Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions

Table of Contents: “…Starting a review -- Determining the scope of the review and the questions it will address -- Defining the criteria for including studies and how they will be grouped for the synthesis -- Searching for and selecting studies -- Collecting data -- Choosing effect measures and computing estimates of effect -- Considering bias and conflicts of interest among the included studies -- Assessing risk of bias in a randomized trial -- Summarizing study characteristics and preparing for synthesis -- Analysing data and undertaking meta-analyses -- Undertaking network meta-analyses -- Synthesizing and presenting findings using other methods -- Assessing risk of bias due to missing results in a synthesis -- Completing 'Summary of findings' tables and grading the certainty of the evidence -- Interpreting results and drawing conclusions -- Equity and specific populations -- Intervention complexity -- Patient-reported outcomes -- Adverse effects -- Economics evidence -- Qualitative research and Cochrane Reviews -- Prospective approaches to accumulating evidence -- Including variants on randomized trials -- Including non-randomized studies on intervention effects -- Assessing risk of bias in a non-randomized study -- Individual participant data.…”
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PRINCIPLES OF QUANTUM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. by Wichert, Andreas

Table of Contents: “…7.7.2 Measuring a compound system7.7.3 Heisenberg's uncertainty principle*; 7.8 Randomness; 7.8.1 Deterministic chaos; 7.8.2 Kolmogorov complexity; 7.8.3 Humans and random numbers; 7.8.4 Randomness in quantum physics; 8. …”
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Indifference pricing : theory and applications

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Pricing the future : finance, physics, and the 300-year journey to the Black-Scholes equation : a story of genius and discovery by Szpiro, George, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Flowers and spices -- In the beginning -- From rags to riches -- The banker's secretary -- The spurned professor -- Botany, physics, and chemistry -- Disco dancers and strobe lights -- The overlooked thesis -- Another pioneer -- Measuring the immeasurable -- Accounting for randomness -- The sealed envelope -- The utility of logarithms -- The Nobelists -- The three musketeers -- The higher they climb -- The harder they fall -- The fat tails.…”
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Film modernism by Rohdie, Sam, 1939-2015

Table of Contents: “…Film modernism; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Allegory ; Ambulation; Archive; Arrangements; Authorship; Bodies; Bricolage; Characters; Classicism; Colour; Contradiction; Desire; Destructuring ; Drama ; Duplication; Elsewhere; Film noir; Frames; History; Images ; Immediacy; Inertia; Insufficiency; Investigations (1); Investigations (2); Language; Levels; Masquerade; Melodrama; Minimalism; Mise en scène ; Modernity ; Montage (1); Montage (2); Museum; Myth; Narrative; Networks; Nowhere; Pop; Portraiture; Randomness; Realism (1); Realism (2); Realities…”
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Resistance forms, quasisymmetric maps, and heat kernel estimates by Kigami, Jun

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Topology associated with a subspace of functions -- Basics on resistance forms -- The Green function -- Topologies associated with resistance forms -- Regularity of resistance forms -- Annulus comparable condition and local property -- Trace of resistance form -- Resistance forms as Dirichlet forms -- Transition density -- Semi-quasisymmetric metrics -- Quasisymmetric metrics -- Relations of measures and metrics -- Construction of quasisymmetric metrics -- Main results on heat kernel estimates -- Example: the a-stable process on R -- Basic tools in heat kernel estimates -- Proof of theorem 15.6 -- Proof of theorems 15.10, 15.11 and 15.13 -- Generalized Sierpinski gasket -- Random Sierpinski gasket -- Resistance forms on random Sierpinski gaskets -- Volume doubling property -- Homogenous case -- Introducing randomness.…”
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Nonparametric Inference by Govindarajulu, Z.

