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Author: William PoundstoneNow Poundstone for the first time makes these techniques fun, easy, and profitable for everyone, in the everyday situations that matter.
Author: Susan Elizabeth HoughThe Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction Susan Elizabeth Hough. Predicting. the. Unpredictable. “There's no such thing as earthquake weather,” he said. “Eeyore was just being gloomy again.” “Oh, bother!” said Pooh, who had missed ...
Author: Johanna RothmanJohanna Rothman. PREDICTING UNPREDICTABLE PRAGMATIc APPROACHEs To Estimating PROJECT SchEDULE OR Cost ALTHCH or *MAWA of IT |A OTH NZ. A Predicting the Unpredictable Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or. Front Cover.
Author: William PoundstoneIt seems such a simple thing to predict the random walks that determine our fates. It's not, and one reason is that our intuitions about close-to-random sequences often fail us. Misprediction can be the stuff of tragedy.
Author: Terence C. MillsSuch detection has become increasingly important given the upsurge in interest in chaotic dynamics * : models which generate observations that look completely unpredictable when subjected to standard statistical tests but which are ...
Author: Susan Elizabeth HoughPredicting the Unpredictable explains why, exploring the fact and fiction behind the science—and pseudoscience—of earthquake prediction.
Author: James Owen Weatherall"He takes us on a lively journey from fin-de-siècle Paris to Rat Pack-era Las Vegas, from wartime government labs to Yippie communes, showing how some of the finest scientific minds of the last century came to construct the sophisticated ...
Author: Ben RamalingamOrganization and Complexity (Oxford: OUP), p. 15 Personal communication (2012) Bonabeau, E. (2002), 'Predicting the Unpredictable'. Harvard Business Review, March, <http://www.hbr.org/2002/03/predicting-the-unpredictable/ar/4> (accessed ...
Author: James Owen WeatherallA Harvard scholar argues that mathematical models can provide solutions to current economic challenges, explaining that the economic meltdown of 2008 was based on a misunderstanding of scientific models rather than on the models themselves.
Author: S. L. ZabellPredicting the Unpredictable Abstract . A major difficulty for currently existing theories of inductive inference involves the question of what to do when novel , unknown , or previously unsuspected phenomena occur .