Statistical Intervals: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers. Second Edition. Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. By William Q. Meeker, Gerald J. Hahn, and Luis A. Escobar. Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley. $110.00. xxxv + 592 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-471-68717-7 (hc); 978-1-118-59516-9 (eb). 2017.

True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, F. Manjoo. John Wiley, New Jersey (2008), ISBN: 978-0-470-05010-1

Why has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they’ve been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras, does fact-free spin and propaganda seem to work so well? True Enough explores leading controversies of national politics, foreign affairs, sci...

What Is Sociolinguistics?, G. Van Herk (2012), Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 978-1-405-19318-4

978 - 0 - 521 - 88201 - 9 - The Solar Corona , Second Edition

The corona is a high-temperature portion of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, beginning slightly above the visible surface and extending hundreds of thousands of kilometers, or further, into interplanetary space. A precise definition of the term “corona” is to some extent dependent on one’s theoretical bias: if the solar atmosphere is viewed as spherically symmetric and homogeneous (“plane-parallel”)...

978 - 1 - 107 - 03003 - 9 - Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis for Epidemiology : A Practical Guide : Second Edition

Longitudinal studies are defined as studies in which the outcome variable is repeatedly measured; i.e. the outcome variable is measured in the same subject on several occasions. In longitudinal studies the observations of one subject over time are not independent of each other, and therefore it is necessary to apply special statistical techniques, which take into account the fact that the repea...

what is sociolinguistics?, g. van herk (2012), wiley-blackwell, isbn 978-1-405-19318-4