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49 produkter
Medical Illuminations
Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there''s no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?The answers to these questions are not as black and white …
Medical Illuminations
Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare
E-bok, 2013
437 kr
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Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there''s no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?The answers to these questions are not as black and white …
Medical Illuminations
Using Evidence, Visualization and Statistical Thinking to Improve Healthcare
Inbunden, 2013
602 kr
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Is it sensible to screen for breast or prostate cancer? Should the locations of cancer clusters be made available to the general public? When a doctor wants to perform major surgery and there's no chance for a second opinion, do you agree?The answers to these questions are not as black and white as …
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications
Av Howard Wainer, Eric T. Bradlow m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
629 kr
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The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory) to models that focus on individual test items (item response theory) to models that use small groups of items (testlets) as the fungible unit from …
Testlet Response Theory and Its Applications
Av Howard Wainer, Eric T. Bradlow m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1628 kr
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The measurement models employed to score tests have been evolving over the past century from those that focus on the entire test (true score theory) to models that focus on individual test items (item response theory) to models that use small groups of items (testlets) as the fungible unit from …
History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
Av Michael Friendly, Howard Wainer
Inbunden, 2021
346 kr
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A comprehensive history of data visualization—its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems.With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to our daily lives. Navigation apps show real-time, interactive traffic data. A color-coded map of exit …
Graphic Discovery
A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures
Häftad, 2007
414 kr
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Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern invention. This book is the first to comprehensively plot humankind's fascinating efforts to visualize …
Uneducated Guesses
Using Evidence to Uncover Misguided Education Policies
Inbunden, 2011
201 kr
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Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. In this explosive book, Howard Wainer uses statistical evidence to show why some of …
Picturing the Uncertain World
How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display
Häftad, 2011
278 kr
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In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. Now he's back with Picturing the Uncertain World, a book that explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous …
Differential Item Functioning
Av Paul W. Holland, Howard Wainer
Inbunden, 1993
3070 kr
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Test fairness is a moral imperative for both the makers and the users of tests. This book focuses on methods for detecting test items that function differently for different groups of examinees and on using this information to improve tests. Of interest to all testing and measurement specialists, …
Computerized Adaptive Testing
A Primer
Av Howard Wainer, Neil J. Dorans m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
3216 kr
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This celebrated primer presents an introduction to all of the key ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory. Based on years of research, this accessible book educates the novice and serves as a compendium of …
Test Scoring
Av David Thissen, Howard Wainer
Inbunden, 2001
2445 kr
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Test Scoring provides a summary of traditional true score test theory and modern item response theory related to scoring tests, as well as novel developments resulting from the integration of these approaches. The background material introduced in the first four chapters builds a foundation for the …
Drawing Inferences From Self-selected Samples
Inbunden, 2000
1481 kr
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This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples. This topic is of direct interest to a professional audience of survey researchers, pollsters, market researchers, …
Visual Revelations
Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception From Napoleon Bonaparte To Ross Perot
Inbunden, 2000
2516 kr
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To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace. The most efficient way to do this is through data-based graphics. This book is an exploration and celebration of graphical methods of data presentation. Visual Revelations' principal purpose is to …
Test Validity
Av Howard Wainer, Henry I. Braun
Inbunden, 1988
2445 kr
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Technological and theoretical changes over the past decade have altered the way we think about test validity. This book addresses the present and future concerns raised by these developments. Topics discussed include: * the validity of computerized testing * the validity of testing for specialized …
Subscores
A Practical Guide to Their Production and Consumption
Av Howard Wainer, Richard A. Feinberg m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
457 kr
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Subscores
A Practical Guide to Their Production and Consumption
Av Shelby Haberman, Sandip Sinharay m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
461 kr
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This authoritative guide directs consumers and users of test scores on when and how to provide subscores and how to make informed decisions based on them. The book is designed to be accessible to practitioners and score users with varying levels of technical expertise, from executives of testing …
Subscores
A Practical Guide to Their Production and Consumption
Av Howard Wainer, Richard A. Feinberg m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
457 kr
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Subscores
A Practical Guide to Their Production and Consumption
Av Shelby Haberman, Sandip Sinharay m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1302 kr
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This authoritative guide directs consumers and users of test scores on when and how to provide subscores and how to make informed decisions based on them. The book is designed to be accessible to practitioners and score users with varying levels of technical expertise, from executives of testing …
Testing and the Paradoxes of Fairness
Av Howard Wainer, Daniel H. Robinson
Häftad, 2025
326 kr
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How can admissions officers, employers, and scholarship committees maximize the accuracy of prediction of individual performance while minimizing adverse impact due to group differences? Testing offers a straightforward solution to the first half of this problem. Tests are the best way to predict …
Testing and the Paradoxes of Fairness
Av Daniel H. Robinson, Howard Wainer
E-bok, 2025
365 kr
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Testing and the Paradoxes of Fairness
Av Daniel H. Robinson, Howard Wainer
E-bok, 2025
365 kr
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Testing and the Paradoxes of Fairness
Av Howard Wainer, Daniel H. Robinson
Inbunden, 2025
885 kr
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How can admissions officers, employers, and scholarship committees maximize the accuracy of prediction of individual performance while minimizing adverse impact due to group differences? Testing offers a straightforward solution to the first half of this problem. Tests are the best way to predict …
Statistical Guide for the Ethically Perplexed
Av Howard Wainer, Lawrence Hubert
E-bok, 2012
1074 kr
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Exploring the intersection of ethics and statistics, this comprehensive guide illustrates the proper use of probabilistic and statistical reasoning in the behavioral, social, and biomedical sciences. Lauded for their contributions to statistics, psychology, and psychometrics, the authors make …
Drawing Inferences From Self-selected Samples
E-bok, 2013
560 kr
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This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples. This topic is of direct interest to a professional audience of survey researchers, pollsters, market researchers, …
Drawing Inferences From Self-selected Samples
E-bok, 2013
560 kr
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This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples. This topic is of direct interest to a professional audience of survey researchers, pollsters, market researchers, …
Visual Revelations
Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception From Napoleon Bonaparte To Ross Perot
E-bok, 2013
1074 kr
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To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace. The most efficient way to do this is through data-based graphics. This book is an exploration and celebration of graphical methods of data presentation. Visual Revelations'' principal purpose is to …
Visual Revelations
Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception From Napoleon Bonaparte To Ross Perot
E-bok, 2013
1043 kr
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To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace. The most efficient way to do this is through data-based graphics. This book is an exploration and celebration of graphical methods of data presentation. Visual Revelations'' principal purpose is to …
Computerized Adaptive Testing
A Primer
Av David Thissen, Lynne Steinburg m. fl.
E-bok, 2000
1027 kr
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This celebrated primer presents an introduction to all of the key ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory. Based on years of research, this accessible book educates the novice and serves as a compendium of …
Computerized Adaptive Testing
A Primer
Av David Thissen, Lynne Steinburg m. fl.
E-bok, 2000
997 kr
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This celebrated primer presents an introduction to all of the key ingredients in understanding computerized adaptive testing technology, test development, statistics, and mental test theory. Based on years of research, this accessible book educates the novice and serves as a compendium of …
