Geometric Data Analysis: From Correspondence Analysis to Structured Data Analysis

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Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) is the name suggested by P. Suppes (Stanford University) to designate the approach to Multivariate Statistics initiated by Benzécri as Correspondence Analysis, an approach that has become more and more used and appreciated over the years. This book presents the full formalization of GDA in terms of linear algebra - the most original and far-reaching consequential feature of the approach - and shows also how to integrate the standard statistical tools such as Analysis of Variance, including Bayesian methods. Chapter 9, Research Case Studies, is nearly a book in itself; it presents the methodology in action on three extensive applications, one for medicine, one from political science, and one from education (data borrowed from the Stanford computer-based Educational Program for Gifted Youth ). Thus the readership of the book concerns both mathematicians interested in the applications of mathematics, and researchers willing to master an exceptionally powerful approach of statistical data analysis.

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The dot-com bust may have soured people on e-commerce, but growth in online sales continues to soar. This all-new edition of the best-selling Visual Basic Developer's Guide to E-Commerce with ASP and SQL Server has been completely updated for the .NET technologies, including ASP.NET, ADO.NET (for database connectivity), and Visual Basic .NET. The book offers real-world solutions for programming an online store. You get comprehensive coverage of designing an e-commerce solution, creating the user interface, building the shopping cart, checking order status, and creating promotional features for the store. The companion CD-ROM includes all the sample code and applications from the book.

The new edition also has a brand-new chapter on localization and internationalization issues. You learn to create a web page that meets specific requirements, such as the correct language and currency, for a user accessing the page from a particular country.

Customer Reviews:

My Store Is Running Thanks to This Book!.......2003-11-05

I was able to use the code in this book right out the box to further my e-commerce development. It was invaluable, and I learned a lot about .Net programming as well. I highly recommend this Book

entry level with very little practical examples.......2003-09-23

This book is e-commerce 101. Pages and pages of unneccessary code examples. Do you really need to see the code for a drop down box with all of the states? I was really hoping for this book to address real-world e-commerce programming issues. State management, multi-level departments, multiple-product photos, various shipping options, etc.
If you have never written an e-commerce web site and you just need a basic shopping cart then this maybe the book for you.

Right Book at the Right Time.......2002-06-20

My company is building an internal procurement site and we needed something we could customize to our needs. Gunderloy and Jerke do an outstanding job of explaining how to build an e-commerce site and provide an excellent set of foundation code.

Thanks guys! Great job.

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How using key language can make all the difference

Get your dream job

Key Words to Nail Your Job Interview: What to Say to Win Your Dream Job
Wendy S. Enelow
Manufacturer: Impact Publications
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ASIN: 1570232121

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While employers look for keywords on resumes and cover letters, they also listen intently for keywords during job interviews. Here's the first book to focus on how to use keywords in the critical job interview.

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How using key language can make all the difference.......2004-05-15

Wendy S. Enelow's Keywords To Nail Your Job Interview: What To Say To Win Your Dream Job shows how understanding and using key language can make all the difference between winning and losing a job. KeyWords are not just for the written word and computer scans of resume contents: they can act critically to ace or break a job interview. Anyone entering (or re-entering!) the job market could benefit greatly from this fine title.

Get your dream job.......2004-05-04

Obviously getting your dream job is important, and there are many great books on the market such as, "How to find your dream job and make it a reality: solutions for a rewarding and meaningful career" which is a great book because it is about solutions and it is about defining how you are and what you will be good at. Of course, defining your dream job is only one part of the process. The second part is selling yourself in the interview, and this book will do that. It is a great resource, and you should invest in this book as well as, "How to find your dream job and make it a reality: solutions for a rewarding and meaningful career."

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Good advice for beginning and intermediate investors...

Personal Finance 101

Did I buy this book

A great starting book you'll read again and again . . .

Common sense strategies for those wishing to help themselves

High Finance on a Low Budget: Build Wealth Regardless of Your Income
Mark Skousen , and Jo Ann Skousen
Manufacturer: Dearborn Trade Pub
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ASIN: 079312557X

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Good advice for beginning and intermediate investors..........2005-01-10

This book provides a great introduction to personal finance. I have read it over a few times over the years, and although some of the specific recommendations are outdated, the concepts presented are still right on target. Anyone that takes an interest in money and investing will probably outgrow the book at some point, but we all have to start somewhere. Skousen is the undisputed heavyweight champion of free-market advocates, and some of his advice is more geared towards advancing this national economic agenda than the reader's personal financial interest. He does point this out, so I took no particular issue with it. I simply did not follow his advice if I didn't see the benefit. Each edition of this book reflects Skousen's intense concern with inflation. Some of the resulting investment recommendations, including gold, art, real estate, and collectibles probably wouldn't have produced a great deal of wealth for many readers. This is hindsight, however, and does not diminish the value of the advice offered in aggregate in the rest of the book.

