Statistics is the science that focuses on drawing conclusions from data, by modeling and analyzing the data using probabilistic models. In An Introduction to Mathematical Statistics the authors describe key concepts from statistics and give a mathematical basis for important statistical methods. Much attention is paid to the sound application of those methods to data.

The three main topics in statistics are estimators, tests, and confidence regions. The authors illustrate these in many exampl...

Technology today is often presented as our best hope of solving the world's social and sustainability problems. And that's nothing new: engineers have always sought to meet the big challenges of their times-even as those challenges have shaped their technology. This book offers a historical look at those interactions between engineering and social challenges, showing how engineers developed solutions to past problems, and looking at the ways that those solutions often bring with them unintend...

This book is an introduction to Intercultural Communication (IC) that takes into account the much neglected dynamic paradigm of culture in the literature. It posits that culture is not static, context is the driving force for change, and individuals can develop a multicultural mind.

It is also the first IC textbook in the field that incorporates insight from evolutionary biology and the newly emerging discipline of cultural

neurosciences. Such an interdisciplinary approach provides readers wi...

Gelukkige stad vertelt wat er gebeurde tussen het eind van Michael Pye’s Aan de rand van de wereld en de eerste bladzijde van Geert Maks bestseller De levens van Jan Six. Antwerpen groeide in de 16de eeuw uit tot ‘Felix Antverpia’, de voornaamste handelsplaats ten noorden van de Alpen, en werd het brandpunt van de ‘noordelijke renaissance’. De moderne kunsthandel ontstond, en belangrijke schilders als Quinten Metsys, Pieter Breugel en Frans Floris hadden er hun ateliers gevestigd.

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In Thuis. Het drama van een sentimentele samenleving gaat Jan Willem Duyvendak in op verschillende aspecten van ons thuisgevoel. Hij betoogt dat veel van onze conflicten, frustraties én het populistische ressentiment voortkomen uit de gedachte dat we een recht hebben op thuisgevoel. Door de politisering en de grenzeloze populariteit van thuis' raken we echter alleen maar verder van huis.Thuis is in de mode. We zien het in de media, waar Ikea-reclames en romantische speelfilms ons eraan herin...