In recent years, there has been a burst of innovative work on methods for estimating causal
effects using observational data. Much of this work has extended and brought a renewed …

As the gap between processor and memory speeds continues to widen, methods for
evaluating memory system designs before they are implemented in hardware are becoming …

In this chapter, we present econometric and statistical methods for analyzing randomized
experiments. For basic experiments, we stress randomization-based inference as opposed …

Al elaborar la novena edición, nuestro interés principal no fue tan sólo agregar material
nuevo sino brindar claridad y mejor comprensión. Este objetivo se logró en parte al incluir …

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth of natural language text data, including web
pages, news articles, scientific literature, emails, enterprise documents, and social media …

We need every minute of class, so I will enforce strict time limits on pop quizzes when we
have them. If you are late to class, you will be required to stop whenever I ask all students to …

This book provides a comprehensive account of the methods used in social surveys. All the
stages of a survey are covered, from the original planning to the drafting of the final report …

In this clearly reasoned defense of Bayes's Theorem--that probability can be used to
reasonably justify scientific theories--Colin Howson and Peter Urbach examine the way in …

This paper introduces a new approach to database disk buffering, called the LRU-K method.
The basic idea of LRU-K is to keep track of the times of the last K references to popular …

Cellular RNA levels are determined by the interplay of RNA production, processing and
degradation. However, because most studies of RNA regulation do not distinguish the …