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Statistical Terminology; 2 Order Statistics; 3 Ordered Least Squares Estimators; 4 Interval Estimation and Tolerance Limits; 5 Nonparametric Estimation; 6 Estimation of Density Functions; 7 Review of Parametric Testing; 8 Goodness of Fit Tests; 9 Randomness Tests Based on Runs; 10 Permutation Tests; 11 Rank Order Tests; 12 LMP Tests: Two-sample Case; 13 One-sample Rank Order Tests; 14 Asymptotic Relative Efficiency; 15 LMP Tests for Independence; 16 c-sample Rank Order Tests; 17 c-sample Tests for Scale.…”
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An introduction to probability and statistics. by Rohatgi, V. K., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Probability -- Random variables and their probability distributions -- Moments and generating functions -- Multiple random variables -- Some special distributions -- Limit theorems -- Sample moments and their distributions -- Parametric point estimation -- Neyman-Pearson theory of testing of hypotheses -- Some further results of hypothesis testing -- Confidence estimation -- General linear hypothesis -- Nonparametric statistical inference.…”
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Identification of Physical Systems : Applications to Condition Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis, Soft Sensor and Controller Design. by Doraiswami, Rajamani

Table of Contents: “…1.5.9 Examples of Deterministic Signals1.6 Introduction to Random Signals; 1.6.1 Stationary Random Signal; 1.6.2 Joint PDF and Statistics of Random Signals; 1.6.3 Ergodic Process; 1.7 Model of Random Signals; 1.7.1 White Noise Process; 1.7.2 Colored Noise; 1.7.3 Model of a Random Waveform; 1.7.4 Classification of the Random Waveform; 1.7.5 Frequency Response and Pole-Zero Locations; 1.7.6 Illustrative Examples of Filters; 1.7.7 Illustrative Examples of Random Signals; 1.7.8 Pseudo Random Binary Sequence (PRBS); 1.8 Model of a System with Disturbance and Measurement Noise.…”
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Chance in Biology : Using Probability to Explore Nature. by Denny, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Chance in Biology; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Nature of Chance; 2 Rules of Disorder; 3 Discrete Patterns of Disorder; 4 Continuous Patterns of Disorder; 5 Random Walks; 6 More Random Walks; 7 The Statistics of Extremes; 8 Noise and Perception; 9 The Answers; Symbol Index; Author Index; Subject Index.…”
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Chance in Biology : Using Probability to Explore Nature. by Denny, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Chance in Biology; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Nature of Chance; 2 Rules of Disorder; 3 Discrete Patterns of Disorder; 4 Continuous Patterns of Disorder; 5 Random Walks; 6 More Random Walks; 7 The Statistics of Extremes; 8 Noise and Perception; 9 The Answers; Symbol Index; Author Index; Subject Index.…”
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Introductory statistics by Ross, Sheldon M.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to statistics -- Describing data sets -- Using statistics to summarize data sets -- Probability -- Discrete random variables -- Normal random variables -- Distributions of sampling statistics -- Estimation -- Testing statistical hypotheses -- Hypothesis tests concerning two populations -- Analysis of variance -- Linear regression -- Chi-squared goodness-of-fit tests -- Nonparametric hypotheses tests -- Quality control.…”
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Mathematical Statistics for Economics and Business by Mittelhammer, Ron (Ronald Carl), 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Mathematical Expectation and Moments -- 3.1. Expectation of a Random Variable -- 3.2. Expectation of a Function of Random Variables -- 3.3. …”
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Statistical Tables, Explained and Applied. by Laurencelle, Louis

Table of Contents: “…-- Factorial (ascending n[symbol], descending n[symbol]) -- Gamma [Gamma distribution G[symbol](x), Gamma function [symbol] (x))] -- Integration (analytic, direct) -- Integration (numerical) -- Interpolation (linear, harmonic) -- Mean (of a random variable), [symbol] or E(X), [symbol] -- Moments of a distribution [[symbol], [symbol], [symbol], [symbol]] -- Moment estimates [[symbol], s[symbol], g[symbol], g[symbol]] -- Poisson distribution, Po([symbol][symbol]) -- Probability density function, p(x) -- Probability distribution function, P(x) -- Simpson's (parabolic) rule -- Standard deviation (of a random variable), [symbol], s -- Uniform distribution, U(a, b) and [symbol](0,1) -- Variance (of a random variable), [symbol][symbol] or var(X), s[symbol].…”
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Interpolation of Spatial Data : Some Theory for Kriging. by Stein, Michael L.

