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  • Creepiosity

    A Hilarious Guide to the Unintentionally Creepy

    by David Bickel ...
    In his hilarious yet disturbing (because it's so true) book Creepiosity: A Hilarious Guide to the Unintentionally Creepy, comedy writer David Bickel presents readers with 100 of the most unsettling everyday things, such as grown men in Boy Scout uniforms, old ladies with really long hair, fish with people faces, lifelike baby dolls, and much more.Bickel infuses each subject with comedic insight ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Genomics Data Analysis

    False Discovery Rates and Empirical Bayes Methods

    by David R. Bickel ...
    Statisticians have met the need to test hundreds or thousands of genomics hypotheses simultaneously with novel empirical Bayes methods that combine advantages of traditional Bayesian and frequentist statistics. Techniques for estimating the local false discovery rate assign probabilities of differential gene expression, genetic association, etc. without requiring subjective prior distributions. ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Phylogenetic Trees and Molecular Evolution

    A Hands-on Introduction with Uncertainty Quantification Corrected

    by David R. Bickel ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book serves as a brief introduction to phylogenetic trees and molecular evolution for biologists and biology students. It does so by presenting the main concepts in a variety of ways: first visually, then in a history, next in a dice game, and finally in simple equations.The content is primarily designed to introduce upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of biology to phylogenetic ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • Quantifying Life

    A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology

    by Dmitry A. Kondrashov ...
    Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter of all sizes, from subatomic particles to galaxies. In the past three decades, as advances in molecular biology have produced an avalanche of data, computational and mathematical techniques have also become necessary tools in the arsenal of biologists. But while quantitative approaches are now ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Computer Age Statistical Inference

    Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science

    by Bradley Efron, Trevor Hastie ...
    Series Book 5 - Institute of Mathematical Statistics Monographs
    The twenty-first century has seen a breathtaking expansion of statistical methodology, both in scope and in influence. 'Big data', 'data science', and 'machine learning' have become familiar terms in the news, as statistical methods are brought to bear upon the enormous data sets of modern science and commerce. How did we get here? And where are we going? This book takes us on an exhilarating ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Signature in the Cell

    DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design

    by Stephen C. Meyer ...
    “Signature in the Cell is a defining work in the discussion of life’s origins and the question of whether life is a product of unthinking matter or of an intelligent mind. For those who disagree with ID, the powerful case Meyer presents cannot be ignored in any honest debate. For those who may be sympathetic to ID, on the fence, or merely curious, this book is an engaging, eye-opening, and often ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Hidden Markov Models for Time Series

    An Introduction Using R, Second Edition

    by Walter Zucchini, Iain L. MacDonald, Roland Langrock ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability
    Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R, Second Edition illustrates the great flexibility of hidden Markov models (HMMs) as general-purpose models for time series data. The book provides a broad understanding of the models and their uses.After presenting the basic model formulation, the book covers estimation, forecasting, decoding, prediction, model selection, and Bayesian ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Humanity in a Creative Universe

    by Stuart A. Kauffman ...
    In the hard sciences, which can often feel out of grasp for many lay readers, there are "great thinkers" who go far beyond the equations, formulas, and research. Minds such as Stephen Hawking philosophize about the functions and nature of the universe, the implications of our existence, and other impossibly fascinating, yet difficult questions. Stuart A. Kauffman is one of those great thinkers. He ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Understanding Biostatistics

    by Anders Källén ...
    Series Book 100 - Statistics in Practice
    Understanding Biostatistics looks at the fundamentals of biostatistics, using elementary statistics to explore the nature of statistical tests.This book is intended to complement first-year statistics and biostatistics textbooks. The main focus here is on ideas, rather than on methodological details. Basic concepts are illustrated with representations from history, followed by technical ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

  • Categorical Data Analysis by Example

    by Graham J. G. Upton ...
    Introduces the key concepts in the analysis of categoricaldata with illustrative examples and accompanying R codeThis book is aimed at all those who wish to discover how to analyze categorical data without getting immersed in complicated mathematics and without needing to wade through a large amount of prose. It is aimed at researchers with their own data ready to be analyzed and at students who ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling in Ecology and Evolution

    by Sarah P. Otto, Troy Day ...
    Thirty years ago, biologists could get by with a rudimentary grasp of mathematics and modeling. Not so today. In seeking to answer fundamental questions about how biological systems function and change over time, the modern biologist is as likely to rely on sophisticated mathematical and computer-based models as traditional fieldwork. In this book, Sarah Otto and Troy Day provide biology students ... Read more

    $104.49 CAD

  • Molecular Evolution

    A Statistical Approach

    by Ziheng Yang ...
    Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, improved computer hardware and software, and the development of sophisticated analytical methods. The flood of genomic data has generated an acute need for powerful statistical methods and efficient computational algorithms to enable their ... Read more

    $80.99 CAD