January 2006
Beginner
467 pages
14h 21m
English
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Tom Dierickx is a data analyst specializing in automating data processes and authoring data-driven solutions. He has a wide range of computer programming and database development experience, along with an M.S. in statistics from Arizona State University. All of the languages, tools, and techniques he enthusiastically pursues—whether technical or statistical—are simply an outgrowth of the passion he has for working with data.
Mark E. Johnson, Ph.D., earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University’s Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics in 1998, where his research interests included the visualization and study of chaotic dynamical systems arising in physics and chemical engineering. A cofounder of SportMetrika, Inc., Mark spent the 2004 baseball season as the in-house baseball analyst of the National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals. While pursuing his B.S. in computer science and M.A. in mathematics as an undergraduate at Indiana University, Mark spent four years as a student manager of the men’s basketball team under the leadership of Coach Bob Knight.
Matthew S. Johnson, Ph.D., earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon in 2001. His research interests lie in the field of psychometrics, estimating abilities from repeated categorical responses, where the responses might be answers to test questions used to measure a student’s ability, or wins and losses ...
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