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Difference Equations, Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications: ICDEA 23, Timisoara, Romania, July 24-28, 2017: by edited by Saber Elaydi, Christian Pötzsche, and Adina Luminita Sasu, (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, ISBN 978-3-030-20015-2 ISBN 978-3-030-20016-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20016-9, 382 pages), 1st ed. 2019 Edition Difference Equations, Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications: ICDEA 23, Timisoara, Romania, July 24-28, 2017, by edited by Saber Elaydi, Christian Pötzsche, and Adina Luminita Sasu, (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, ISBN 978-3-030-20015-2 ISBN 978-3-030-20016-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20016-9, 382 pages), 1st ed. 2019 Edition The book I Difference Equations, Discrete Dynamical Systems and Applications i , edited by Saber Elaydi, Christian Pötzsche and Adina Luminita Sasu, represents selected contributions from the 23rd International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications (ICDEA 2017), which was held at West University of Timisoara, Romania, July 24-28, 2017. These papers provide various aspects in different spaces such as Banach Space, Hilbert Space, or Euclidean Space, to analyze the dynamical properties of difference equations, including the delayed difference equations, nonautonomous difference equations, cubic difference equations and so on. [Extracted from the article]

According to the author, this article grows out of a strong conviction on three points: first, statistics is fundamentally and primarily concerned with analyzing real data, second, data analysis, including inference, is both intellectually challenging and intrinsically interesting, and third, until recently, most authors of introductory statistics textbooks have managed to do a superb job of concealing from their readers the truth of the first two points. Fortunately, the last decade has seen the arrival of a number of innovative introductory textbooks, so the author now find it much more reasonable than in the past to apply high standards in judging an elementary book, according to him. In preparing this article, the author had tried to present these standards systematically; he uses them as an organizing frame for comparing 11 new books with 5 favorites from the past 10 years, according to him. Taken together these textbooks offer the instructor choices as to (a) technical level and quality of exposition, (b) topics covered, and (c) quality of the exercises.

Reviews the video `Describing Distributions: Numerical Description of Distributions,' which presents components of statistical analysis.

Presents a list of books for review in the 2001 issue of the journal "Environmental & Ecological Statistics."

The article reviews the book "Conquering Statistics: Numbers Without the Crunch," by Jefferson Hane Weaver.

The article reviews the book "Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970."

Reviews the videotape `Why Use Statistics?'

Reviews the book "An Introduction to Mathematical Risk Theory," by Hans U. Gerber.

Reviews the book "Mathematical Statistics," 2nd ed., by John E. Freund.

Reviews the book "Introduction to Statistics: A Fresh Approach," by G.E. Noether.

Introduces several books that are related to statistics. `The Challenge of Statistical Computation,' by George E. P. Box; `The Description of Statistical Data Structures for Statistical Computing,' by John A. Nelder; `A Statistical Data Language,' by John M. Chambers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Elementary Statistics," by G. Hadley.

Reviews the book "Introduction to Statistical Analysis," 3rd ed., by Wilfred J. Dixon and Frank J. Massey.

Reviews the book "A Selection of Early Statistical Papers of J. Neyman."

Reviews the book "The Mathematics of Statistics," Robert W. Burgess

This column reviews Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace; That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum; The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need by Daniel H. Pink; The Manga Guide to Statistics by Shin Takahashi; Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers by Scott Norton; and The IBM Style Guide: Conventions for Writers and Editors by Francis DeRespinis, Peter Hayward, Jana Jenkins, Amy Laird, Leslie McDonald, and Eric Radzinski. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the book "Statistics for Experimenters, Design, Innovation and Discovery," 2nd edition.

Reviews the educational video recording "Knowledge Is Power: An Introduction to Using Statistics."

Reviews the book "Statistics for Math Haters," by Elijah P. Lovejoy.

This article reviews the book "Statistics Sources," Fourth Edition edited by Wasserman and Paskar.

Reviews the book "Critical Values in 2X2 Tables," by R.E. Clark.

Reviews the book "Mathematics and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers," by P. MacDonald.

The article presents information on the book "Modern Elementary Statistics," by John E. Freund. This is an excellent book "written for a general introductory course in statistics." The illustrations and exercises are distributed among the various natural and social sciences. Since "the mathematical training assumed of the reader is a knowledge of arithmetic and perhaps some high school or college algebra," the book is suitable as a text in most introductory social statistics courses. Part One deals with Descriptive Statistics, Part Two with Probability and Sampling, Part Three with Prediction and Correlation, and Part Four with Special Topics with chapters on Index Numbers, Time Series, and Statistics and Science. The author writes in a very readable style and makes his explanations clear with interesting illustrations and an occasional story. One wonders why the author has not included at least one chapter on Analysis of Variance, but it was probably eliminated in holding the book down to a manageable length.