Personal Finance 101.......2003-12-27

This is a great text for someone who wants to whip their finances into shape. It starts with the absolute basics and gives great hints on how to save money and how to change your thinking so that you may accumulate true wealth.

Did I buy this book.......2003-07-18

Not memorable. No significant impact.

A great starting book you'll read again and again . . ........2000-01-07

The one star reviewer must have been expecting something else.

I bought this book in college when it was only available in hardcover, and I have dog-eared the pages three times over.

With so many copycat financial books flooding the market, this little book stands as an original. Much of the information is elementary, but the book's value is its breadth and its practical "how to" bent. This book doesn't stop at "consider investing in mutual funds". It gives you funds the Skousens love and the funds phone numbers so you can start today.

This book also lets the beginner or the small fry dream. It also covers exotic investing in art, metals, foreign bank accounts, currency, options, and tells you how to get a taste of any of these, complete with contact phone numbers. Try getting that from the Wall Street Journal or Barron's.

It has great, simple chapters on credit management, cutting down expenses, real estate, and most of all, personal responsibility. If you are not a jaded person who has given up on personal finance or a wiseacre who thinks you can't learn anything new, you will like this book. If even one of its dozens of interesting financial ideas or contacts pans out for you or makes you feel better, more like a Rockefeller, then it has earned its keep.

This book will be a personal favorite of yours. Look for it in hard cover so you won't wear it out.

Common sense strategies for those wishing to help themselves.......1997-05-07

The Skousens have drawn from some age old wisdom regarding thrift and lifestyle and have spun an interesting fabric of how that wisdom, if applied today, can still affect our lives dramatically. As the Skousens powerfully point out, a carefully planned expenditure and investment of even meager means can have an unbelieveable impact on our financial well being, both early on and later in life. This book is delightful reading and will not disappoint

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"Businessmen are politicians in America," writes Kim McQuaid, "and politicians are businessmen." Today, in areas as diverse as home mortgages, high technology, and Smart Bombs, the private and public sectors are working together to perform tasks that each is unable to do alone. In Uneasy Partners McQuaid surveys the close ties that have formed between big business and government in the period from World War II to the present.

Government needs business, McQuaid explains, to make and implement key economic and business-related decisions. Business needs government to gain advantages over labor and markets. The defining characteristics of this business-government relationship form the focal point for each of the book's chapters. McQuaid first examines the 1945-60 transition period, discussing Eisenhower's domestic policies, foreign aid, and the oil market. He explores the rapid expansion of government under the Democratic administrations of the 1960s. He discusses the Republican retrenchment and the Reagan administration's pro-business agenda in the 1980s. Finally he assesses the legacy of the Reagan policies and evaluates the current U.S. position in the world economy.

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This one-stop reference guide for inventors covers everything from patents to raising money.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent resource for individual inventors w/ product ideas.......2001-04-11

Don Debelak's new book picks up very nicely from where Bringing Your Product to Market (by the same author, which I also enjoyed and reviewed) leaves off. The assumption is that you've already used the tools in the first book to create a product with promise (this isn't a necessary step, but I personally recommend it). Now you need to figure out how you're going to market and sell your product with finances as a key concern.

The author identifies nine strategies for doing this, among them: trade shows, joint ventures, private label marketing, catalogs, the Internet, licensing, and starting your own business (there are a couple others that elude me at the moment). Two chapters are dedicated to each subject. The first gives the reader an explanation of the strategy including pros and cons and what to expect should you pursue that strategy. The second chapter has more specific information on how to proceed if you determine that that strategy is the one for you. The benefit of this is that you can quickly read through the different options and skip sections that don't apply to your situation.

As with Bringing Your Product to Market, Debelak does a fantastic job of providing insightful details and comprehensive information in general to all the topics he covers. The book is also liberally sprinkled with side bar information that complements the text nicely: industry terms, "reality checks", as well as anecdotes. I should mention that this is not one of those books that could be condensed into eight pages--the ones where the author has five interesting things to say and fills up 295 of the 300 pages with anecdote after anecdote. Debelak does an excellent job of balancing the information he presents so that the reader comes away well informed, and hopefully motivated (at least I was).

