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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Phillips, Abraham (illustrator). First Edition. 317 pages. Ex-university library marks, some wear and staining to the covers; pages toned; broken hinges but an intact reading copy still. No jacket. Illustrator: Phillips, Abraham. Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; Inventory No: 219618.

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Zustand: Very Good. First edition, first printing, 702 pp., Hardcover, previous owner's name to front pastedown, light wear to spine and cover edges else text clean & binding tight (lacks dust jacket). - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Stated 1st edition; small 8vo., cloth covered boards, 300 pages, black & white illustrations; introduction by Hindus; contributers include: Jacob Epstein, Abraham Cahan, Henry James, James G. Huneker, Henry Roth, Lillian Roth, Morris Cohen, Lillian Wald, Jacob Riis and Lincoln Steffens; very good ina lightly soiled and edgeworn dust jacket.

(25 x 17 cm). SS. 279-313. Original-Broschur. (Sonderdruck aus: Econometrica). Erste Ausgabe. "In some previous publications the author has laid the foundations for a general theory of statistical decision functions when the number of observations, on the basis of which a decision is to be made, is determined in advance. The purpose of this paper is to extend this theory to the case where the number of observations required for a decision is not determined in advance, but is made dependent on the outcome of the observations" (Introduction). - Wald (1902-1950), einer der bedeutendsten Statistiker des 20. Jahrhunderts, gilt als Begründer der statistischen Entscheidungstheorie, der auch einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft geleistet hat. - Umschlag gestempelt, sonst sauber und gut erhalten. - DSB 14, 121.

Originalpappband. 23cm. Zustand: Sehr gut. Third printing. XII, 212 pages. Index. FRISCHES Exemplar. We offer a lot of books on PHYSICS and MATHEMATICS on stock in EXCELLENT shape) Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 505.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. R240095947: 1966. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. XII + 212 pages - ouvrage en anglais - quelques figures en noir et blanc dans le texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. R240095917: 1965. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 212 pages - ouvrage essentiellement en anglais - quelques figures en noir et blanc dans le texte. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. 140 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann entsprechende Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.). Aufgrund des Alters und der häufigen Nutzung können Stabilität, Einband sowie Papierqualität beeinträchtigt sein. Buchrücken instabil. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 375.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good-. 2nd Printing. dustjacket worn and torn, previous owners name ffep otherwise unmarked, 702pp, NF/G-. Book.

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Small 4to; blue cloth covered boards; hardcover; 317 pages; black and white" illustrations from etchings and drawings by Abraham Phillips and from photographs"; a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket.

4to. 179 pp. Firma. Encuadernación en tela editorial con sobrecubierta plastificada. Buen estado.

1. Aufl. 206 S. Mit zahlr. farb. Illustrationen von Elke Spuler-Bullert. ; Inhalt: Prinz Lieschen, Augustusburg, Blick ins Land, Berggeschrei, Sagen um Schatzgräber und Städtegründer: Der Schatz unterm Meiler - Die Wunderblume vom Bärenstein - Abraham Teller und die Maus - Das sonderbare Eisen von Schneeberg, Freiberg, Daniel Knappe und die silbernen Eie, Der Maler und der Pochmann, Unter Tage, Über und unter Tage - Bergbau zum Schauen und Anfassen, Vom Saigern und vom Hämmern, Vom Erz zum Metall - Technische Denkmale, Bergparade, Der Marktplatz im Walde, Glückauf! Greifensteinsagen: Nächtliches Ständchen - Gevatter Berggeist -Kettchen in den Zweigen - Vom Gastmahl in den Greifensteinen, Wasser bergab - Wasser bergauf, Grabengeschichten, Das Zwergloch im Scheibenberg, Ein Berg steht kopf, Der Zickzacksteig, Eine Landschaft steht schief, Der Edelsteinfelsen, Ein bißchen was zum Einprägen, Der Spielwarenhändler, Das Spielzeugdorf: Kinderkram - Rechenaufgabe - Die Gemeindeväter schreiben einen Brief - Erfinder - Beim Nußknackerkönig - Reifendrehen - Ein rätselhafter Gast - Die Müller-Guste, Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich, Engel, Spinne, Räuchermann - Ein kleines Lexikon, Die Klöppelmad, Meister Flaths schlimmes Töchterlein, Ein Globetrotter marschiert nach Breitenbrunn, P 16, Nur für Mädchen: Heirats-Orakel Das Klügste, Das singende klingende hölzerne Ding, Musikwinkel, Kleiner vogtländischer Spruch-Beutel, Wetterweisheiten, Vom Junker und dem Teufel, Wie der Drache von Syrau ein Zuhause kriegte, Berge, Täler, Brücken, 60 Stunden bis Berlin? Der große und der kleine Bruder, Rätselraten, Do draußen in Wald, Miriquidi, Inschrift an einem Forsthaus, Die traurige Geschichte von der stolzen Fichte, Sechs Millionen Schüler und kein Krakeel, Bäumchen nach der Aschenputtelmethode, Beizeiten früh, Oh, schaurig ist`s, über das Moor zu geh, Das Lied vom Vugelbeerbaam, Schneebruch, Vom Stülpner-Karl, Der Wilderer, Das Waldweibchen, Abschied vom Walde, Ski und Rodel gut, Schönjungferngrund, `s Heilig-Obnd-Lied, Wie man den Weihnachtsmann empfängt, Neinerlaa, Wann`s in Winter schneie tut. 9783358010150 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 360 8° , Pappeinband , Gutes Exemplar.

