Lee Baker – författare

Russia's engagement with Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II was ferocious, unprecedented and bloody, costing millions of civilian and military lives. In this challenging new book, Lee Baker distinguishes myth from reality and deflates the idea that this war, while gargantuan in scale, was in essence a war like any other.

Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience is a fascinating collection of readings that explores how people negotiate identity in the United States today. Brings together readings that provide a thoroughly engaging and fascinating look at central issues of identity and what it means to be American.Explores the tension between identity and identification to help readers begin to understand how people creatively confront the perks and perils of identity in the United States.Offers a look at a wide range of subjects including: violence and video games, queer pilgrimages to San Francisco, Filipina critiques of "sleeping around," and the significance of "lowriders" in Hispano/Chicano culture.

Russia's engagement with Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II was ferocious, unprecedented and bloody, costing millions of civilian and military lives. In this challenging new book, Lee Baker distinguishes myth from reality and deflates the idea that this war, while gargantuan in scale, was in essence a war like any other.

Discover the story of your data using the essential elements of associations and correlationsKey FeaturesGet a comprehensive introduction to associations and correlationsExplore multivariate analysis, understand its limitations, and discover the assumptions on which it's basedGain insights into the various ways of preparing your data for analysis and visualizationBook DescriptionAssociations and correlations are ways of describing how a pair of variables change together as a result of their connection. By knowing the various available techniques, you can easily and accurately discover and visualize the relationships in your data. This book begins by showing you how to classify your data into the four distinct types that you are likely to have in your dataset. Then, with easy-to-understand examples, you'll learn when to use the various univariate and multivariate statistical tests. You'll also discover what to do when your univariate and multivariate results do not match. As the book progresses, it describes why univariate and multivariate techniques should be used as a tag team, and also introduces you to the techniques of visualizing the story of your data. By the end of the book, you'll know exactly how to select the most appropriate univariate and multivariate tests, and be able to use a single strategic framework to discover the true story of your data. What you will learnIdentify a dataset that's fit for analysis using its basic featuresUnderstand the importance of associations and correlationsUse multivariate and univariate statistical tests to confirm relationshipsClassify data as qualitative or quantitative and then into the four subtypesBuild a visual representation of all the relationships in the datasetAutomate associations and correlations with CorrelVizWho this book is forThis is a book for beginners – if you're a novice data analyst or data scientist, then this is a great place to start. Experienced data analysts might also find value in this title, as it will recap the basics and strengthen your understanding of key concepts. This book focuses on introducing the essential elements of association and correlation analysis.