In addition to the main text, the appendices are very useful. They include specific information on intellectual property as well as a very useful glossary of terms that will help you look a little more experienced when talking to people in the industry.

One last note, this book does not attempt to teach you how to run your own business, write a business plan, incorporate, etc. However, it is an excellent resource for determining what your options are for bringing your product to market. People who think it's either license or start your own company will be pleasantly surprised.

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The pathbreaking Encyclopedia is the very first A-Z fully refereed compendium of the main principles, concepts, problems, institutions, schools and policies associated with political economy.

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An Outstanding Reference Source on Political Economy: A Skilfully Collated 2 Volume Work of Distinction by Professor O'Hara.......2005-10-01

Nowadays, a vast amount of complex information is offered to us. With the advent of the Internet and other forms of immediate communications so much information and perspectives are available. Unfortunately, new forms of knowledge replace old forms quite rapidly, and it's getting harder to find out which particular theory or idea is "truth" and which isn't. Therefore, as knowledge complexity and knowledge obsolescence rises, it's becoming increasingly difficult for human beings to understand the world we live in and solve the concoction of problems we face. But, there are bits of knowledge out there that seldom go out of date and stand the test of time; and it's sitting right here on my bookshelf, the Encyclopedia of Political Economy. To me, the Encyclopedia of Political Economy (EPE for short) is the best source of reference for political economy to date. It has been an invaluable authoritative reference source in my later undergraduate and postgraduate college studies of political economy. The EPE is an important landmark in scholarly development in political economy. My preference is the paperback edition as it is easy to flip through and has an attractive colorful front cover!

The EPE is an easy to use 2 volume set which is suitable as an introduction for concerned students and activists whom are interested in the social and political effects of economic policy. You should find the entries uncomplicated to understand, and after reading several of them you'll get use to the consistent format and feel that each one has. Any political economic issue you want to gain knowledge on is readily accessible. Various links on closely associated topics and further suggested readings are provided for all entries. For instance, throughout the text in the entry "environmental and ecological political economy: major contemporary themes", there are virtual hyperlinks to other areas of special interest: e.g. entropy; sustainable development; natural capital; or Ecological Economics. Plus, at the end of each section, related topics are provided to further direct the reader onto related areas of interest. For example, under the "gross domestic product and net social welfare" entry, some of the related topics such as "household production and national income" and "quality of life" have their own entry in the EPE. With over 450 essays on most aspects of political economy written by experts in the field, you would be sure to find what you are looking for.

In summary, we are faced with a large amount of choice in the information we accept as true. In the process we are forced to limit our choices of knowledge and select only the most relevant to what we value and believe. One of those things I value is a greater social welfare for all living creatures; the EPE contributors embrace this too. I personally give the EPE 5-stars. But you don't have to take my good word for it; here are some extracts from several reviews of the EPE, including one from the very prestigious Economic Journal.

* Journal of Economic Issues (vol 37, no 4, December 2003, pp. 1186-1188): "The publication of this encyclopedia underscores the extent to which political economy has come of age. ... This encyclopedia compares very favorably to the New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics (1987). ... When compared with The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics ..., this encyclopedia has more depth and a greater appreciation of the range of topics relevant to economics. ... This is an excellent reference source, well suited for the non-specialist seeking to understand political economy. It should be available in all university libraries and departments of economics or political economy" (Mayo Toruno, California State University - San Bernadino).

* Economic Journal (vol 110, no 467, November 2000, pp. F765-766): "These [issues] collectively constitute the life-blood of contemporary economic concerns and it is extremely useful to find within a single book a discussion of the major points that define these issues. ... [W]here the Encyclopedia of Political Economy comes into its own is in an institutionally richer treatment of topics ... To the growing number of persons who are interested in the broader context of economics, these volumes are to be highly recommended" (p. F767, vol 110, no 467, Nov 2000).

* Journal of Australian Political Economy, (no 43, 2000, pp. 148-149): "This handsome two-volume encyclopedia is an impressive stocktaking of the main concerns of political economy ... Certainly, the publication of this encyclopedia is a major landmark in the long march to develop an influential alternative to orthodox neoclassical economics" (no 43, 2000).

* History of Economics Review (no 37, Winter 2003, pp. 159-162): "It is a tribute to [O'Hara's] energy that the work was initially planned and organised by him ... There are indeed a number of useful and interesting articles. ... [T]his is a useful collection which will feature on the reading lists of many political economy courses and, hopefully as well, on the shelves of many research libraries in universities around the world" (Peter Groenewegan, University of Sydney, Australia).

