Author: Daniel A. Griffith
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: spatial, filtering, autocorrelation
Number of Pages: 247
Published: 2003-08-13
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3540009329
ISBN-13: 9783540009320

Exploiting the old maxim that ’a picture is worth a thousand words,’ scientific visualization may be defined as the transformation of numerical scientific data into informative graphical displays. It introduces a nonverbal model into subdisciplines that hitherto employed mostly or only mathematical or verbal-conceptual models. The focus of this monograph is on how scientific visualization can help revolutionize the manner in which the tendencies for (dis)similar numerical values to cluster together in location on a map are explored and analyzed, affording spatial data analyses that

Authors:Daniel A. Griffith, Larry J. Layne,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: spatial, data, thematic, sets, information, different, systems, compilation, statistical, analysis, casebook, analyses
Number of Pages: 524
Published: 1999-12-02
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0195109589
ISBN-13: 9780195109580

This volume compiles geostatistical and spatial autoregressive data analyses involving georeferenced socioeconomic, natural resources, agricultural, pollution, and epidemiological variables. Benchmark analyses are followed by analyses of readily available data sets, emphasizing parallels between geostatistical and spatial autoregressive findings. Both SAS and SPSS code are presented for implementation purposes. This informative casebook will serve geographers, regional scientists, applied spatial statisticians, and spatial scientists from across disciplines.

Authors:Clifford R. Goodwin, Daniel B. Griffith,
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: conflict, work, resolving, kit, survival, tools
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-03-20
List price: $34.40
ISBN-10: 0131183036
ISBN-13: 9780131183032

Provides a firm grounding in basic interpersonal communication and management skills—such as rapport building, empathetic listening, behavior modeling, reframing, problem solving and decision making—and contains unique chapters on practice and application. Tools for the Conflict Survival Kit provide strategies that can be used immediately in workplace situations. Case studies and role plays give readers practice communicating, negotiating, and problem-solving and an opportunity to refine and develop this important craft. Gives readers a thorough grounding in basic interpersonal communi

Authors:Daniel A. Griffith, C. Amrhein, Jean-Marie Huriót,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: advanced, paelinck, studies, theoretical, econometrics, applied, jean, honour, spatial, advances, modelling, methodology, essays, econometric
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1998-03-31
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 0792349156
ISBN-13: 9780792349150

This volume is in honour of the remarkable career of the Father of Spatial Econometrics, Professor Jean Paelinck, presently of the Tinbergen Institute, Rotterdam. Jean Paelinck, arguably, is the founder of modern spatial econometrics. The impact on the profession through his work in spatial econometrics, regional science, and more conventional economics can be measured in many ways: through the work of his students, his devotion to and activism in facilitating the diffusion of regional science to Poland, the formulation and development of his FLEUR model, his co-founding of the French-

Authors:Daniel Svyantek, Richard L Griffith, Mitchell H Pete
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Keywords: research, organizational, science, behavior, faking, examination, applicant, closer
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2006-05-03
List price: $73.99
ISBN-10: 1593115148
ISBN-13: 9781593115142

The faking of personality tests in a selection context has been perceived as somewhat of a nuisance variable, and largely ignored, or glossed over by the academic literature. Instead of examining the phenomenon many researchers have ignored its existence, or trivialized the impact of faking on personality measurement. The present volume is a much needed, timely corrective to this attitude. In a wide range of chapters representing different philosophical and empirical approaches, the assembled authors demonstrate the courage to tackle this important and difficult topic head-on, as it deserv

Authors:Joseph Mersand, Francis Griffith, Kathryn Griffith,
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: way, easy, barron, spelling
Number of Pages: 335
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0812091434
ISBN-13: 9780812091434

Discusses the importance of good spelling, explaining the general rules of English spelling, and examines some troublesome spelling problems.

Authors:Joseph Mersand, Francis Griffith, Kathryn Griffith,
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
Keywords: barron, way, easy, spelling
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0764134108
ISBN-13: 9780764134104

Even in today’s era of computer spell checking, it’s important for everybody to know how to spell words correctly. For those of us who speak and write in English--with its countless exceptions to spelling rules--that’s easier said than done. This book will help students, businesspeople, and everybody else master the art of spelling. The authors examine reasons why we misspell, then offer tips for improvement. Their methods include learning basic spelling rules, developing memory devices, and acquiring the habit of using a good dictionary. The authors explain homonyms and homo