Belief and cult : rethinking Roman religion /

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Author / Creator:Mackey, Jacob Louis, 1971- author.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Description:1 online resource ( xxi, 468 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12778033
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ISBN:0691233144
9780691233147
9780691165080
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 15, 2022).
Other form:Print version: Mackey, Jacob Louis, 1971- Belief and cult Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022] 9780691165080
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Statistics in the modern day
  • Part I. Computing
  • Chapter 2. C
  • 2.1. Lines
  • 2.2. Variables and their declarations
  • 2.3. Functions
  • 2.4. The debugger
  • 2.5. Compiling and running
  • 2.6. Pointers
  • 2.7. Arrays and other pointer tricks
  • 2.8. Strings
  • 2.9. Errors
  • Chapter 3. Databases
  • 3.1. Basic queries
  • 3.2. Doing more with queries
  • 3.3. Joins and subqueries
  • 3.4. On database design
  • 3.5. Folding queries into C code
  • 3.6. Maddening details
  • 3.7. Some examples
  • Chapter 4. Matrices and models
  • 4.1. The GSL's matrices and vectors
  • 4.2. apop_data
  • 4.3. Shunting data
  • 4.4. Linear algebra
  • 4.5. Numbers
  • 4.6. gsl_matrix and gsl_vector internals
  • 4.7. Models
  • Chapter 5. Graphics
  • 5.1. Plot
  • 5.2. Some common settings
  • 5.3. From arrays to plots
  • 5.4. A sampling of special plots
  • 5.5. Animation
  • 5.6. On producing good plots
  • 5.7. Graphs-nodes and flowcharts
  • 5.8. Printing and LATEX
  • Chapter 6. More coding tools
  • 6.1. Function pointers
  • 6.2. Data structures
  • 6.3. Parameters
  • 6.4. Syntactic sugar
  • 6.5. More tools
  • Part II. Statistics
  • Chapter 7. Distributions for description
  • 7.1. Moments
  • 7.2. Sample distributions
  • 7.3. Using the sample distributions
  • 7.4. Non-parametric description
  • Chapter 8. Linear projections
  • 8.1. Principal component analysis
  • 8.2. OLS and friends
  • 8.3. Discrete variables
  • 8.4. Multilevel modeling
  • Chapter 9. Hypothesis testing with the CLT
  • 9.1. The Central Limit Theorem
  • 9.2. Meet the Gaussian family
  • 9.3. Testing a hypothesis
  • 9.4. ANOVA
  • 9.5. Regression
  • 9.6. Goodness of fit
  • Chapter 10. Maximum likelihood estimation
  • 10.1. Log likelihood and friends
  • 10.2. Description: Maximum likelihood estimators
  • 10.3. Missing data
  • 10.4. Testing with likelihoods
  • Chapter 11. Monte Carlo
  • 11.1. Random number generation
  • 11.2. Description: Finding statistics for a distribution
  • 11.3. Inference: Finding statistics for a parameter
  • 11.4. Drawing a distribution
  • 11.5. Non-parametric testing
  • Appendix A. Environments and makefiles
  • A.1. Environment variables
  • A.2. Paths
  • A.3. Make
  • Appendix B. Text processing
  • B.1. Shell scripts
  • B.2. Some tools for scripting
  • B.3. Regular expressions
  • B.4. Adding and deleting
  • B.5. More examples
  • Appendix C. Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index