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1955. Royal 8vo. Original cloth with silver lettering on spine. IX,702 pp. First edition.

New York, John Wiley & Sons, (1950). 8vo. Original cloth with gilt spine. No dust jacket. IX,179 pp. Text illustrated. First edition. Wald is considered the founder of statistical sequential analysis and the theory of decision functions. DSB XIV:121.

New York, John Wiley & Sons, (1947). Original cloth with gilt spine. No dust jacket. XII,212 pp. Text illustrated. First edition. Wald is considered the founder of statistical sequential analysis and the theory of decision functions. DSB XIV:121.

First edition. THE INVENTION OF SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS - THE ORIGINAL RESTRICTED REPORTS. First edition, very rare, of Wald's seminal invention of 'Sequential analysis', developed while he was in charge of Columbia University's Statistical Research Group in response to the demand for more efficient methods of industrial quality control during World War II. It is here offered in the original 'restricted' reports; it was published four years later in his well-known book of the same title. "Wald's second major achievement in mathematical statistics is sequential analysis. The notion that in some sense it is economical to observe and analyze data sequentially, rather than to observe and analyze a single sample of predetermined fixed size, was not a new one. Intuitive support for this notion is immediate; if the evidence shown in sequentially unfolding data is sharply one-sided, it seems reasonable to believe that the inquiry can be terminated early, with lengthier inquiries reserved for those situations in which the issue at hand appears, via the sequentially unfolding data, to be in greater doubt. This notion and the partial mathematical formulation of it were to be found in the statistical literature; among those who dealt with it before Wald was Walter Bartky of Chicago, and among Wald's contemporaries, George Barnard, working in England. But again it was Wald, in 1943, who first formulated mathematically and solved quite generally the problem of sequential tests of statistical hypotheses. He introduced the particular method of the sequential probability ratio test and, with Wolfowitz (1948), showed its optimal properties. He found operating characteristic and average sample number functions; he introduced, if he did not completely solve, the problem of sequential tests of composite hypotheses (utilizing weight functions); and he began vital discussions of such basic topics as multivalued decisions and optimal sequential estimation. All this, plus many special problems, were gathered together in Sequential Analysis (1947), a book surprisingly easy to read, less formal and more elementary in structure than his work on decision functions" (DSB). No copies listed on ABPC/RBH. "Sequential analysis is the branch of statistics concerned with investigations in which the decision whether or not to stop at any stage depends on the observations previously made. The motivation for most sequential investigations is that when the ends achieved are measured against the costs incurred (including the cost of making observations), sequential designs are typically more efficient than non-sequential designs "The term 'sequential' is occasionally extended to cover also investigations in which various aspects of the design may be changed according to the observations made. For example, preliminary experience in an experiment may suggest changes in the treatments being compared; in a social survey a small pilot survey may lead to modifications in the design of the main investigation In a sequential investigation observations must be examined either one by one as they are collected or at certain stages during collection. A sequential procedure might be desirable for various reasons. The investigator might wish to have an up-to-date record at any stage, either for general information or because the appropriate sample size depends on quantities that he can estimate only from the data themselves. Alternatively, he may have no intrinsic interest in the intermediate results but may be able to achieve economy in sample size by taking them into account. Three examples will illustrate these points: (1) An investigator may wish to estimate to within 10 per cent the mean weekly expenditure on tobacco per household. In order to determine the sample size he would need an estimate of the variability of the expenditure from household to household, and this might be obtainable only from the survey itself. (2) A physician wishing to compare the effects of two drugs in the treatment of some disease may wish to stop the investigation if at some stage a convincing difference can already be demonstrated using the available data. (3) A manufacturer carrying out inspection of batches of some product may be able to pass most of his batches with little inspection but may carryout further inspection of batches of doubtful quality. A given degree of discrimination between good and bad batches could be achieved in various ways, but a sequential scheme will often be more economical than one in which a sample of constant size is taken from each batch "The most appropriate design and method of analysis of a sequential investigation depend on the purpose of the investigation. The statistical formulation of that purpose may take one of a number of forms, usually either estimation of some quantity to a given degree of precision or testing a hypothesis with given size and given power against a given alternative hypothesis. Economy in number of observations is typically important for sequential design" (International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences). "The problem of sequential analysis arose in the Statistical Research Group of Columbia University in connection with some comments made by Captain G. L. Schuyler of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy Department. Milton Friedman and W. Allen Wallis recognized the great potentialities and the far-reaching consequences that sequential analysis might have for the further development of theoretical statistics. In particular, they conjectured that a sequential test procedure might be constructed which would control the possible errors committed by wrong decisions exactly to the same extent as the best current procedure based on a predetermined number of observations, and at the same time would require, on the average, a substantially smaller number of observations than the fixed number of observations needed for the current procedure. Friedman and Wallis also exhibited a few examples of sequential modifications of curre.

