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Book Description: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2012. Softcover. Book Condition: New. . (illustrator). . The book Statistical Definitions, Formulas and Tables provides a collection of statistical definitions, formulas and tables which will be useful to students of statistics, mathematics, economics, physics, engineering and other sciences, and researchers in these fields. Care has been taken to include only those formulas and tables which are most likely to be needed in practice, rather than highly specialised results which are rarely used. Topics covered in the book range from elementary to advanced statistics. Elementary topics include those from Collection, Classification and Tabulation of Data; Measure of Central Tendency; Measures of Dispersion; Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis; and Curve Fitting and Method of Least Squares. Advanced topics include those from Correlation Analysis; Regression Analysis; Multiple and Partial Correlation-Regression; Probability; Sampling; Theory of Estimation; Theory of Test of Significance; and Analysis of Variance. This wide coverage of topics provides within a single volume, most of the important statistical results needed by students and researchers, regardless of their particular field of interest or level of attainment. The book has been divided into two parts. First part contains statistical definitions and formulas and the second part covers statistical tables. An important feature of this book is that the figures in the tables have been approximated, which is basic to the application of statistical models in the real world. The book will be very useful for the students of Science, Economics, Commerce, Engineering, Psychology, Business Management and Finance. To those preparing for various competitive examinations it will be of great help for quick revision of definitions, formulas and statistics. Contents : Preface?DEFINITIONS & FORMULAS?Collection, Classification and Tabulation of Data; Measures of Central Tendency; Measures of Dispersion; Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis; Curve Fitting and Method of Least Squares; Correlation Analysis; Regression Analysis; Multiple and Partial Correlation-Regression; Interpolation and Extrapolation; Probability; Sampling Theory; Theory of Estimation; Theory of Test of Significance; Chi-Square Test; Tests of Significance Based on t, F and z Distributions; Time Series Analysis; Analysis of Variance (ANOVA); Index Numbers; Association of Attributes?TABLES?Cumulative Binomial Probabilities; Binomial Distribution Function; Binomial Coefficients; Cumulative Poisson Probabilities; Areas in Upper Tail of the Normal Distribution; Standard Normal Distribution Function; Ordinates (Y) of the Standard Normal Curve at z; Percentage Points of the Normal Distribution; Ordinates of the Normal Distribution; Exponential Function e-x; Percentage Points of the t Distribution; Percentage Points of the c2 Distribution; Percentage Points of the F Distribution; Percentage Points of the Correlation Coefficient; Tukey?s Wholly Significant Difference at 5% Level; Percentage Points of Spearman?s Rank Correlation Coefficient; Percentage Points of Kendall?s Rank Correlation Coefficient; Percentage Points of Nair?s ?Studentised? Extreme Deviate from the Mean; Upper Percentage Points of Dixon?s Rank Difference Ratio; Percentage Points of D in the One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Distribution; Percentage Points of D in the Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Distribution; Lower Percentage Points of the Wilcoxon Signed-rank Distribution; Lower Percentage Points of the Mann-Whitney U-Distribution; Percentage Points of Friedman?s Distribution; Upper Tails of the Kruskal-Wallis Distribution; Control Chart Factors for Sample Mean; Control Chart Factors for Sample Range Using; Control Chart Factors for Sample Range Using s; Control Chart Constants; Values of e?m (For Computing Poisson Probabilities) (o < m < 1); Tolerance Factors for the Normal Distribution; Sample Size for Tw Printed Pages: 252. Bookseller Inventory # 70187

