Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Statistics

Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective considers statistical learning applications when interest centers on the conditional distribution of the response variable, given a set of predictors, and when it is important to characterize how the predictors are related to the response. As a first approximation, this is can be seen as an extension of nonparametric regression. Among the statistical learning procedures examined are bagging, random forests, boosting, and support vector machines. Response variables may be quantitative or categorical.

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The proposed book will assemble a selection of essays that quantify the theories of Pierre Bourdieu. Our purpose is simply to provide a collection of academic pieces that demonstrate how quantitative methodological procedures are used to test the validity of existing social theory, focusing on the prominent sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu. We have chosen Bourdieu due to his international popularity in the sociology discipline, and the extensive range of his theoretical contributions.

Demonstrating the importance of quantifying, or testing, theory is frequently overlooked in...

This book is an English language edition of the official social statistics compiled by the State Statistical Bureau of the People's Republic of China (SSB). It offers essential basic information on China's social development. In addition to the statistics, the book contains the SSB's Statistical Communique. The English language Editorial Board was responsible for the translation and annotation of this volume; it is composed of representatives of the China Statistical Information and Consultancy Service Center, an Affiliate of the SSB, and the China Statistical Archives, a research center...

The latest edition in the "China Statistics Series," China Rural Statistics 1988 offers essential basic information on China's rural economic and social development and the outcome of rural reform. There are eleven sections: Rural Basic Statistics; Total Output Value of Rural Society; Output of Major Farm Crops, Livestock, and Township and Village Enterprises' Industrial Products; Rural Commerce; Rural Economic Efficiency; Rural Financial Statistics; Income and Living Expenditure of Rural Households; Rural Production Conditions; Rural Culture, Education, Health Care, and Social Welfare;...

The latest edition in the "China Statistics Series," "China Statistical Abstract 1989" offers essential basic information on China's economic and social development in 1988. It also illustrates the major trends in this development since 1978. This book contains key statistics for principal sectors of the national economy by selected years since 1978. There are nine sections: General Survey; Population and Labor Force; Agriculture; Industry; Transportation, Postal and Telecommunication Services; Investment in Fixed Assets; Finance, Trade and Price; People's Livelihood; Education, Science,...

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This volume is a six-part systematic, comprehensive, and up-to-date presentation, description, and methodological analysis of two hundred and forty-nine tables of statistics and related qualitative evidence on money, banking, and financial services in Chile. Part I, on money, deals with the historical statistics and related qualitative evidence needed to understand the monetary history of Chile from 1749 until the establishment of the Central Bank during 1925-6. Part II, on the banking system, presents information on the assets and liabilities of Chilean commercial banks during 1857-1900...