Table of Contents: “…Springer Series in Statistics; Interpolation of Spatial Data; Copyright; Preface; Contents; 1 Linear Prediction; 2 Properties of Random Fields; 3 Asymptotic Properties of Linear Predictors; 4 Equivalence of Gaussian Measures and Prediction; 5 Integration of Random Fields; 6 Predicting With Estimated Parameters; Appendix A Multivariate Normal Distributions; Appendix B Symbols; References; Index.…”
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Stochastic Growth Equations : Mathematics and Modeling. by Panik, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…1.12.4 Integral of a Measurable Function on a Measurable Set1.12.5 Convergence of Sequences of Functions; Chapter 2 Mathematical Foundations 2: Probability, Random Variables, and Convergence of Random Variables; 2.1 Probability Spaces; 2.2 Probability Distributions; 2.3 The Expectation of a Random Variable; 2.3.1 Theoretical Underpinnings; 2.3.2 Computational Considerations; 2.4 Moments of a Random Variable; 2.5 Multiple Random Variables; 2.5.1 The Discrete Case; 2.5.2 The Continuous Case; 2.5.3 Expectations and Moments; 2.5.4 The Multivariate Discrete and Continuous Cases.…”
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Introduction to Mixed Modelling : Beyond Regression and Analysis of Variance. by Galwey, Nick

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 2 The need for more than one random-effect term in a designed experiment; 2.1 The split plot design: A design with more than one random-effect term; 2.2 The analysis of variance of the split plot design: A random-effect term for the main plots; 2.3 Consequences of failure to recognize the main plots when analysing the split plot design; 2.4 The use of mixed modelling to analyse the split plot design; 2.5 A more conservative alternative to the F and Wald statistics; 2.6 Justification for regarding block effects as random.…”
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Harmonic functions on trees and buildings : Workshop on Harmonic Functions on Graphs, October 30-November 3, 1995, City University of New York

Table of Contents: “…. -- Local fields and trees -- Martin boundaries and random walks -- A brief introduction to buildings -- Local fields and buildings -- Part II. …”
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Machine Learning Techniques for Time Series Classification by Botsch, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Interpretable Generalized Radial Basis Function Classifiers Based on the Random Forest Kernel -- 4. Classification of Temporal Data -- 5. …”
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Stochastic systems in merging phase space by Koroli︠u︡k, V. S. (Vladimir Semenovich), 1925-

Table of Contents: “…Stochastic Systems with Switching -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Stochastic Integral Functionals -- 2.3 Increment Processes -- 2.4 Stochastic Evolutionary Systems -- 2.5 Markov Additive Processes -- 2.6 Stochastic Additive Functionals -- 2.7 Random Evolutions -- 2.7.1 Continuous Random Evolutions -- 2.7.2 Jump Random Evolutions -- 2.7.3 Semi-Markov Random Evolutions -- 2.8 Extended Compensating Operators -- 2.9 Markov Additive Semimartingales -- 2.9.1 Impulsive Processes -- 2.9.2 Continuous Predictable Characteristics -- 3. …”
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Pattern in the teaching and learning of mathematics

Table of Contents: “…About the Contributors; Preface; 1 Pattern in the Nursery; 2 Repeating Patterns in the Early Primary Years; 3 Primary School Children's Knowledge of Odd and Even Numbers; 4 Patterns in Processing and Learning Addition Facts; 5 Children's Strategies with Linear and Quadratic Sequences; 6 Teaching and Assessing Patterns in Number in the Primary Years; 7 Pattern and the Approach to Algebra; 8 Pictorial and Practical Contexts and the Perception of Pattern; 9 Children's Understanding of Graphic Relations; 10 Children's Perception of Pattern in Relation to Shape; 11 Pattern and Randomness.…”
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Chaos : a very short introduction by Smith, Leonard A.

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of chaos -- Exponential growth, nonlinearity, common sense -- Chaos in context: determinism, randomness, and noise -- Chaos in mathematical models -- Fractals, strange attractors, and dimension(s) -- Quantifying the dynamics of uncertainty -- Real numbers, real observations, and computers -- Sorry, wrong number: statistics and chaos -- Predictability: does chaos constrain our forecasts? …”
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The business forecasting deal : exposing myths, eliminating bad practices, providing practical solutions by Gilliland, Michael

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The Evolution of Technical Analysis : Financial Prediction from Babylonian Tablets to Bloomberg Terminals. by Lo, Andrew W.