Book Description: American Institute of Physics, New York, 1974. Paperback. Book Condition: Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. AF1 - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Vol. 55, No. 5, May 1974) Book has some wrinkling and wear on the spine, lightly bumped on the bottom spine, light wrinkling on some edges and corners, moderate discoloration (browning), and shelf wear otherwise good. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America is published monthly by the American Institute of Physics for the Acoustical Society of America. This issue contains articles by S.N. De, P.R. Sen-Gupta, M. Schoenberg, Richard K. Cook, H.S. Brown, S.F. Clifford, E.H. Brown, T.M. Georges, S.F. Clifford, G.H. Hunter, M.V. Lowson, Allan D. Pierce, Alan R. Wenzel, Marianne Carlson, John T. Hunt, George E. Stanford, Anant K. Nigam, H.H. Mabie, C.B. Rogers, John R. Mays, James E. Nelson, P.S. Nair, S. Durvasula, Chang-Tsan Sun, J.M. Whitney, Robert L. Hershey, Thomas H. Higgins, Edward B. Magrab, Clive L. Dym, J.E. West, G.M. Sessler, J.L. Flanagan, A.H. Gray Jr., Albert H. Nuttall, G. Clifford Carter, Ernest M. Montavon, Leonard P. Winkler, Mischa Schwartz, Brian C.J. Moore, David H. Raab, M.R. Schroeder, J.L. Hall, Ernst Terhardt, M.M. Sondhi, A.P. Edson, & E.L. Huston. Bookseller Inventory # EC5731BB

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Book Description: BSP, Hyderabad, 2004. Hardbound. Book Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. Land use management practices in India 1. Land use management practices retrospect and prospect/G. Ravi Shankar V. Raghavaswamy and N. C. Gautam. 2. Efficient management of land use keeping in view the ground water aspects/Asis Battacharya. II. Land use dynamics and farming system 3. Land use/land cover change with special reference to India/R. Nagaraja and R. R. Navalgund. 4. Soil fertility management in Andhra Pradesh/ A. Sreenivasa Raju. 5. Irrigability and productivity classification of some typical soils of Bhagalpur district of Bihar and their suitability for land use planning/S.K. Chandra and V. N. Singh. 6. Effect of forest leaf litter and litter compost on soil properties and growth and yield of Chilli in Laterite soils of Konkan region/K. N. Chavan S.S. Magar and D. K. Umap. III. Land use database generation and management 7. National (natural) resources information system (NRIS)/A. R. Das Gupta and R. K. Goel. 8. Remote sensing sensors and their applications with special reference to land use studies/A. S. Manjunath. 9. Remote sensing & GIS for land use/ land cover data generation at national Level An Indian experience/R Nagaraja G Ravi Shankar Manoj Raj Saxena and Rajiv Kumar and B Shyamsunder. 10. Statistical methods in land use data an analysis/Saroja Rama Rao and J. Siva Ram. IV. Land Use/Land cover and environmental issues 11. An understanding of land use/land cover with particular reference to forests in India/J.K. Rawat. 12. Geoinformatics for biodiversity assessment/MSR Murthy. 13. Disaster management and mitigation using Satellite remote sensing a few case studies/V Bhanumurthy. 14. Management of land resources in Behal Singham area Bhiwani District Haryana for Eco Development/K E Mothi Kumar M L Manchanda and G Behera. V. Land Degradation and Land use Models 15. Remote sensing for soils and land degradation/L. Venkataratnam and T. Ravisankar. 16. Land degradation status in India/S. N. Das. 17. Drivers of land degradation in Uttar Pradesh Past present and future/A N Singh. 18. Role of high resolution remotely sensed data in micro level planning/P V S P Prasada Raju/Sujata Ghosh and J. Saibabu. VI. Watershed management and sustainable agriculture 19. Delineation of watershed for land and water resource planning and development/N.C. Gautam V. Raghavswamy R. Nagaraja G. Ravi Shankar and P. Rama Mohan. 20. Integrated watershed management in dry land tracts/Y. S. Ramakrishna K. D. Sharma and P K Mishra. 21. Production systems approach in watershed management using remote sensing techniques a case study/B R M Rao. VII. Urban land use planning and land management 22. Urban land use planning and land management using remote sensing and GIS/V Raghavswamy. 23. Satellite based urban land use maps for Hyderabad metropolitan area The January 2003 draft master plan for Hyderabad seeking better public participation/S. P. Shorey and V. Raghavswamy. 