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Multiple Comparisons and Multiple Tests (Text and Workbook Set)
Peter H. Westfall , Randall D. Tobias , Dror Rom , Russell D. Wolfinger , and Yosef Hochberg
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ASIN: 1580258336

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This set includes Multiple Comparisons and Multiple Tests Using the SAS System and Multiple Comparisons and Multiple Tests Using the SAS System Workbook. The Workbook, written specifically for use with Multiple Comparisons and Multiple Tests Using the SAS System, provides real-world problems and solutions that will enhance your understanding of the material in the main text. The Workbook also provides updated information about multiple comparisons procedures, including enhancements for Release 8.1 of SAS. The chapters in the Workbook correlate with the chapters in the main text, and the format is clear and easy to use. This set is quite useful for learning multiple comparisons procedures in standard linear models, multivariate analysis, categorical analysis, and regression and nonparametric statistics.

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Multiple Comparisons and Multiple Tests Using the SAS System
Randall D. Tobias , Dror Rom , Russell D. Wolfinger , and Yosef Hochberg
Manufacturer: SAS Publishing
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SAS for Mixed Models, Second Edition
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Survival Analysis Using SAS: A Practical Guide
Advanced Log-Linear Models Using SAS
Applied Multivariate Statistics With SAS Software

ASIN: 1580253970

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Have you ever felt that there was no multiple inference method that fits the particular constraints of your data? Or been overwhelmed by the many choices of procedures? This book solves both dilemmas for you by providing cutting-edge methods, specialized macros, and proven "best bet" procedures. The specialized macros and dozens of real-world examples illustrate solutions for a broad variety of problems that call for multiple inferences. The book also discusses the pitfalls and advantages of various methods, thereby helping you decide which is the most appropriate for your purposes.

If you are a researcher or scientist in pharmaceuticals, engineering, government, or medicine, you will find many methods applied to real data and examples from your field. The book includes specialized code and explanations throughout. It discusses in detail pairwise comparisons and comparisons with a control. Additional topics include general linear contrasts; multiple comparisons of multivariate means; multiple inferences with mixed models, discrete data, and survival analysis. Users with releases of SAS software prior to Version 7 will need to make some modifications.

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A "witty celebration of comparisons....The interplay of words and pictures is intriguing, with the artist's sense of humor a perfect match for the author's playful tone....As is a real find."--Language Arts. "Wonderfully entertaining."--Kirkus Reviews.

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Yeah for English!.......2006-02-23

We love this book! "We" includes me (homeschooling mama), and my seven year old and four year old sons. We are ordering it for our home because we enjoy reading it, even portions, just for the fun of it! I am reading it as part of our reading before we do our reading proper in homeschool time. It makes English enjoyable and worth doing again and again! The similes make you smile, but are helping my sons to get a feel for how reading and doing things with words is like playing with toys. For me, this book is like math manipulatives. Hope this is helpful!

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Great book for first grade
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Math=Fun
Awkward rhymes but still fun
Great!

Just Enough Carrots (MathStart 1)
Stuart J. Murphy
Manufacturer: HarperTrophy
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ASIN: 0064467112

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Elephants, rabbits, and birds shop in this funny grocery store. Can you guess what the little rabbit wants more of? Munchy, crunchy carrots, of course! And fewer of? Squirmy worms and chewy peanuts (yuck!). So why is his mother buying all those cans of worms?

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Great book for first grade.......2007-02-06

This book helped me introduce more than and less than relation symbols. Also it is easy enough for some of my students to read on their own.

Great concept.......2006-05-24

I think this book is a great way to introduce beginning math concepts. There is also a section at the back of the book with suggested questions and some activities to further extend the concepts presented. As for comments on the rhyming, I thought it was well done. Any of the "awkward rhymes" were so "barely there" that I hardly noticed them (only because I was looking for them). I felt that it contained enough rhymes to maintain interest but not so many that you are focusing on the rhymes and not the concepts presented.

Math=Fun.......2001-11-10

A wonderful way to introduce the math concepts of comparing amounts.

