in general, an introductory textbook on probability is Richard Isaac’s The Pleasures of Probability.9

They speculated that a high level of linguistic ability in early life may act as a buffer to cognitive decline by facilitating mnemonic processes for encoding, organizing, and retrieving information.

For example, at Cisco Systems, a forecasting project addressed the possibility that substantially more accurate forecasts were possible through statistical methods

the prior reports showing upticks and downticks didn’t use a methodology that was linked to her business question;

See table 5-1 for a description of different pattern types and the open-source and commercial software that finds them.

ask them what the assumptions are behind their models, and under what circumstances they would be violated. You would be surprised how often they can’t give me a clear answer.” Summers was reportedly paid $5 million for playing this role, so it must have been perceived as valuable.

Topics include data mining, text mining, forecasting, optimization, databases, data visualization, data privacy and security, financial analytics, and customer analytics.

At Expedia again, for example, one Eureka story involved eliminating change/cancel fees from online hotel, cruise, and car rental reservations.

Consequently, we recommend Heinz Kohler’s Statistics for Business and Economics as your main text.17 As one reviewer commented on Amazon.com: Best Stats Learning Book Ever.