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This book offers an overview of the central ideas in calculus and gives examples of how calculus is used to translate many real-world phenomena into mathematical functions. Beginning with an explanation of the two major parts of calculus - differentiation and integration - Gudmund R Iversen illustrates how calculus is used in statistics: to distinguish between the mean and the median; to derive the least squares formulas for regression co-efficients; to find values of parameters from theoretical distributions; and to find a statistical p-value when using one of the continuous test variables such as the t-variable.

This book shows teachers of English Language Learners how to use the tools of Web 2.0 to motivate their students and increase student learning.

This book provides ready-to-use, brain-compatible lessons for Key Stage 1 mathematics teaching.

This second edition offers teachers fresh instructional strategies that work for engaging erratic, distracted, and often unpredictable teenagers.

How to collect, describe, compare and analyze data.

Improve achievement in diverse classrooms with a six-part framework to help learners become motivated, create connections from prior knowledge, and acquire procedural and declarative knowledge.

Drawing on the expertise of authors from 21 countries to tell the story of domestic violence in their country, this book lends academic, professional, and victims' expertise to determine these strengths and analyze how they can translate into greater safety for victims and increased accountability for perpetrators, including improved policy formation.

Covers the basic principles of when and how to use focus groups, the applicability of focus group interviews to survey research and other methods, general issues in the use of focus groups, the specific problems of focus groups with different populations or settings and an agenda for future development of the method.

Strengthen gifted girls' potential by exploring characteristics of girls' giftedness; factors affecting development; issues of resilience, self-efficacy, and personal ethics; and the importance of supportive adults.

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Presents a fresh vision of communication that offers little-known and amazingly effective techniques for the novice speaker and stage-savvy pro. This title provides practical, research-based tools that apply to various professional communication, speaking at small staff meetings, and delivering a keynote address to a ballroom full of people.

Combines time series and cross-sectional data to provide the researcher with an efficient method of analysis and improved estimates of the population being studied. With more relevant data available this analysis technique allows the sample size to be increased, which ultimately yields a more effective study.

Aims to guide researchers in not only how to think in terms of the feminist perspective, but also how to translate their research into feminist practice and analysis. This book offers ten angles for feminist analysis, or ten things to keep in mind when doing fieldwork and developing an analysis.

Promotes the overarching business philosophy of customer/market focus, by emphasizing the need for market research to provide the insights required for making decisions. This book identifies such troubling trends as biased sample answers on long questionnaires, and "professionals" whose job is to skew focus group responses.

Provides practical guidelines on how companies can manage supply chains, addressing the role of all the traditional business functions in supply chain management and suggest how the adoption of a supply chain management approach can affect business strategy and corporate performance.

This popular and critically acclaimed Handbook is now available in paperback.

Written using simple language, this book guides students through the statistics actually used in most empirical research in communication and the social sciences. It is a work on communication that includes details on statistical analysis of data with a full set of data analysis instructions based on SPSS 12 and Excel.

Provides educators with a guide to some of the common mental health issues and symptomatology that they are likely to confront in their daily work with students. It assists educators in recognizing symptoms of crisis and provides them tools that helps them take the proper steps toward addressing the mental health issues of their students.

Understanding Human Rights: An Exercise Book provides a concise, hands-on roadmap for learning about human rights within a social work context. By illustrating the importance of human rights to the social work profession with understandable explanations and exercises, author Elisabeth Reichert highlights why social workers need to embrace the concept of human rights.

Most books on measurement present a statistical orientation or an orientation toward measurement theory. Although these approaches are valuable, Measurement Error and Research Design is motivated by the lack of literature that enhances understanding of measurement error, its sources, and its effects on responses.

Drawing together the broad range of theoretical issues posed in the new study of masculinity, contributors from diverse backgrounds address in this volume the different disciplinary roots of theories of masculinity - sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality studies. Subsequent chapters theoretically model many issues central to the study of men - power, ethnicity, feminism, homophobia - or develop theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men including the military and the men's movement.

Why do men batter their wives? How do women define their experiences of violence? Is wife abuse related to child abuse? How do medical authorities react to wife abuse? This volume brings together well-known academics, activists and clinicians who approach these questions from a distinctly feminist perspective.

Formerly a SkyLight PublicationLearn how to tap into practical strategies and techniques for developing and nurturing the full spectrum of intelligences identified by researcher Howard Gardner.

This book introduces readers to the basic models of neural networks and compares and contrasts these models using other statistical models. Through the use of examples that can be computed by hand or with a simple calculator, the authors describe and explain the various models.

Mentzer and Moon apply their 25 years of sales forecasting management research to their techniques for sales forecasting. They cover managing the process, performance measurement, regression analysis, qualitative sales forecasting, and forecasting systems. The second edition has been reorganized and includes new insights on qualitative forecasting,