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1. Aufl. 167 S. Durchgehend mit zahlr. teils farb. Fotos von Klaus G. Beyer. ; Mit e. Geleitw. von Landesbischof Ingo Braecklein. ; Schrifttum der Pressestelle der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche in Thüringen. ; Inhalt: Zum Geleit, Vorwort, Dorfkirchen in der thüringischen Kirchengeschichte, Die Anfänge, Bonifatius in Thüringen, Glocken und Geräte für die Gottesdienste, Die ältesten Grabsteine, Die ersten Kirchenbauten, Thüringen im Bereich verschiedener Bistümer, Romanische Kirchen, Umbau alter Kirchen und Neubau im Stile der Gotik, Spätgotische Schnitzaltäre, Stürmische Kämpfe in der Reformationszeit, Von der Gotik zur Renaissance, Evangelische Gottesdienste und Predigten, Aufbau nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg, Aufblühende Kirchenmusik, Kanzelaltäre und Kirchenschmuck im Barock- und Rokokostil, Dokumente in Kirchturmknöpfen, Vom 18. bis in das 20. Jahrhundert, Einschnitt und Neuanfang, Kirchweihfeste und anderes Brauchtum, Eine unvergeßliche Kirmespredigt, Tafelteil, Erläuterungen zu den Abbildungen, Literaturverzeichnis, Übersichtskarte. ; "In fast jedem kleinen Dorf - und sei es noch so entlegen - gibt es in Thüringen an markanter Stelle eine Kirche. Das fällt jedem Besucher und Kurgast auf. Auf vielen Fahrten bemühte sich der Fotograf Klaus G. Beyer, in der Landschaft zwischen Werra, Unstrut, Saale, Elster und Pleiße, zwischen Kyffhäuser, Thüringer Wald, Vogtland und Frankenwald charakteristische Motive und künstlerische Kostbarkeiten im Bilde festzuhalten. Aus der Fülle seiner Aufnahmen können wir freilich nur eine Auswahl bringen. Denn im Bereich der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Thüringen gibt es etwa 1400 kleinere oder größere Kirchengemeinden. Über verschiedene Superintendenturen liegen bereits Bildbände vor, in denen Kirche für Kirche festgehalten und beschrieben ist, Z. B. aus der Umgebung von Jena, aus dem Eisenacher Land, aus der Rbön, aus der Umgebung von Eisfeld und Hildburghausen sowie aus den Gemeinden zwischen Schleusingen und Suhl; das sollte nicht wiederholt werden. Was in diesem Buch gezeigt wird, ist in kirch enge schichtliche Zusammenhänge gestellt, um die Bedeutung der Glaubenszeugnisse aus dem Zeitraum eines Jahrtausends unseren Lesern zu erläutern. Die zahlreichen Restaurierungen und auch einige Neubauten lassen die Liebe der Gemeindeglieder Zu ihrer Heimatkirche erkennen. Z& allen Abbildungen ist eine kurze Erklärung gegeben, welche die wichtigsten Bau- und Gestaltungsveränderungen nennt und neuere Forschungsergebnisse berücksichtigt. Auch dem Kenner der Thüringer Landschaft und ihrer komplizierten Territorialgeschichte wird vieles bisher Unbekannte nahegebracht. Eine Übersichtskarte führt die Grenzen der Kirchengebiete vor Augen und hebt die Gebiete hervor, die seit der Reformationszeit Mittelpunkte der Superintendenturen sind. Ein Ausschnitt aus dem kolorierten Weltatlas des Abraham Ortelius, der 1572 in Nürnberg als »Theatrum orbis terrarum" gedruckt wurde, zeigt Berge, Flüsse und Orte zwischen dem Thüringer Wald und der Mark Meißen, die zur Zeit der Landgrafen und Kurfürsten zusammengehörten. Dorf kirchen in der Heimat von Martin Luthers Eltern und Gotteshäuser, in denen Kantoren aus der Familie Bach wirkten, lassen nicht nur die Glaubenstreue der Bevölkerung, sondern auch ihre Musikliebe erkennen. Auf dem Schutzumschlag des Buches sind z^ei charakteristische Motive ZU sehen: die uralte Kirche der Weinbauern in Leutra bei Jena und die Kirche in dem vielbesuchten Kurort Finsterbergen." Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 890 4° (30 x 21 cm) , Leinen mit Schutzumschlag , Schönes Exemplar, Stempel.

