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Performing Financial Studies: A Methodological Cookbook
Michael Seiler Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0130479810 |
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Ideal for both reference and self-study, this unique volume goes beyond simply explaining how statistical procedures should be done, to showing in "no-detail-left-out" fashion what should be done at each stepmuch like following a recipe in a cookbook. Additionally, raw financial data sets are used in the examples so each method is related directly to finance and to the specific problems financial data presents. Statistical procedures related exclusively to finance (and often only found tersely described in academic journals) are also covered. Features screen captures in various computer programs (Excel, SPSS, or EViews). Understanding Your Data. Preparing Your Data for Analysis. Correlation. Autocorrelation. Partial Autocorrelation. Autocorrelation for Nonparametric Data (Wald-Wolfowitz Runs Test). T-test. ANOVA. Regression. Calculating Beta. Measuring Predictive Ability. Event Studies. Bootstrapping. AVRM (Added Variable Regression Model). Cointegration. ARIMA Models. Unit Root Test. Granger Causality. ARCH/GARCH. Programming the Black-Scholes Model. Programming the Binomial Option Pricing Model. Sections within the Financial Study. Bringing Output into Word. For Financial Research Analysts, Financial Consultants, Mutual Fund Managers, Financial Managers, etc.Customer Reviews:
Practical roadmap to analytical success.......2004-09-14
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Ice: Revitalize Your Company With Internal Consulting Expertise
Anthony Guido , Kirk Atkinson , and Mike Larkin Manufacturer: Stoddart ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0773760261 |
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B.......2001-01-27
As I read it, I kept waiting for some big insight. By the time I finished it (an hour or so later) I felt ripped off. I couldn't believe that a book with so little to say could actually get published. The situations are facile, the solutions are incredibly obvious, the characters are lazily drawn, and the details associated with solicting employee imput (the main part of the book) are glossed over.
The whole book is manipulative; a shallow attempt to sell multiple copies and training services.
ICE gains momentum in the marketplace.......2001-01-07
What's even more inspiring is that the people that are applying ICE are finding the process is as easy to use as the book is to read.
I can honestly say that every single person I've encountered that has read ICE has loved it. I hope you do to.
The Next HOT Training Text!.......2000-12-31
ICE is COOL.......2000-06-03
I loved ICE!
Bringing business back to the real fundamentals........1999-05-15
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Agricultural Development: An International Perspective (Johns Hopkins Studies in Development)
Yujiro Hayami , and Vernon W. Ruttan Manufacturer: RFF Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0801823765 |
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Exporter of Agri.......2000-01-03
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The Agricultural Development of Japan: A Century's Perspective
Manufacturer: University of Tokyo Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0860084760 |
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Agriculture and World Trade Liberalisation: Socio-environmental Perspectives on the Common Agricultural Policy
Manufacturer: CABI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0851992978 |
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Written by leading authorities from Europe and the U.S., this volume discusses current and future issues surrounding agriculture and its relationship to trade, sustainability, and the environment. The chapters are derived from a 1996 conference entitled "European Agriculture at the Crossroads: Competition and Sustainability" and have been revised to reflect the European Commission's Agenda 2000. The is an important resource for researchers and policy makers in agricultural economics, rural sociology, then environment, and European studies.
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Industrialization Based on Agricultural Development: African Development Perspectives Yearbook (Studien Zur Volkswirtschaft Des Vorderen Orients)
Tesfaye Tafesse Manufacturer: Lit Verlag ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 3894732342 |
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Social Policy in an Agricultural Economy (Perspectives on African Book Development)
Allast Mwanza Manufacturer: Sappho ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1779050860 |
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Sustainability, Growth, and Poverty Alleviation: A Policy and Agroecological Perspective (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Manufacturer: International Food Policy Research Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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Developing countries are under enormous pressure to produce more food for their growing populations, conserve natural resources, and reduce poverty. In the short term, however, these objectives may compete with one another.
This book focuses in particular on the interactions between agricultural growth and environment and between environment and poverty. The chapters analyze and illustrate these interactions with case study evidence from the developing world in general and from specific agroclimatic zones in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The contributors also discuss the implications of these links for development policies, agricultural technologies, and social and economic institutions. With a clearer picture of how these goals interact, policymakers and researchers can design strategies for working more effectively to meet them.
