About the Book
Features
- Offers a balance between theory and applications.
- Accurate, compelling exercise sets use significant real data from actual studies.
- The topical material in two-sample hypothesis testing, multiple linear regression, analysis of variance.
About the Authors
Raymond H Myers is currently Professor Emeritus of statistics at Virginia Tech. He received his Masters and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in statistics and his BS in chemical engineering. His major areas of interest are linear models, design of experiments, and response surface methodology. He has authored or co-authored six statistics texts that were published in fifteen separate editions and in several foreign languages. He has received numerous teaching awards and in 1985 he was selected “Professor of the Year” in the state of Virginia by the Council on the Advancement and Support of Education. He was elected Fellow of ASA in 1974. In 1999 he was given the Shewhart Award for lifetime contributions in statistics and quality control by the American Society of Quality.
Sharon L Myers is currently Professor Emeritus of mathematics and statistics at Radford University. She received her MS in statistics from Virginia Tech. Her areas of interest are statistical computing, regression analysis, and response surface methodology. She has co-authored three editions of “Probability & Statistics for Engineers & Scientists”. She was the assistant director of the statistical consulting center at Virginia Tech for 15 years and the director of the statistical consulting center at Radford University for 7 years.Features
- Each chapter begins with a case that is followed throughout the chapter, allowing students to see how what they are learning applies to real business situations.
- It covers cross cultural issues in training.
- It covers computer based e-learning and learning management systems
- This book contains coverage on motivation to learn and how employees are motivated to transfer training into their job performance.
Features
- A focus on both project and enterprise valuation shows students that the same principles apply to both internal and external growth, better illustrating the realities of today’s corporate world.
- Valuation is considered within a broad framework that includes behavioral finance, agency considerations, and strategic options.
- Discounted cash flow analysis coverage goes beyond the basics to include other tools, such as an entire chapter on comparables and in-depth discussions of simulation and real options.
- Project-specific risk attributes are covered in, showing students how to evaluate the cost of capital for the firm as a whole as well as for individual investment projects using WACC.
- Coverage of private equity markets illustrates how students can evaluate privately held companies, including the venture capital valuation method and the LBO valuation model.
- Coverage of real options takes a contemporary approach, showing how real options can become a powerful tool in building on intuition within a disciplined analytical framework.
About the Authors
Sheridan Titman holds the McCallister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas, Austin. Before his present post, he taught for a number of years at UCLA. Among his prolific research projects are studies in optimal capital structure, irrational investors, tangible and intangible information and market reactions, and Asian stock markets. He is coauthor of the textbook, Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy, with Mark Grinblatt.
John Martin holds the Carr P. Collins Chair in Finance at Baylor University, where he teaches corporate finance and financial modeling. He has published widely in the academic literature and in addition to Valuation, is the coauthor of four other textbooks: Financial Management, Foundations of Finance, Financial Analysis, and The Theory of Finance. He is especially interested in research in the areas of corporate governance, evaluation of firm performance, and the design of incentive compensation programs.Features
- Case studies and examples drawn from global and Indian companies such as Domtar, IBM, Godrej, Infosys, and Tata Steel
- Increased focus on training issues faced by small businesses
- Expanded coverage on computer-based training methods, cross-cultural training, and legal issues related to training
- New content on careers and trends in training
About the Authors
P. Nick Blanchard is Professor of Management at the College of Business, Eastern Michigan University.
James W. Thacker is Professor Emeritus at the Odette School of Business, University of Windsor.
V. Anand Ram is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources Management at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.Features
- An emphasis on fundamental limitation and tradeoff in control system design.
- An emphasis on analytic thinking and motivation
- Provide significant coverage on two-degree-of-freedom control
About the Authors
Prof. Li Qiu received the B.Eng degree from Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China, in 1981. He received the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He joined Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China, in 1993, where he is now a professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering. Prof. Qiu's research interests include system, control, information theory, and mathematics for information technology. He served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and an associate editor of Automatica. He is now a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Control Systems Society and the general chair of the 7th Asian Control Conference, which is to be held in Hong Kong in 2009. He is a fellow of IEEE.
