Modeling

This is an excellent book for anyone who wishes to not only understand the theory behind latent growth curve modeling but also seeing how it is directly applied in a number of situations. For a reader like me who depends upon the literature to help understand newer statistical approaches, a book like this is a breath of fresh air. The book presents very clearly how to set up a basic LGC model and includes other topics such as dealing with missing data, interaction effects and multilevel approaches to longitudinal data analysis. The appendix contains a number of example LGCM models in the software language of EQS, LISREL and AMOS. I most highly recommend this text for beginners and more advanced modelers alike!

Matrix Analytic Methods (MAM) are great modeling tools that can analyze a variety of stochastic systems in a unified way and in an algorithmically tractable manner. This book is one of the greatest that have been published on queueing theory and stochastic modeling.
This book covers
1. Examples of quasi-birth-and-death (QBD) processes.
2. Phase-type distributions
3. Stationary and non-stationary QBDs
4. Algorithms (from probabilistic reasoning)
5. And many others.
I used this book as a text for my graduate students and it was a real pleasure. Throughout the books, readers will see MAM as an art of modeling and analysis of stochastic systems, not the pile of techniques.
This book is aiming at readers in queueing theory, computer science, OR/MS, statistics, mathematics, and many other related disciplines. This book also serves as the source of bibliography not otherwise easily available.

One of the weakest points of the new object-oriented modelling language Modelica was the lack of an introduction to help engineers and scientists understand the differences to other modelling concepts. Using many examples from the automotive industry, electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering this book explains the concept of physical modelling, i. e. using basic laws to describe physical systems, and shows how to formulate these principles in Modelica. The Modelica language is presented in a series of examples that gradually grow more complex. The companion CD contains the complete source code of the examples and a working version of the commercial tool Dymola. The reader can thus start with the given examples and modify them to get some practise with the tool and the language.

The emphasis of the presentation is on the engineering task of building a model, for more theoretical questions references are given.

I like this book because of it's hands-on approach. It gives a comprehensive introduction to physical modeling and the new language Modelica and I can recommend it to engineers and scientists who have to create or use models of physical systems.

It's a slim volume that says alot. It gives the basic foundation of yield estimation and statistics required.

It speaks to a physicist.

"The only thing constant in this universe and our lives is change", as explained in an ancient Hindu Scriptures.

How do we determine the impact of constantly changing parameters around us, and what measures can we take to prepare for those changes?

Can we manipulate the variables to have a desired outcome?

Can we prepare for the dire consequences if the variables are beyond our power of manipulations?

Can we allocate our resources appropriately if we know the consequences of inactions?..........

And many more questions can be answered by the technique of dynamic system simulation. The book has ample of examples, is very well written, and is easy to follow.

One's imagination is the only limiting factor in applying the techniques of Dynamo. It could be applied to study farming, ecological balance, impact of wrath or blessings of mother nature such as drought or rain, population shifts, and much more.

For a serious student of simulation technique, I strongly recommend this book.

I thougt this book was packed with great info and shared a lot of great ideas! If you are intersested in acting, get this book!

An excellent introduction to the logic underlying typed feature structures which is also the logic underlying formal linguistic theories such as HPSG or LFG. This book is a bible for computational linguists!

And Bob Carpenter is a supah kool guy, too...

This is an excellent book for children aged 6 to 10 who like to do arts and crafts projects. The instructions are easy to follow and the pictures are colorful. The book inspired me to plan several art projects over the summer. A must have for rainy days or when it is just too hot to go outside. Buy it!

This book has the greatest fashion and beauty photographs ever taken! If you've ever longed for a world in which men take better care of their appearance, let this book work it's magical, balmy spell.:)

This college-level text is also useful to business and IT professionals because it provides a refresher for decision techniques that are the foundation of a number of disciplines. The book is divided into two parts: (1) deterministic methods, mainly focused on linear programming and optimization, and (2) probability and queuing.

What makes this book valuable to the practicing professional is that it uses one of the most common business tools, Microsoft Excel, and shows how to apply this tool to real world problems. The accompanying CD ROM comes with TreePlan for developing decision trees and CrystalBall for Monte Carlo simulation, as well as workbooks that are used to support the plethora of realistic examples used throughout the book.

Although the book is business-oriented and better suited for operations analysis and MBA students and practitioners, I've used it as a reference for project planning, computer system capacity planning and performance analysis, and IT security risk management - these practical uses of the material show the value of the book in the real world. The supporting web site that the author maintains has materials for lesson plans, errata and additional resources that make this book particularly valuable for the academic and business environments.