Awkward rhymes but still fun.......2001-10-10

A young rabbit and his mother go to the store to pick-up a few things: carrots, peanuts and worms (!). As the mother rabbit picks up different quantities, the young rabbit whines and complains (in a cute way) about the amounts. The mother rabbit compares the amounts to other shoppers in the store using the terms more, fewer and same. Graphics summarize the terms for each item.

The rhymes strike me as clumsy, but the book is fun to read with various voices for the mother and young rabbit. The young rabbit's facial expressions and gestures lend nicely to telling the story.

One part that might be of special interest is the young rabbits enthusiasm for carrots. He *likes* to eat them and begs his mother to buy more. For children who don't like carrots, this might just encourage them to "munch, munch and crunch" along with their rabbit friend.

Both my boys enjoy the book, but my 18 month old seems particularly enamored with it. It's a bit too basic for my three year old, but he still has fun with it.

Great!.......2000-12-22

My 26 month old daughter loves this book. We only bought it a few days ago and have already read it at least a dozen times. I like the rhyming too. There are some books that I don't enjoy reading over and over again, but this one is fun to read. It flows nicely and the illustrations are adorable. I especially get a kick out of the little rabbit's eyes as he pleads with his mom to buy fewer peanuts :-) We're looking into getting more of the Mathstart books because we like this one so much.

What Are The Gospels?: A Comparison With Graeco-roman Biography (Biblical Resource)

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Excellent answer to the question of the Gospels' genre
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What Are The Gospels?: A Comparison With Graeco-roman Biography (Biblical Resource)
Richard A. Burridge
Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0802809715

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In this work Dr Burridge contends that scholarly study of the genre of the Gospels has gone full circle over the last century of critical scholarship. The question of how the Gospels should be categorised is still a vexed one and - surprisingly - there is still no consensus. This book analyses and evaluates the debate over the course of the last century. It shows that while the nineteenth-century assumption that the Gospels could be likened to biographies has been denied by the mainstream scholarship of this century, in recent years a biographical genre has begun to be assumed once more. Dr Burridge provides a good foundation for the re-introduction of this biographical view of the Gospels by comparing the work of the Evangelists to the development of biography in the Graeco-Roman world, and by drawing on insights from literary theory. The author shows that the view that the Gospels are unique, which is still widespread among biblical scholars, is false: a first-century reader would have seen the Gospels as biographies, or ‘Lives’ of Jesus, and they must therefore be interpreted in this light.

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A Dry Scholarship? Come and You Will See Otherwise.......2006-07-26

I wrote to Dr. Burridge recently that I wish I found the volume when I was a seminarian studying the Gospels. I am ministering youth and teens at a local Mennonite church in Indonesia. The volume is extremely enlightening. I prefer to reading Anglo-Saxon scholars to North American who are so often too simplistic and pragmatic (pardon me). Yet many times I find Anglo-Saxon writers are deep in exploring something but dry in nurturing soul. This book is an exception. It helps much in my ministry.

Here is Dr. Burridge's reply: "I'm glad to hear that you feel that the scholarship helps with your ministry - this is indeed the driving force behind most of my writing."

I humbly invite those who are keen on correct doctrinal teachings and preachings to submit once again to the study of the Gospels and grasp the book. He himself was to come back to the Gospels having written a massive monograph: WHAT ARE THE GOSPELS? to help his personal struggle in spiritual life.

The monograph is a groundbreaking study in the study of the Gospels. He is a classicist turned New Testament scholar. His graduate study in classic was done in Oxford, and the doctorate in Nottingham. He aptly demonstrates that the Gospels are a kind of ancient "Bioi." Find what the ancient "Bioi" with contemporary biographies. The technical work has been strongly condensed in FOUR JESUS, ONE GOSPELS?: A SYMBOLIC READING.

I am really happy to find the popular volume, since the explanation are employing the most popular literary and visual art works--as C. S. Lewis' NARNIA and Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS. Recently I wrote a paper for an academic journal on how to read the Bible with imagination, and I was helped by Tolkien's LOTR. And Dr. Burridge aptly provides me with samples.