Table of Contents: “…The Evolution of Technical Analysis: Financial Prediction from Babylonian Tablets to Bloomberg Terminals; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Ancient Roots; Chapter 2: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Chapter 3: Asia; Chapter 4: The New World; Chapter 5: A New Age for Technical Analysis; Chapter 6: Technical Analysis Today; Chapter 7: A Brief History of Randomness and Efficient Markets; Chapter 8: Academic Approaches to Technical Analysis; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Index.…”
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Multiscale And Multiresolution Approaches In Turbulence. by Deck, Sebastien, Terracol, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 A Brief Introduction to Turbulence -- 1.1 Common Features of Turbulent Flows -- 1.1.1 Introductory concepts -- 1.1.2 Randomness and coherent structure in turbulent flows -- 1.2 Turbulent Scales and Complexity of a Turbulent Field -- 1.2.1 Basic equations of turbulent flow -- 1.2.2 Defining turbulent scales -- 1.2.3 A glimpse at numerical simulations of turbulent flows -- 1.3 Inter-scale Coupling in Turbulent Flows -- 1.3.1 The energy cascade -- 1.3.2 Inter-scale interactions -- 2 Turbulence Simulation and Scale Separation -- 2.1 Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flows -- 2.2 Reducing the Cost of the Simulations -- 2.2.1 Scale separation -- 2.2.2 Navier-Stokes-based equations for the resolved quantities -- 2.2.3 Navier-Stokes-based equations for the unresolved quantities.…”
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Design and Analysis of Sensory Optimization. by Gacula, Maximo C.

Table of Contents: “…DESIGNS FOR COMPARING TWO POPULATIONS; 3. COMPLETELY RANDOM AND RANDOMIZED COMPLETE BLOCK DESIGN; 4. INCOMPLETE BLOCK DESIGNS; 5. …”
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Python Artificial Intelligence Projects for Beginners : Get up and Running with Artificial Intelligence Using 8 Smart and Exciting AI Applications. by Eckroth, Joshua

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Building Your Own Prediction Models; Classification overview and evaluation techniques; Evaluation; Decision trees; Common APIs for scikit-learn classifiers; Prediction involving decision trees and student performance data; Summary; Chapter 2: Prediction with Random Forests; Random forests; Usage of random forest; Predicting bird species with random forests; Making a confusion matrix for the data; Summary; Chapter 3: Applications for Comment Classification; Text classification.…”
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Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Geostatistical Modeling and Kriging. by Montero, José-María

Table of Contents: “…2.3 Stationary and intrinsic hypotheses 2.3.1 Stationarity ; 2.3.2 Stationary random functions in the strict sense ; 2.3.3 Second-order stationary random functions ; 2.3.4 Intrinsically stationary random functions ; 2.3.5 Non-stationary random functions ; 2.4 Support.…”
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An introduction to probability and statistics by Rohatgi, V. K., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ENUMERATION OF THEOREMS AND REFERENCES; CHAPTER 1 PROBABILITY; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 SAMPLE SPACE; 1.3 PROBABILITY AXIOMS; 1.4 COMBINATORICS: PROBABILITY ON FINITE SAMPLE SPACES; 1.5 CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY AND BAYES THEOREM; 1.6 INDEPENDENCE OF EVENTS; CHAPTER 2RANDOM VARIABLES AND THEIR PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 RANDOM VARIABLES; 2.3 PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF A RANDOM VARIABLE; 2.4 DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLES.…”
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Statistics with JMP Graphs, Descriptive Statistics and Probability. by Goos, Peter

Table of Contents: “…5.2.1 Two different objects -- 5.2.2 More than two different objects -- 5.3 Applications of probability theory -- 5.3.1 Sequences of independent random experiments -- 5.3.2 Euromillions -- Chapter 6 Univariate random variables -- 6.1 Random variables and distribution functions -- 6.2 Discrete random variables and probability distributions -- 6.3 Continuous random variables and probability densities -- 6.4 Functions of random variables -- 6.4.1 Functions of one discrete random variable -- 6.4.2 Functions of one continuous random variable…”
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Algebraic Shift Register Sequences