Zustand: Gut. Reprint from 1976. XXII, 714 Seiten / p., Abb. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - There were two million of them. They settled mostly in the large cities and, fatefully, on the East Side of New York. They were the East European Jews who, during four decades beginning in the 1880s, came to America in the great migration. Here is the story of their attempt to keep their Yiddish culture while making their way in a new society. Their story is classically American; it is also inimitably Jewish. -- Irving Howe's book is a daring work; it projects a broad historical range in which the narrative is told through particular and individual human hopes and actions. Here are Joseph Barondess, Abraham Gahan, Jacob Adler, Lillian Wald, Belle Moskowitz, and David Dubinsky. Here is every aspect of Jewish lifethe old country village (shtetl), the Atlantic crossing in steerage, the teeming life of the East Side, the Yiddish press and theater, the settlement houses, the garment trades and unions, the associations of old country neighbors (landsmanshaften), the various socialist groups, the synagogue (shul) and the Hebrew school (heder), and the sweatshops and the disasters, including the Triangle Shirtwaist fire. -- From the immigrant Jews came art, ideas, movements, and works that affected all Americans, including New Deal social reforms, contemporary humor, musicals, movies, and the American Jewish novel. World of Our Fathers belongs in the library not only of every Jewish family, but also of every reader whose people came from somewhere else and, coming here, became something unique. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Gebundenes Halbleinen mit Schutzumschlag / Half Cloth with dust jacket.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1942, the Second World War was ravaging the globe, and the United States (US) Army Air Forces suffered massive losses. The US military enlisted a group of statisticians to analyze data from its planes that had returned from battle riddled with bullets. Their question was deceptively simple: where should the military add armor to the planes so that pilots and their craft could return fire, survive battles, and turn the tide of the war The answer seemed equally simple: position the armor where the holes are. Hungarian Jewish statistician Abraham Wald disagreed. In taking what would later be termed a 'survivorship bias' into consideration, Wald understood that the planes riddled with holes had one characteristic in common. They had made it home. For him, this was evidence that planes could survive holes in the places they had been punctured. Wald saw what was missing: all the planes at the bottom of the ocean that had not survived their skirmishes with the enemy. Wald's solution was to place the armor where the holes were not. In much the same way, this is a book about what is missing in our businesses and business schools today: an understanding of how government affects business. Today's business schools are missing valuable curriculum to prepare tomorrow's business leaders to deal with elected officials, regulators, and legislative bodies. By focusing on this void and using real-world examples from my career in government affairs and management consulting, this book sheds light on how business leaders can prepare themselves and their companies for a corporate world increasingly influenced, if not controlled, by the ever-increasing power of government.