data mining including topics in big data, classification, machine learning, and visualization. The new Chapter 21 covers cluster analysis methodologies including in hierarchical, nonhierarchical, and model based clustering....

A new edition of this popular text on robust statistics, thoroughly updated to include new and improved methods and focus on implementation of methodology using the increasingly popular open-source software R. Classical statistics fail to cope well with outliers associated with deviations from standard distributions. Robust statistical methods take into account these deviations when estimating the parameters of parametric models, thus increasing the...

Today's AI developers struggle to predict which algorithms will work. AI lacks a basis for inference: a solid foundation on which to base predictions and decisions. This makes AI tough to explain, creates mistrust, and dooms many AI models to fail in deployment. However, help for AI teams and projects is available from an unlikely source: classical statistics. This article explains how business leaders can apply statistical methods and engage statistics...

Master the fundamentals of regression without learning calculus with this one-stop resource The newly and thoroughly revised 3rd Edition of Applied Regression Modeling delivers a concise but comprehensive treatment of the application of statistical regression analysis for those with little or no background in calculus. Accomplished instructor and author Dr. Iain Pardoe has reworked many of the more challenging topics, included learning outcomes and...