* New Political Economy (vol 7, no 2, 2002, pp. 299-307 "Review Article"): "[This] encyclopedia tells an interesting story about [its] purported discipline's past, its current status and, more ambitiously, its future trajectory. ... The result is a well-demarcated intellectual legacy for political economy to draw upon in its efforts to reclaim a disciplinary mantle. ... [T]ese volumes provide ... the A-Z of our discipline, nicely condensed and sitting right there on our shelf. This is quite an achievement" (Randall D. Germain, University of Wales, UK)

* The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (vol 7, no 3, 2000): "The Encyclopedia ... is ...a forum for innovative work. [M]ost of the essays ... seem to be thoughtfully and richly informed. [P]articularly the entries on money, credit and finance are worth reading. There are undoubtedly important points being made in these essays. Even the specialist in monetary theory will benefit from reading various portions" (Thomas Huth, Fachhochschulke Luneburg, Germany).

* Eastern Economic Journal (vol 29, no 4, Fall 2003, pp. 629-630): "All entries are organised in the same way. There is thus much formal unity and ... impressive editorial work has been done to this end. The entries are well written. ... I find this encyclopedia definitely original and interesting. It is also stimulating" (Michel De Vroey, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium).

No coherent definition and/or analysis of uncertainty.......2004-11-16

This encyclopedia is for true believers in the Post Keynesian tradition of Joan Robinson,G L S Shackle and Paul Davidson.Unfortunately, this approach to economics can't operationalize any of the analytic tools and concepts Keynes developed in the A Treatise on Probability in 1921(TP)or in the General Theory in 1936(GT).An obvious place to start is the failure of Post Keynesians to operationalize Keynes's concepts of the weight of the evidence in the TP,uncertainty in the GT and probability in both the TP and GT.Keynesian probability is fundamentally of an interval nature.It is quantitative and at the same time noncomparative,nonrankable,and incommensurable if any of the interval estimates overlap.The source of this analysis is chapters 15,17,20,and 22 of the TP.Weight of the evidence,w,is an index that measures the completeness of the relevant,potential,available evidence upon which probability estimates will be based.Keynes defined it as 0 <=w <=1.If w=0,then you are dealing with what Keynes called ignorance in the TP.A w=0 would also hold in the 1937 Quarterly Journal of Economics article if"We simply do not know!"Other names would be complete or total uncertainty or the fundamental uncertainty of the Shackles and the Davidsons.w's between 0 and 1 represent cases of partial knowledge and partial ignorance.Here a set of different probability distributions or a set of intervals would have to be constructed.A w=1 allows a decision maker to specify a single unique probability distribution or interval.Given a strict application of the central limit theorem and the law of large numbers,suppose that the data passed the Lexis Q-test for stability.Keynes would then agree that one could apply a normal probability distribution since an analysis of the data would support such a conclusion as long as the data was homogeneous in its composition throughout the series or sequence.Now let us turn to the GT.Keynes was quite clear that uncertainty is a function of the weight of the evidence.As the weight of the evidence increases,uncertainty decreases.As the weight of the evidence decreases,uncertainty increases.u=f(w).If w=0,then uncertainty is total and no estimates of probability are possible.In this case,the decision maker would exhibit a very high liquidity preference and tend to rely on heuristics,rules of thumb,habits,memory,conventions or a follow the crowd approach.

A great general resource for the social sciences.......1999-10-17

This is a great general resource for people, and especially students, interested in the social sciences. The area of Political Economy defines a broad subject matter incorporating economics, political science, sociology and History (at least), from a leftist point of view. There are excellent essays on topics relating to each of these areas that have helped me understand, at long last, those college classes I took oh, so long ago. I wrote the essay on the Informal Sector, but there are over 300 other essays that are really worth looking at. Each essay has a short list of publications in the field that can help jump-start a more in-depth research project.

Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy

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Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy
R.j. Jones
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 0415145325

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This important new work is the first comprehensive reference to the rapidly developing field of international political economy [IPE]. Featuring over 1200 A-Z entries, the coverage encompasses the full range of issues, concepts, and institutions associated with IPE in its various forms. Comprehensively cross-referenced and indexed, each entry provides suggestions for further reading along with guides to more specialized sources. Selected entries include: * African Development Bank * benign neglect * Black Monday * casino capitalism * debt management * efficiency * floating exchange rates * General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [GATT] *information society/economy * Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries [OPEC] * Microsoft * multinational corporations, definitions * NATO * patents * rent-seeking * Schellin, Thomas *tax havens * trusts * Value-Added Tax [VAT] * zero-sum games * and many more.

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