24. Scenic evaluation for recreational land use a study on regional morphoforms in Khammam District Andhra Pradesh/ S. Padmaja and G. Somnath. 25. Behavioral Trends Consumers patterns a study in retail land use activities/S. Padmaja and Mohammed Akther Ali. VIII. Land use policies and strategies 26. Land use policies for the new century an Adaptive cum human ecosystems approach/ K. V. Sundaram 27. Land use planning need and strategies with special reference to Uttar Pradesh/Mridula Singh. 28. A blueprint to modernize land administration procedures in the state of Andhra Pradesh/P V S Madhusudana Rao. 29. Cost effective technology for assessment of land use/L R A Narayan. Land resources in the country are limited and are declining due to increasing population land degradation and land conversions. Today the availability of information on land use/land cover in the form of thematic maps records and statistical figures are inadequate and are not up to date on the changing land use patterns and processes. The National Conference on land use/land cover & Management. Bookseller Inventory # 51031

Book Description: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 2012. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. . (illustrator). . The book Statistical Definitions, Formulas and Tables provides a collection of statistical definitions, formulas and tables which will be useful to students of statistics, mathematics, economics, physics, engineering and other sciences, and researchers in these fields. Care has been taken to include only those formulas and tables which are most likely to be needed in practice, rather than highly specialised results which are rarely used. Topics covered in the book range from elementary to advanced statistics. Elementary topics include those from Collection, Classification and Tabulation of Data; Measure of Central Tendency; Measures of Dispersion; Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis; and Curve Fitting and Method of Least Squares. Advanced topics include those from Correlation Analysis; Regression Analysis; Multiple and Partial Correlation-Regression; Probability; Sampling; Theory of Estimation; Theory of Test of Significance; and Analysis of Variance. This wide coverage of topics provides within a single volume, most of the important statistical results needed by students and researchers, regardless of their particular field of interest or level of attainment. The book has been divided into two parts. First part contains statistical definitions and formulas and the second part covers statistical tables. An important feature of this book is that the figures in the tables have been approximated, which is basic to the application of statistical models in the real world. The book will be very useful for the students of Science, Economics, Commerce, Engineering, Psychology, Business Management and Finance. To those preparing for various competitive examinations it will be of great help for quick revision of definitions, formulas and statistics. Contents : Preface?DEFINITIONS & FORMULAS?Collection, Classification and Tabulation of Data; Measures of Central Tendency; Measures of Dispersion; Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis; Curve Fitting and Method of Least Squares; Correlation Analysis; Regression Analysis; Multiple and Partial Correlation-Regression; Interpolation and Extrapolation; Probability; Sampling Theory; Theory of Estimation; Theory of Test of Significance; Chi-Square Test; Tests of Significance Based on t, F and z Distributions; Time Series Analysis; Analysis of Variance (ANOVA); Index Numbers; Association of Attributes?TABLES?Cumulative Binomial Probabilities; Binomial Distribution Function; Binomial Coefficients; Cumulative Poisson Probabilities; Areas in Upper Tail of the Normal Distribution; Standard Normal Distribution Function; Ordinates (Y) of the Standard Normal Curve at z; Percentage Points of the Normal Distribution; Ordinates of the Normal Distribution; Exponential Function e-x; Percentage Points of the t Distribution; Percentage Points of the c2 Distribution; Percentage Points of the F Distribution; Percentage Points of the Correlation Coefficient; Tukey?s Wholly Significant Difference at 