Table of Contents: “…Cover; ALGEBRAIC SHIFT REGISTER SEQUENCES; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; 1.1 Pseudo-random sequences; 1.2 LFSR sequences; 1.3 FCSR sequences; 1.4 Register synthesis; 1.5 Applications of pseudo-random sequences; 1.5.1 Frequency hopping spread spectrum; 1.5.2 Code division multiple access; 1.5.3 Optical CDMA; 1.5.4 Synchronization and radar; 1.5.5 Stream ciphers; 1.5.6 Pseudo-random arrays; 1.5.7 Monte Carlo; 1.5.8 Built in self test; 1.5.9 Wear leveling; Part I: Algebraically defined sequences; 2: Sequences; 2.1 Sequences and period.…”
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Exchange Rates and International Finance Markets : an Asset-Theoretic Perspective with Schumpeterian. by Streissler, Erich W.

Table of Contents: “…Exchange rates in the light of Schumpeter, but not of Diocletian; Diocletian's pretium verum; Price-theoretic fundamentals of modern economics and their inapplicability to certain assets; Schumpeter, Hayek and Keynes on innovation and entrepreneurship; Notes; Preliminaries Friedman's case for flexible exchange rates versus random walks in theory and practice; Martingales and random walks; Some exchange rate empirics; Notes; Equilibria? …”
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Perfect passwords : selection, protection, authentication by Burnett, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Passwords : the basics and beyond -- Meet your opponent -- Is random really random? -- Character diversity : beyond the alphabet -- Password length : making it count -- Time : the enemy of all secrets -- Living with passwords -- Ten password pointers : building strong passwords -- The 500 worst passwords of all time -- Another ten password pointers plus a bonus pointer -- The three rules for strong passwords -- Celebrate password day -- The three elements of authentication.…”
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Probabilistic methods in geometry, topology, and spectral theory

Table of Contents: “…Regularization of GFF on ℝⁿ; 4. Random Measure and KPZ in ℝ³; References; Tangent nodal sets for random spherical harmonics; 1. …”
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Selected papers of Takeyuki Hida by Hida, Takeyuki, 1927-2017

Table of Contents: “…Variational Calculus and Random Fields; [26] Multidimensional Parameter White Noise and Gaussian Random Fields; [27] A Note on Generalized Gaussian Random Fields; [28] White Noise and Stochastic Variational Calculus for Gaussian Random Fields; [29] Variational Calculus for Gaussian Random Fields; [30] Innovations for Random Fields; VII. …”
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Problems and Snapshots from the World of Probability by Blom, Gunnar, Holst, Lars, Sandell, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Basic probability theory I -- 2.1 Remarkable conditional probabilities -- 2.2 Exchangeability I -- 2.3 Exchangeability II -- 2.4 Combinations of events I -- 2.5 Problems concerning random numbers -- 2.6 Zero-one random variables I -- 3. …”
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Fighting for reliable evidence by Gueron, Judith M.

Table of Contents: “…Bridge to the 1980s: Implementing Random Assignment in Work Incentive Program Offices and Testing a Job Guarantee; Chapter 4. …”
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Detection Estimation and Modulation Theory, Part I Detection, Estimation, and Filtering Theory. by Van Trees, Harry L.

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Stochastic processes by Medhi, J. (Jyotiprasad)

Table of Contents: “…""Cover""; ""Preface to the International Edition ""; ""Contents ""; ""Chapter 1 Random Variables and Stochastic Processes ""; ""1.1 Generating Functions ""; ""1.1.1 Introduction""; ""1.1.2 Probability Generating Function: Mean and Variance""; ""1.1.3 Sum of (a Fixed Number of) Random Variables""; ""1.1.4 Sum of a Random Number of Discrete Random Variables (Stochastic Sum)""; ""1.1.5 Generating Function of Bivariate Distribution""; ""1.2 Laplace Transform ""; ""1.2.1 Introduction""; ""1.2.2 Some Important Properties of Laplace Transforms: see Appendix A1""; ""1.2.3 Inverse Laplace Transform""…”
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Sample size calculations for clustered and longitudinal outcomes in clinical research by Ahn, Chul, 1956-, Heo, Moonseoung, Zhang, Song

Table of Contents: “…Sample size determination for correlated outcomes from two-level randomized clinical trials -- 6. Sample size determination for correlated outcomes from three-level randomized clinical trials.…”
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