Contributors: Akinwumi A. Adesina, Elizabeth Bailey, Edward B. Barbier, Joachim von Braun, Rafael Celis, Kanchan Chopra, D. Layne Coppock, Aércio S. Cunha, Hartwig de Haen, Thomas E. Downing, Amare Getahun, Narpat S. Jodha, John M. Kerr, Michael Lipton, Peter J. Matlon, Peter Oram, Martin L. Parry, Prabhu L. Pingali, Rudolph A. Polson, C. H. Hanumantha Rao, Thomas Reardon, Sergio Ruano, Vernon W. Ruttan, Donald R. Sawyer, P. V. Shenoi, Ammar Siamwalla, Dunstan S. C. Spencer, Richard N. Tutwiler, Mario A. Vedova, Stephen A. Vosti, Patrick Webb, Meri L. Whitaker
Published for the International Food Policy Reaserch Institute
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Women Plantation Workers: International Experiences (Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women)
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1859739776 |
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Gliomas and farm pesticide exposure in women: the Upper Midwest Health Study.(Research: Article) : An article from: Environmental Health Perspectives
Tania Carreon , Mary Ann Butler , Avima M. Ruder , Martha A. Waters , Karen E. Davis-King , Geoffrey M. Calvert , Paul A. Schulte , Barbara Connally , Elizabeth M. Ward , Wayne T. Sanderson , Ellen F. Heineman , Jack S. Mandel , Roscoe F. Morton , Douglas J. Reding , and Kenneth D. Rosenman Manufacturer: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000ALSJ4S Release Date: 2005-07-25 |
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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 7253 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Agricultural development: Comparing perspectives of the World Bank and the participating governments
Samar Ranjan Sen Manufacturer: s.n ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007BTVAW |
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Agricultural industrialization and sustainable development: A global perspective (International working paper series)
C. G Davis Manufacturer: Food and Resource Economics Dept., Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006PD3C6 |
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The Language of Cells: Life as Seen Under the Microscope
Spencer Nadler Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0375504168 Release Date: 2001-08-28 |
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With this beautiful book, Spencer Nadler takes us into the remarkable world of cells–and into the lives of people whose behavior is affected by the cells seen under his microscope. After twenty-five years as a surgical pathologist, Nadler began to miss interacting with the people whose cells he studied. And so, he came out from behind his microscope and as a writer began to focus on people as well as on their cells, examining in this unusual book how a person’s life and spirit–and cells–coexist.Customer Reviews:
The Language of Surprise.......2003-12-03
Praise for an observant, compassionate doctor.......2002-05-18
Other reviewers have outlined the stories of this book. It is immediate recognized that it is a different book...it's table of content is not a one-page outline of the chapter titles. Rather each chapter is outline by a large photograph of the cell types dealt with in that chapter. The 'name' of the chapter is in small typeface below or adjacent to the electron photograph. This warns the reader that whatever they had expected from this book, is liable to be different from what they get. Thankfully, this is so...
Nadler is a pathologist, a man who devotes his life to diagnosing the secrets of the individual units of our bodies. Pathologists are decoders basically. They read and tell other surgeons and doctors what they have biopsied or what they have seen. Pathologists rarely have intimate contact with the people whose cells they have examined. I worked in two neuropathology labs for almost six years. It is fascinating work, but other than your fellow lab workers, there is no human contact.
Somehow, from reading Dr. Nadler's book, I will guarantee that this physician has made it a point throughout his life and career to purposely remain involve with individuals. Unlike some doctors who I know have much more contact with patients, this doctor refuses to consider the cells alone, without considering the person. Perhaps because he is not involved in the conveyor belt of modern medicine, he has not lost that compassion or steeled himself against 'feeling' too much. For that alone, he deserves accolades.