5% Level; Percentage Points of Spearman?s Rank Correlation Coefficient; Percentage Points of Kendall?s Rank Correlation Coefficient; Percentage Points of Nair?s ?Studentised? Extreme Deviate from the Mean; Upper Percentage Points of Dixon?s Rank Difference Ratio; Percentage Points of D in the One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Distribution; Percentage Points of D in the Two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Distribution; Lower Percentage Points of the Wilcoxon Signed-rank Distribution; Lower Percentage Points of the Mann-Whitney U-Distribution; Percentage Points of Friedman?s Distribution; Upper Tails of the Kruskal-Wallis Distribution; Control Chart Factors for Sample Mean; Control Chart Factors for Sample Range Using; Control Chart Factors for Sample Range Using s; Control Chart Constants; Values of e?m (For Computing Poisson Probabilities) (o < m < 1); Tolerance Factors for the Normal Distribution; Sample Size for Tw Printed Pages: 246. Bookseller Inventory # 70184

Book Description: New India Publishing Agency, 2008. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. . (illustrator). . The book "Applied Bioinformatics, Statistics and Economics in Fisheries Research" is first of its kind available in the market. The book spreading over 42 chapters within three broad sections like aqua-informatics, statistics and economics has covered the advanced tools and techniques of bioinformatics and statistics for exploratory analysis of genomic and microarray data of fishes. Chapters on the latest developments on biotechnological approaches for fish disease diagnostic, infection and immunity of brood carps, cryoconservation of fishes, probiotics and nanotechnology in aquaculture are of paramount interest, in addition to information on prawn aquaculture, ornamental fish farming and trade. Information on various software and their application for exploratory data analysis and data mining leading to knowledge discovery and visualization is the main attraction of the book. Another important feature of the book is that one can find appropriate as well as illustrated examples exclusively with fisheries data. The statistics section includes biometrical and qualitative techniques in genetics and selective breeding of fish, besides fundamental statistical test, design of experiments and sampling methods for planning of experiments and survey in fisheries and aquaculture research. The book also includes econometric approach for technical efficiency estimation and input-output analysis, project evaluation, and impact assessment, linear programming, market intelligence, fisheries legislation, policy and IPR issues all of which are new in the field of fisheries and aquaculture. The book will not only be beneficial to students, but also will be a helpful guidance to researchers and planners for taking policy decisions as it covers a wide range of subjects that are gainfully applied to the fisheries and aquaculture research Contents Preface Chapter 1. Growth of Biotechnology Information System Network (BTISnet) in India by T. Madhan Mohan Chapter 2. Capacity Building for Knowledge Management in Aquaculture Research by A.K. Roy & Nirupama Panda Chapter 3. Data Generation Resources for Bioinformatics by P. Das Chapter 4. Correspondence Analysis in Study of Genomic Sequence of Labeo rohita by A.K. Roy & Sushma R. Martha Chapter 5. Statistical Design and Analysis of Microarray Data of Carps by A.K. Roy, Chinmayee Sahoo & Sushma R. Martha Chapter 6. Recent Biotechnological Approaches in Fish Disease Diagnosis by P.K. Sahoo Chapter 7. Present Trends in Aquaculture Probiotics by S. Mohanty & N.K. Maiti Chapter 8. Infection and Immunity of Brood Carps by P. Swain, P.K. Nanda & S. Dash Chapter 9. Induced Breeding Experiments of an Indian Major Carp Labeo rohita- A Cause Effect Study by S.D. Gupta & S.C. Rath Chapter 10. Freshwater Prawn Aquaculture: Status and Scope by Bindu R. Pillai Chapter 11. Artificial Propagation and Cryoconservation of Fishes by P. Routray Chapter 12. Methods of Assessment of Microbial Population and their Role in Aquatic Ecosystem by N.K. Maiti, R.N. Mandal & S. Mohanty Chapter 13. Present Scenario of Ornamental Fish Farming and Trade by Saroj K. Swain Chapter 14. Spatial