Come to hear again the roar of the Lion in Mark, to sit under the wise teaching of the Israel Teacher in Matthew, to contemplate on the burden-bearer ox in Luke , and to soar high with the flying eagle in John. You and I will find that our lives are worth living!!!

Thanks so much, Dr. Burridge.

Excellent answer to the question of the Gospels' genre.......2006-05-11

I have heard claims that the Gospels are "metaphor" or that they were never meant to be taken as biographical (and therefore don't have much or any historical data). This book ably debunks such claims.

The intent of this book is not to prove the historicity of Gospels, but to prove their genre. By establishing their genre, then we can better understand the intent of the authors.

The well reasoned conclusion in Burridge's book is: the Gospels fit the ancient genre of biography.

In doing so he discusses a lot about genre and analysis (this section was a bit tedious for me, but it was thorough). In all of the discussion and examples we learn how the ancient biographies are much different from modern ones. This is a key point, because I think much of the debates and criticisms of the gospels are done from the perspective of a modern biographical viewpoint. The ancients wrote biographies differently than those that are written today. But this does not make them more or less true. It is a matter of emphasis. Today we want to know the details about dates, eye color, and a year by year accounting of events. The ancients were more selective in their biographies, and often focused on character not a chronological "play by play" of a person's life. The ancient biographers did not just write to catalogue facts about a person, they often wrote to demonstrate why or why not we should emulate their subject. Moderns too have such motives, and even biases, but they are often less up front about them. In many ways the ancients are superior in this regard, because it makes it easier to distinguish between data and commentary.

In the end, Burridge gives several examples of biography from the ancient world, and demonstrates that the Gospels very clearly match their pattern. Though there is variety between each of the biographies and the Gospels, they are clearly demonstrated to be part of the same family of literature. This then establishes how the Gospel writers understood their own works to be - biographies of Jesus.

Careful and persuasive........2004-04-10

What are the Gospels? Biography? Myth? A unique genre of literature, otherwise unknown to the ancient world?

Richard Burridge begins by discusses genre, how it develops and evolves. He offers a dozen or so characteristics by which we can judge the genre of a book. No one item by itself proves that a given book belongs to a certain genre, he argues.

Following a few longish sections that establish his methods of analysis, Burridge introduces ten works that belong to the category of Graeco-Roman bioi, five from before the time of Christ, five from shortly after. Applying the criteria he mentions earlier to these works, he establishes what an ancient biography was really like. Then he considers the Synoptic Gospels, concluding that they clearly fit into this category. Next he performs the same operation with the Gospel of John, and concludes that it is also an example of ancient biography.

I think Burridge proves his case, that the canonical Gospels do belong to the category of ancient bioi, or biography. (Be prepared for a few words of Greek in the text.) But what does that mean to call the Gospels "biography?" Among the examples of Bioi he considers are Tacitus' Agricola, a sober account of a Roman general written by his son in law a few years after his death, and Apollonius of Tyana, a tall tale loosely based on a New Age guru that talks about various breeds of dragon in India, and was written more than a hundred years after the alleged life it portrays. So the simple fact that a work belongs to the category of bioi, does not prove that it is true.

Burridge notes however that Apollonius is rather on the fringe of the genre. In some ways, the Gospels are closer to Agricola. Having closely compared these two texts with the Gospels on my own, I came to the conclusion that in terms of historical reliability, the Gospels are closer to Agricola, and hardly resemble Apollonius of Tyana at all. In fact,in some ways the Gospels seem more historical than Agricola.

But Burridge does not discuss the historicity of the books he reviews directly. Instead, he conducts a somewhat plodding, but careful, convincing, and I think useful argument that helps one better understand literary genre, ancient literature, the Gospels, and how they all fit together.