His language, his metaphors, the observations he makes are far beyond the abilities of most doctors, indeed beyond the abilities of most people period. Like Oliver Sacks, he brings attention to a disease through the person who is affected by that disease. In doing so, readers become aware of the courage these individuals choose to face their illness with. So many times in labs and hospitals, we forget that what we see under the microscope was once deeply embedded in an individual. Nadler reminds us exquisitely of that, and in his writing, he brings an understanding of not just the disease, but of those who must deal with these particular disease. The story told, the picture drawn...may start with the cell that he originally focused on, but Nadler quickly changes the focus to the person.
An outstanding book by an outstanding person...
Karen Sadler,
Science Education,
University of Pittsburgh
Drama under the microscope.......2001-12-13
Exquisitely rendered tales of human disease.......2001-11-29
So there's an irony in the title and a kind of strange misdirection: Dr. Nadler's concentration is NOT on cellular life, but instead on the psychological, existential and spiritual aspects of people whose cells have gone bad.
He begins with the story of a 35-year-old woman who has breast cancer. She wants to see the cancerous cells in the microscope. Nadler, whose daily work is performing biopsies, especially surgical biopsies made on the fly as the patient is etherized upon a table, obliges, and thereby begins a relationship with her and her illness that goes well beyond what can be experienced through the lenses of his "research-quality German microscope made by Zeiss." She sees landscapes and metaphors in the dead and dying cells, and Nadler is once again reminded of the human experience of disease.
Next is the chapter entitled simply "Fat" about a woman suffering from morbid obesity. She undergoes the Rouxen-Y gastric bypass, a gastrointestinal reconstruction surgery that miniaturizing her stomach from a capacity of 1,700 milliliters to 35 milliliters. (I have a question not answered in the text: why did her stomach have to be SO small? Couldn't they have left her with say, two or three hundred milliliters?) The procedure works and she goes from over 360 pounds to 180, but she cannot eat more than a few ounces of food at any one setting and she must--as Nadler so beautifully phrases it on page 39-swallow only "bonsaied boluses" and take "great care to chew them to a flow."
"Fat" is quite frankly one of the best medical essays I have ever read. But I am not alone in admiring the artistry of Nadler's carefully constructed prose. Two of the essays in this book, "Brain Cell Memories" and "An Old Soldier," the first about brain tumors, and the second about a 75-year-old man who has been a paraplegic for 55 years, are included in, respectively, The Best American Essays, 2001 and The Best American Essays, 1999. I was particularly impressed with "An Old Soldier," in which Nadler's clear, stark prose reveals the courage, strength and sheer cussed determination it takes for WWII vet Sam Patterson to live when "His lower trunk and limbs, his bowels, bladder, and genitals, are permanently incommunicado, shutting him off from the rest of his body like a demented mind." (p. 150)
The other chapters are "Heart Rhythms," which is essentially a heroic portrait of conductor Mehli Mehta; "Early Alzheimer's: A View from Within" which features AD-sufferer Morris Friedell who "can crystalize the life that remains and devise ways to enhance it" (for example, he takes notes and crosses off the tasks and experiences as they are lived); and "The Burden of Sickle Cells" about a boy that Nadler befriends who has the sickle cell disease.
The last chapter in the book is an appreciation of hospice work and grief counseling with a focus on Nadler's friend, Brad Deford, a chaplain to the dying. Nadler follows him on his rounds and experiences first hand how comforting it can be to have someone help with the emotional and spiritual preparations. Nadler refers to one old couple, each facing eminent death, as having become, "in their married years together...two nuclei in a single cell." His final words before the Epilogue are: "How awesome is this cellular ride, so steeped in mysterious efficiency. But it is the human dying, so urgent and inevitable, that is graven unto me."
As can be seen, Nadler is a very fine prose stylist, and his book is to be compared favorably with the best works written by practicing doctors from what I might call "the medical tale genre." Some recent examples include Jerome Groopman's Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine (2000) and of course the works of Oliver Sacks, e.g., An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and other clinical tales (1987).
Life and Death Matters.......2001-11-28
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The Language of Cells: Life as seen under the microscope
spencer Nader Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KDWT5Q |
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One physicians view on various medical life issues from a cellular level.
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The Language of Cells: Life As Seen Under the Microscope
Spencer Nadler Manufacturer: Random House ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OFK9Q6 |
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