Prof. Kemin Zhou was born in Wuhu, China, in 1962. He received B.S. degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1982, M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Minnesota in 1986 and 1988, respectively. Since 1990, he has been with Louisiana State University where he is currently Mark and Carolyn C. Guidry Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the leading author of two books in the field: Robust and Optimal Control (Prentice Hall, 1995), which has been used worldwide as graduate textbook and research references and has been translated into Japanese (1997) and Chinese (2002), and Essentials of Robust Control (Prentice Hall, 1997). He is/was an Associate Editor of Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Systems and Control Letters, Journal of System Sciences and Complexity, and Journal of Control Theory and Applications. He was named the Oskar R. Menton Endowed Professor in 1998 and Voorhies Distinguished Professor in 2004, recognized for outstanding accomplishments and contributions to LSU by the House of Representatives of the Louisiana Legislature in 2004, and received outstanding young investigator award from Natural Science Foundation of China in 2004. He was also selected in 2004 as the prestigious Chang Jiang Jiang Zuo Professor. He has also been honored as one of LSU 2008 Rainmakers. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 2003.Features
- Cisco's official prep guide for the new CCNP® SWITCH exam
- With 300 realistic questions on CD, plus pre-chapter quizzes for uncovering weaknesses and targeting study time
- Organized to promote retention, and help readers focus effectively on the exam's content
- Covers campus network design, campus VLANs, high availability, Spanning Tree, Inter-VLAN routing, and more
Features
- Crystal Structure
- Crystal Structure Determination
- Crystal Binding
- Lattice Vibrations
- Thermal Properties of Solids
- Dielectric Properties of Solids
- Free electron theory of metals-Static Properties
- Free electron theory of metals- Transport Properties
- Energy bands in solids
- Band theory of insulators and semiconductors
- Magnetism
- Magnetic Resonances
- Superconductivity
- Optical Properties of solids
Features
- 220 solved examples, 182 exercise problems and 140 multiple choice questions
- Covers amplifiers and voltage regulators in detail
- In-depth analysis of power amplifiers
- JFET and MOSFET circuit analysis explained using graphical methods
- Inverting and non-inverting amplifiers are thoroughly covered
Features
- Covers syllabus prescribed by all universities.
- Easy to understand explanation of basic concepts.
- Step by step tutorial based approach.
- Excellent Pedagogy
- 238 Solved examples
- 754 Illustrations
- 526 Unsolved Review questions
- 314 Multiple choice questions
Features
- Up-to-date, comprehensive and “all purpose” in approach
- Includes a set of multiple-choice questions at the end of each section to test your understanding
- Based on current trends in various examinations
- National and international current affairs
- Contains about 30 pages of coloured map
Features
- Strictly based on the latest IIT syllabus recommended by the IITJEE,
- Covers the subject in a structured way and familiarizes students with the trends in these examinations.
- Strictly aligned with the prescribed syllabus. Written in a lucid manner to assist students to understand the concepts without the help of any guide.
- Provides the vast subject in a structured and useful manner so as to familiarize the candidates taking the current examinations with the current trends and types of multiple-choice questions asked.
- The multiple-choice questions have been arranged in following categories:
o Straight Objective Type Questions (Single Choice),
o Brainteasers Objective Type Questions (Single Choice),
o Multiple Correct Answer Type Questions (More than one choice),
o Linked-Comprehension Type Questions,
o Assertion and Reasoning Questions,
o Matrix-Match Type Questions and the IIT JEE Corner
Features
- More than 5,000 problems with solutions
- Short-cut methods covering each type of question asked in the AIEEE
- Comprehensive practice exercises covering all topics are provided at the end of each chapter
- Problems asked in previous years’ AIEEEs are provided after every chapter with explanations
- A smart table that analyses the number of questions asked from various topics in recent AIEEEs
- AIEEE 2011 mathematics paper included
Features
- A roadmap gives the location of each topic of the syllabus within the book
- Includes exercises—with hints and solutions—at the end of each chapter
- Five university solved question papers appended at the end of the book
- Important symbols and formulae have been collected at the beginning of the book for ready reference
- More than 670 solved problems and 240 practice exercises
About the Authors
Babu Ram is currently the director of the MCA programme at Manav Rachna International University, Faridabad. Prior to this, he was a professor of mathematics and the dean of the faculty of physical sciences at Maharishi Dayanand University, Rohtak. He is a member of the Indian Mathematical Society and the American Mathematical Society. On the board of reviewers of both American Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete, he has over 42 research papers on real and functional analysis in reputed international journals to his credit.
Vijay Gupta is Associate Professor in Department of Applied Mathematics in University Institute of Technology (UIT-RGPV), Bhopal.
- This book fully covers the Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University syllabus and the content is structured as per the syllabus topics.
- Concepts are explained with the help of numerous examples.
- Plenty of practice questions
- Important topics from exam point of view are highlighted
Features
- This book fully covers the GTU syllabus and the content is structured as per the syllabus topics
- Concepts are explained with the help of numerous examples
- Important topics from exam point of view are highlighted
Features
- This book fully covers the CSVTU syllabus and the content is structured as per the syllabus topics.
- Concepts are explained with the help of numerous examples.
- Important topics from exam point of view are highlighted.
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