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A Mathematics Course for Political and Social Research /
Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a "math camp" or a semester-long or yearlong course to acquire the necessary skills. Available textbooks are w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Part I. Building Blocks
- Chapter One. Preliminaries Math
- Chapter Two. Algebra Review
- Chapter Three. Functions, Relations, and Utility
- Chapter Four. Limits and Continuity, Sequences and Series, and More on Sets
- Part II. Calculus in One Dimension
- Chapter Five. Introduction to Calculus and the Derivative
- Chapter Six. The Rules of Differentiation
- Chapter Seven. The Integral
- Chapter Eight. Extrema in One Dimension
- Part III. Probability
- Chapter Nine. An Introduction to Probability
- Chapter Ten. An Introduction to (Discrete) Distributions
- Chapter Eleven. Continuous Distributions
- Part IV. Linear Algebra
- Chapter Twelve. Fun with Vectors and Matrices
- Chapter Thirteen. Vector Spaces and Systems of Equations
- Chapter Fourteen. Eigenvalues and Markov Chains
- Part V. Multivariate Calculus and Optimization
- Chapter Fifteen. Multivariate Calculus
- Chapter Sixteen. Multivariate Optimization
- Chapter Seventeen. Comparative Statics and Implicit Dierentiation
- Bibliography
- Index