Information Technology in Aquaculture and Inland Fisheries by M. N. Reddy, G.P. Reddy & B.S. Sontakki Chapter 15. Role of GIS and Remote Sensing in Inland Fisheries Development by Sanjeev Kumar Sahu Chapter 16. Computer Based Advanced Tools for Soil-Water Management in Aquaculture by Subhendu Adhikari & Bibhudatta Mishra Chapter 17. Non-Invasive Methods of Fish Freshness Determination by Electronic Olfaction by Nabarun Bhattacharya, Bipin Tudu, Rajib Bandopadhyaya & Devdulal Ghosh Chapter 18. Nanotechnology and Its Impact on Aquaculture by Fahima Dilnawaz & Sanjeeb K. Sahoo Chapter 19. Design and Development of Fisheries Data Mart in India by Anil Rai, K.K. Chaturvedi & P.K. Malhotra Chapter 20. Applicat Printed Pages: 360. Bookseller Inventory # 65427

Book Description: New India Pub Agency, New Delhi, 2008. Hardbound. Book Condition: As New. New. Contents Foreword/M.K. Bhan. Foreword/S. Ayyappan. Preface. Contributors. Bioinformatics 1. Growth of Biotechnology Information System network (BTISnet) in India/T. Madhan Mohan. 2. Capacity building for knowledge management in aquaculture research/A.K. Roy and Nirupama Panda. 3. Data generation resources for bioinformatics/P. Das. 4. Correspondence analysis in study of genomic sequence of Labeo Rohita/A.K. Roy and Sushma R. Martha. 5. Statistical design and analysis of microarray data of carps/A.K. Roy Chinmayee Sahoo and Sushma R. Martha. 6. Recent biotechnological approaches in fish disease diagnosis/P.K. Sahoo. 7. Present trends in aquaculture probiotics/S. Mohanty and N.K. Maiti. 8. Infection and immunity of brood carps/P. Swain P.K. Nanda and S. Dash. 9. Induced breeding experiments of an Indian major carp Labeo rohita a cause effect study/S.D. Gupta and S.C. Rath. 10. Freshwater prawn aquaculture status and scope/Bindu R. Pillai. 11. Artificial propagation and cryoconservation of fishes/P. Routray. 12. Methods of assessment of microbial population and their role in aquatic ecosystem/N.K. Maiti R.N. Mandal and S. Mohanty. 13. Present scenario of ornamental fish farming and trade/Saroj K. Swain. 14. Spatial information technology in aquaculture and inland fisheries/M.N. Reddy G.P. Reddy and B.S. Sontakki. 15. Role of GIS and remote sensing in inland fisheries development/Sanjeev Kumar Sahu. 16. Computer based advanced tools for soil water management in aquaculture/Subhendu Adhikari and Bibhudatta Mishra. 17. Non invasive methods of fish freshness determination by electronic olfaction/Nabarun Bhattacharya Bipin Tudu Rajib Bandopadhyaya and Devdulal Ghosh. 18. Nanotechnology and its impact on aquaculture/Fahima Dilnawaz and Sanjeeb K. Sahoo. 19. Design and development of fisheries data mart in India/Anil Rai K.K. Chaturvedi and P.K. Malhotra. 20. Application of software in molecular marker data analysis/P.K. Meher A. Barat and P. Das. 21. Softwares relevant in fisheries and aquaculture research/A. Antony and A.K. Roy. 22. Networking professionals through discussion forums on the virtual platform/Lakshmi Murthy. 23. Mapping of fish research in India/D.B. Ramesh and S. Mohanty. Statistics 24. Statistical tests applied to aquaculture research/Rabi N. Subudhi. 25. Some statistical procedures useful for analysis testing and interpretation of aquaculture data/G.R. Maruthi Sankar. 26. Design and analysis of aquaculture experiments using statistical softwares/Ravi R. Saxena. 27. Some standard sampling techniques and use of auxiliary information in fishery surveys/Ajit Kumar Das and Rajendra Nath Das. 28. Biometrical techniques in aquaculture experiments/Ritu R. Saxena and Ravi R. Saxena. 29. Statistical programs in quantitative genetics and selective breeding studies of fish/Kanta Das Mahapatra. 30. Quantitative methods in limnology research/Snehasish Mishra. 31. Analysis of aquaculture data using computers/P.K. Satapathy and A. Antony. Economics 32. Fish production function and environmental sustainability/Kumar Das and S.T. Rout. 33. Quantitative methods in aquaculture economics research/K.N. Sahoo. 34. An econometric analysis of Shrimp farming/P.K. Katiha and Chinmoy Chakraborty. 35. Econometric approach for estimation of technical efficiency of aquaculture farms/A.K. Roy and Nibedita Jena. 36. Aquaculture market intelligence system/T. Ravisankar A.G. Ponniah and M. Krishnan. 37. Project evaluation techniques for estimation of research benefits of fisheries research/A.K. Vasisht. 38. Impact assessment of fisheries research concepts and measurement/G.P. Reddy M.N. Reddy and B.S. Sontakki. 39. Priorities decisions and evaluation of fisheries management and governance of the floodplain wetlands in India/Nagesh K. Barik. 40. Linear programming in fish diet formulation/Nibedita Jena Nirupama Panda and D.P. Rath. 41. IPR issues and fisheries research/Meenakshi Prajneshu and Abhinav Pragya. 42. Fisheries legislation and policy in India. Bookseller Inventory # 69319