The Book of comparisons of distance, size, area, volume, mass, weight, density, energy, temperature, time, speed, and number throughout the universe
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The Book of comparisons of distance, size, area, volume, mass, weight, density, energy, temperature, time, speed, and number throughout the universe

Manufacturer: Sidgwick & Jackson in association with Penguin
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The Japanese Model of Schooling : Comparisons with the United States (Reference Books in International Education, Volume 27)
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The Japanese Model of Schooling : Comparisons with the United States (Reference Books in International Education, Volume 27)
Ryok Tsuneyoshi
Manufacturer: RoutledgeFalmer
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ASIN: 0815336411

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In this book, Dr. Tsuneyoshi observes the educational approach of two nations, one most often cited as being the "home of rugged individualism," and the champion of the free market, the other more often cited as being the most groupist amongst the industrialized societies, known for strong central guidance. He argues that American approach individualizes assistance, is competitive, focuses on the child's cognitive sphere, differentiates its faculty, and each faculty deals with the child in a specialized sphere. Meanwhile, the Japanese approach stresses the whole child, places children and faculty in close proximity with each other for extended periods of time in a cooperative framework, levels of self-containment are higher, collective goals, tasks, and reward structures are extensively organized, and the school provides the same treatment for all. Yet, despite such differences, Dr. Tsuneyoshi points out that we can notice many parallels, both in the contexts of education, and in the direction in which the two societies are headed. Dr. Tsuneyoshi brings to light both similarities and differences, asking and attempting to answer the difficult question all educators are asking: What do we need to teach children for the 21st century?

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Correction of review.......2001-11-09

Prof. Tsuneyoshi is a woman. Your review refers to the author as "he," which should be changed to she.

The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison With the Alexandrian Tradition: Acts 6.1-12.25: From Judaea And Samaira To The Church In Antioch (Library of New Testament Studies)

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The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae: A Comparison With the Alexandrian Tradition: Acts 6.1-12.25: From Judaea And Samaira To The Church In Antioch (Library of New Testament Studies)
Josep Rius-Camps , and Jenny Read-Heimerdinger
Manufacturer: T. & T. Clark Publishers, Ltd.
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ASIN: 0567040127

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A comparison of the message of Acts transmitted by Codez Bezae with that of the more familiar Alexandrian text, represented by Codex Vaticanus. For each section of Acts, there is a side by side translation of the Bezan and Alexandrian manuscripts, followed by a critical apparatus and, finally, a commentary that explores the differences in the message of the two texts. It is concluded that the Bezan text, with its interest in internal Jewish affairs and its focus on the struggles of the early disciples to free themselves from their traditional Jewish expectations and to achieve, despite their mistakes, a more accurate understanding of their master's teaching, is the earlier of the two texts. LNTS 302

Institutional Context of Education Systems in Europe: A Cross-Country Comparison on Quality and Equity

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Institutional Context of Education Systems in Europe: A Cross-Country Comparison on Quality and Equity

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ASIN: 1402027443

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Based on empirical analysis using configuration theory and multi-dimensional scaling, this book provides insight into types of relationships that can be found between groups of countries with certain institutional context features, and into the quality and equity of their education system.

In this volume, the authors take up the challenge of considering what a European ‘settlement’ might look like. In doing so, they take into account worldwide trends and the increasing evidence of convergence across educational systems. The outcomes of comparative analyses seem to suggest that strong education systems in terms of finance, governance and choice could be preferable. To a greater or lesser extent, therefore, all the systems of education currently in use in Europe face some common challenges. The way in which these challenges are addressed will determine the future of these systems. Key elements in the current debate that are considered in greater detail in this volume include changing views on (a) centre-local relations with signs of an increasing commitment to decentralisation as a guiding principle for developing school governance; (b) school autonomy which is now increasingly regarded as the engine-room for school improvement, especially in relation to sustaining it; and (c) the celebration of community and school choice as a means of securing higher levels of parental involvement.

This volume will be of interest to researchers and practitioners working in education, educational research and sociology of education. It will also be of relevance to those interested in the comparison of various education systems and in governance, funding of education and school choice.

Apples to Apples A Game of Hilarious Comparisons - Cards Game

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Apples to Apples A Game of Hilarious Comparisons - Cards Game

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