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Designed for a one-semester advanced undergraduate or graduate statistical theory course, this book clearly explains the underlying ideas, mathemat...

This undergraduate textbook provides a statistical mechanical foundation to the classical laws of thermodynamics via a comprehensive treatment of t...

Statistics Analysis of Geographical Data: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory and practice of statis...

SPSS Explained provides the student with all that they need to undertake statistical analysis using SPSS. It combines a step-by-step approach to ea...

The second edition offers an update on the single most comprehensive survey of the two intertwined fields of spintronics and magnetism, covering th...

Microorganisms are essential for the production of many foods, including cheese, yoghurt, and bread, but they can also cause spoilage and diseases....

The past few years have witnessed an upsurge in incidences relating to food safety issues, which are all attributed to different factors. Today, wi...

Based on the author’s many years of lectures and tutorials at Novosibirsk State University and the University of Manchester, Physics of Continuous ...

For students in industrial and systems engineering (ISE) and operations research (OR) to understand optimization at an advanced level, they must fi...

Praise for the Second Edition "An essential desktop reference book . . . it should definitely be on your bookshelf." —Technometrics A thoroughly ...

This book covers all topics in mechanics from elementary Newtonian mechanics, the principles of canonical mechanics and rigid body mechanics to rel...

This book, presented in two parts, offers a slow introduction to mathematical logic, and several basic concepts of model theory, such as first-orde...

This book covers the classical theory of Markov chains on general state-spaces as well as many recent developments. The theoretical results are ill...

Through four editions, Lactic Acid Bacteria: Microbiological and Functional Aspects, has provided readers with information on the how’s and why’s l...

This introductory textbook covers fundamental quantum mechanics from an application perspective, considering optoelectronic devices, biological sen...

A major tool for quality control and management, statistical process control (SPC) monitors sequential processes, such as production lines and Inte...

"This book provides a practical description of optics that satisfies the needs often encountered by some engineers in the practice of their profess...

Introduction to Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulations is written as a textbook for readers who want to understand the main principles of M...

Involving rigorous analysis, computational dexterity, and a breadth of applications, this text is ideal for an undergraduate honors calculus course...

A unique approach to stochastic processes that connects the mathematical formulation of random processes to their use in applications This book pr...

Praise for the First Edition “This excellent text should prove a useful accoutrement for any developing mathematics program . . . it’s short, it’s...

THE COMPLETE COLLECTION NECESSARY FOR A CONCRETE UNDERSTANDING OF PROBABILITY Written in a clear, accessible, and comprehensive manner, the Handbo...

This stimulating textbook presents a broad and accessible guide to the fundamentals of discrete mathematics, highlighting how the techniques may be...

Features recent trends and advances in the theory and techniques used to accurately measure and model growth Growth Curve Modeling: Theory and App...

First published in 1979, Group Counseling has consistently been a widely used and praised text, providing both novice and experienced counselors wi...

As demonstrated by five Nobel Prizes in physics, radio astronomy has contributed greatly to our understanding of the Universe. Yet for too long, th...

This innovative textbook bridges the gap between undergraduate analysis and graduate measure theory by guiding students from the classical foundati...

This book sheds new light on Transform methods, which dominate the study of linear time-invariant systems in all areas of science and engineering, ...

Foundations of Risk Analysis presents the issues core to risk analysis – understanding what risk means, expressing risk, building risk models, add...

Foundations of Fuzzy Control: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition has been significantly revised and updated, with two new chapters on Gain Schedulin...

Food webs have now been addressed in empirical and theoretical research for more than 50 years. Yet, even elementary foundational issues are still ...

Essentials & Applications of Food Engineering provides a comprehensive understanding of food engineering operations and their practical and ind...

Fluency with physics fundamentals and problem-solving has a collateral effect on students by enhancing their analytical reasoning skills. In a sens...

This book gives a somewhat unconventional introduction to stochastic analysis. Although most of the material coveredhere has appeared in other plac...

This unique text for beginning graduate students gives a self-contained introduction to the mathematical properties of stochastics and presents the...

Following its bestselling predecessor, Dimensions of Food, Eighth Edition, provides beneficial classroom and independent, instructive material for ...

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the landmark text focusing on the development of brain and b...

This book discusses cosmology from both an observational and a strong theoretical perspective. The first part focuses on gravitation, notably the e...

Computational biology has developed rapidly during the last two decades following the genomic revolution which culminated in the sequencing of the ...

This textbook takes a broad yet thorough approach to mechanics, aimed at bridging the gap between classical analytic and modern differential geomet...

This complete resource on the theory and applications of reliability engineering, probabilistic models and risk analysis consolidates all the lates...

This textbook addresses postgraduate students in applied mathematics, probability, and statistics, as well as computer scientists, biologists, phys...

The Second Edition of this contemporary approach offers notable new features. Building on the success of the First Edition, the book has gone throu...

Written in accessible language without mathematical formulas, the book covers important machine learning algorithms and their respective applicatio...

To move from empirical-based physics to the theoretical abstractness required for advanced physics requires a paradigmatic shift in logic that can ...

Functional analysis and operator theory are widely used in the description, understanding and control of dynamical systems and natural processes in...

Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion (ADME) processes and their relationship with the design of dosage forms and the success of pharm...

Additive Combinatorics: A Menu of Research Problems is the first book of its kind to provide readers with an opportunity to actively explore the re...