Book Description: American Mathematical Society, United States, 2010. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 254 x 178 mm. Brand New Book. This volume is based on lectures presented at the AMS Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability--held March 27-29, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--and on contributed articles solicited for this volume. A decade after the publication of Contemporary Mathematics Vol. 287, the present volume demonstrates the consolidation of important areas, such as algebraic statistics, computational commutative algebra, and deeper aspects of graphical models. In statistics, this volume includes, among others, new results and applications in cubic regression models for mixture experiments, multidimensional Fourier regression experiments, polynomial characterizations of weakly invariant designs, toric and mixture models for the diagonal-effect in two-way contingency tables, topological methods for multivariate statistics, structural results for the Dirichlet distributions, inequalities for partial regression coefficients, graphical models for binary random variables, conditional independence and its relation to sub-determinants covariance matrices, connectivity of binary tables, kernel smoothing methods for partially ranked data, Fourier analysis over the dihedral groups, properties of square non-symmetric matrices, and Wishart distributions over symmetric cones. In probability, this volume includes new results related to discrete-time semi Markov processes, weak convergence of convolution products in semigroups, Markov bases for directed random graph models, functional analysis in Hardy spaces, and the Hewitt-Savage zero-one law. Table of Contents: S. A. Andersson and T. Klein -- Kiefer-complete classes of designs for cubic mixture models; V. S. Barbu and N. Limnios -- Some algebraic methods in semi-Markov chains; R. A. Bates, H. Maruri-Aguilar, E. Riccomagno, R. Schwabe, and H. P. Wynn -- Self-avoiding generating sequences for Fourier lattice designs; F. Bertrand -- Weakly invariant designs, rotatable designs and polynomial designs; C. Bocci, E. Carlini, and F. Rapallo -- Geometry of diagonal-effect models for contingency tables; P. Bubenik, G. Carlsson, P. T. Kim, and Z.-M. Luo -- Statistical topology via Morse theory persistence and nonparametric estimation; G. Budzban and G. Hognas -- Convolution products of probability measures on a compact semigroup with applications to random measures; S. Chakraborty and A. Mukherjea -- Completely simple semigroups of real $d times d$ matrices and recurrent random walks; W.-Y. Chang, R. D. Gupta, and D. S. P. Richards -- Structural properties of the generalized Dirichlet distributions; S. Chaudhuri and G. L. Tan -- On qualitative comparison of partial regression coefficients for Gaussian graphical Markov models; M. A. Cueto, J. Morton, and B. Sturmfels -- Geometry of the restricted Boltzmann machine; M. Drton and H. Xiao -- Smoothness of Gaussian conditional independence models; W. Ehm -- Projections on invariant subspaces; S. M. Evans -- A zero-one law for linear transformations of Levy noise; H. Hara and A. Takemura -- Connecting tables with zero-one entries by a subset of a Markov basis; K. Khare and B. Rajaratnam -- Covariance trees and Wishart distributions on cones; P. Kidwell and G. Lebanon -- A kernel smoothing approach to censored preference data; M. S. Massa and S. L. Lauritzen -- Combining statistical models; S. Petrovi?, A. Rinaldo, and S. E. Fienberg -- Algebraic statistics for a directed random graph model with reciprocation; G. Pistone and M. P. Rogantin -- Regular fractions and indicator polynomials; M. A. G. Viana -- Dihedral Fourier analysis; T. von Rosen and D. Von Rosen -- On a class of singular nonsymmetric matrices with nonnegative integer spectra; A. S. Yasamin -- Some hypothesis tests for Wishart models on symmetric cones. (CONM/516). Bookseller Inventory # AAN9780821848913

