Author: Professor Gary Koo
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: data, financial, analysis
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2006-01-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0470013214
ISBN-13: 9780470013212

Analysis of Financial Data teaches the basic methods and techniques of data analysis to finance students, by showing them how to apply such techniques in the context of real-world empirical problems. Adopting a largely non-mathematical approach Analysis of Financial Data relies more on verbal intuition and graphical methods for understanding. Key features include: Coverage of many of the major tools used by the financial economist e.g. correlation, regression, time series analysis and methods for analyzing financial volatility. Extensive use of real data examples, which involves readers in h

Author: Professor Gary Koo
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: econometrics, bayesian
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2003-07-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0470845678
ISBN-13: 9780470845677

Bayesian Econometrics introduces the reader to the use of Bayesian methods in the field of econometrics at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level. The book is self-contained and does not require previous training in econometrics. The focus is on models used by applied economists and the computational techniques necessary to implement Bayesian methods when doing empirical work. It includes numerous numerical examples and topics covered in the book include: the regression model (and variants applicable for use with panel data time series models models for qualitative or censored data nonpa

Author: Professor Gary Minda
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keywords: legal, mind, shape, ideology, america, imagination, boycott
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-05-31
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0809321742
ISBN-13: 9780809321742

Gary Minda’s critical study of boycotts in American law and culture focuses on how the word boycott has developed as a metaphoric, rather than as a rational or logical, form of reasoning. Minda first discusses the history, interpretation, and understanding of boycotts. He then turns to the role of metaphor in the interpretation of boycotts and of boycott law. Drawing on cognitive psychology and linguistic theory, Minda argues that the metaphors judges choose in describing boycotts determine how they view boycotts. One of Minda’s major contributions is to show how cognitive theory a

Author: Professor Gary Laderman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: death, attitudes, american, remains, sacred
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1999-01-11
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0300078684
ISBN-13: 9780300078688

This work explores the changing attitudes toward death and the dead in northern Protestant communities during the 19th century. It offers insights into the construction of an "American way of death", illuminating the central role of the Civil War and tracing the birth of the funeral industry.

Authors:James F. Keane, Adjunct Professor Gary Koch,
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pre
Keywords: handbook, government, local, illinois
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1990-04-17
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0809314452
ISBN-13: 9780809314454

Over 6,500 local governments — ranging from counties and municipalities to obscure mosquito abatement districts — and 100,000 government officials make Illinois government the most complex of any state in the Union. James F. Keane and Gary Koch have compiled this handbook, written by 19 experts in the field, to help take the mystery out of Illinois local government. Using a systematic evaluation of the different types of government at the municipal, township, and county levels, the contributors explain how these units operate, what problems they face, and how they interact with each

Author: Professor Robert V. Hine Professor John Mack Fara
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: history, series, western, lamar, american, short, frontiers, west
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0300117108
ISBN-13: 9780300117103

Published in 2000 to critical acclaim, The American West: A New Interpretive History quickly became the standard in college history courses. Now Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher offer a concise edition of their classic, freshly updated. Lauded for their lively and elegant writing, the authors provide a grand survey of the colorful history of the American West, from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the beginning of the twenty-first century.Frontiers introduces the diverse peoples and cultures of the American West and explores how men and women of different ethni

Author: Professor Clive DimmockProfessor Allan David Walk
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: diversity, culture, leadership, educational
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-07-12
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 076197170X
ISBN-13: 9780761971702

`Clive Dimmock and Allan Walker’s books is a valuable addition to the overcrowded literature on leadership. This is a useful and important book because citizenship, globalization and the tensions with nationality should be the concern of all who lead any school; even monofaith, monoethic and monolingual schools’ - Tim Brighouse, TES Friday ’The authors offer a rigorous and systematic analysis based on careful definition, illustration and discussion which demonstrates the importance of understanding culture, leadership and their interaction in different contexts: in doing so t