books about: outliers

books about: outliers

books:

Outliers

The Impulse Factor: Why Some of Us Play It Safe and Others Risk It All

Nick Tasler

Fireside, 2008

Wow! A fascinating book
I read a piece in Marie Claire about this book and had to buy a copy. It's really great! In short, the premise of the book is to help you understand why some people tend to play it safe and others tend to risk it all, including: ~ Risk-taking is chemical. 25% of ...

The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book

Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves

Fireside, 2005

Shows you how to manage your emotions
This is a special book. In addition to illustrating how emotional intelligence works and why it is important, it showed me how I can identify my emotions accurately in the moment and respond to them more effectively. The techniques are quite easy to apply, and I am ...

Outliers in Statistical Data (Wiley Series in Probability & Statistics)

Vic Barnett, Toby Lewis

Wiley, 1994

thorough treatment of the subject of outliers
The first edition of this book in 1978 brought the first comprehensive text on outlier methods in statistical analysis. Outliers present important practical problems that have been studied for centuries. The twentieth century brought appropriate formal statistical ...

Robust Regression and Outlier Detection (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

Peter J. Rousseeuw, Annick M. Leroy

Wiley-Interscience, 2003

wonderful treatment of outlier issues in regression
These authors provide an excellent guide to the available theory of robust regression. Graphical methods are well used to bring home the points. I have always liked looking at outliers and robustness from an influence function viewpoint and the authors do an ...

Health Care Systems of the Developed World: How the United States' System Remains an Outlier
Duane A. Matcha

Praeger Publishers, 2003

Presenting a brief analysis of health care systems in industrialized nations, the author includes the history, current realities, financing and delivery of services, as well as the impact of the systems on the core sociological variables--age, sex, social class, and race and ethnicity. The systems spotlighted are those in the United States, ...

Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to ...

Unit roots and infrequent large shocks: new international evidence on output [An article from: Journal of ...
O. Darne, C. Diebolt

Elsevier, 2004

This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Monetary Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: The nature and magnitude of the economic shocks that have affected ...

The Outliers

Terry Hickman

Lulu.com, 2006

Great stories
Terry Hickman is one of those writers who can take you to the edge of astonishment time and time again and keep you coming back for more. She has an astounding ability to conceptualize, plot, develop and write mesmerizing stories that will appeal to anyone of any age. ...