Book Description: American Mathematical Society, United States, 2010. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 254 x 178 mm. Brand New Book. This volume is based on lectures presented at the AMS Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics and Probability--held March 27-29, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--and on contributed articles solicited for this volume. A decade after the publication of Contemporary Mathematics Vol. 287, the present volume demonstrates the consolidation of important areas, such as algebraic statistics, computational commutative algebra, and deeper aspects of graphical models. In statistics, this volume includes, among others, new results and applications in cubic regression models for mixture experiments, multidimensional Fourier regression experiments, polynomial characterizations of weakly invariant designs, toric and mixture models for the diagonal-effect in two-way contingency tables, topological methods for multivariate statistics, structural results for the Dirichlet distributions, inequalities for partial regression coefficients, graphical models for binary random variables, conditional independence and its relation to sub-determinants covariance matrices, connectivity of binary tables, kernel smoothing methods for partially ranked data, Fourier analysis over the dihedral groups, properties of square non-symmetric matrices, and Wishart distributions over symmetric cones. In probability, this volume includes new results related to discrete-time semi Markov processes, weak convergence of convolution products in semigroups, Markov bases for directed random graph models, functional analysis in Hardy spaces, and the Hewitt-Savage zero-one law. Table of Contents: S. A. Andersson and T. Klein -- Kiefer-complete classes of designs for cubic mixture models; V. S. Barbu and N. Limnios -- Some algebraic methods in semi-Markov chains; R. A. Bates, H. Maruri-Aguilar, E. Riccomagno, R. Schwabe, and H. P. Wynn -- Self-avoiding generating sequences for Fourier lattice designs; F. Bertrand -- Weakly invariant designs, rotatable designs and polynomial designs; C. Bocci, E. Carlini, and F. Rapallo -- Geometry of diagonal-effect models for contingency tables; P. Bubenik, G. Carlsson, P. T. Kim, and Z.-M. Luo -- Statistical topology via Morse theory persistence and nonparametric estimation; G. Budzban and G. Hognas -- Convolution products of probability measures on a compact semigroup with applications to random measures; S. Chakraborty and A. Mukherjea -- Completely simple semigroups of real $d times d$ matrices and recurrent random walks; W.-Y. Chang, R. D. Gupta, and D. S. P. Richards -- Structural properties of the generalized Dirichlet distributions; S. Chaudhuri and G. L. Tan -- On qualitative comparison of partial regression coefficients for Gaussian graphical Markov models; M. A. Cueto, J. Morton, and B. Sturmfels -- Geometry of the restricted Boltzmann machine; M. Drton and H. Xiao -- Smoothness of Gaussian conditional independence models; W. Ehm -- Projections on invariant subspaces; S. M. Evans -- A zero-one law for linear transformations of Levy noise; H. Hara and A. Takemura -- Connecting tables with zero-one entries by a subset of a Markov basis; K. Khare and B. Rajaratnam -- Covariance trees and Wishart distributions on cones; P. Kidwell and G. Lebanon -- A kernel smoothing approach to censored preference data; M. S. Massa and S. L. Lauritzen -- Combining statistical models; S. Petrovi?, A. Rinaldo, and S. E. Fienberg -- Algebraic statistics for a directed random graph model with reciprocation; G. Pistone and M. P. Rogantin -- Regular fractions and indicator polynomials; M. A. G. Viana -- Dihedral Fourier analysis; T. von Rosen and D. Von Rosen -- On a class of singular nonsymmetric matrices with nonnegative integer spectra; A. S. Yasamin -- Some hypothesis tests for Wishart models on symmetric cones. (CONM/516). Bookseller Inventory # AAN9780821848913