To raise and discipline an army : Major General Enoch Crowder, the Judge Advocate General's Office and the realignment of civil and military relations in World War I / / Joshua E. Kastenberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816848903321
• Autore: Kastenberg Joshua E. <1967->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dekalb, [Illinois] : , : Northern Illinois University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-5017-5804-7; 1-60909-213-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 343.73/0143
• Soggetti: Judge advocates - United States; Civil-military relations - United States - History - 20th century; World War, 1914-1918 - Law and legislation - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Enoch Crowder and the Wilson presidency -- Staffing and directing the Judge Advocate General's Department: duties and discipline -- The conscripting and training of a disciplined force -- Judge advocates in the AEF -- International law and administrative duties in war and after the Armistice -- Political oversight of military discipline -- Courts-martial, concerns over subversion, and conscientious objection -- Courts-martial and discipline controversy: 1918-1920 -- Conclusion: return to normalcy and a forgotten history.
• Sommario/riassunto: Major General Enoch Crowder served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. In 1915, Crowder convinced Congress to increase the size of the Judge Advocate General's Office—the legal arm of the United States Army—from thirteen uniformed attorneys to more than four hundred. Crowder's recruitment of some of the nation's leading legal scholars, as well as former congressmen and state supreme court judges, helped legitimize President Woodrow Wilson's wartime military and legal policies. As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the army numbered about 120,000 soldiers. The Judge Advocate General's Office was ; instrumental in extending the military's reach into the everyday lives of citizens to enable the construction of an army of more than four million soldiers by the end of the war. Under Crowder's leadership, the office was responsible for the creation and administration of the Selective Service Act, under which thousands of men were drafted into military service, as well as enforcement of the Espionage Act and wartime prohibition. In this first published history of the Judge Advocate General's Office between the years of 1914 and 1922, Joshua Kastenberg examines not only courts-martial, but also the development of the laws of war and the changing nature of civil-military relations. The Judge Advocate General's Office influenced the legislative and judicial branches of the government to permit unparalleled assertions of power, such as control over local policing functions and the economy. Judge advocates also altered the nature of laws to recognize a person's diminished mental health as a defense in criminal trials, influenced the assertion of US law overseas, and affected the evolving nature of the law of war. This groundbreaking study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers of US history, as well as military, legal, and political historians.

Volume equations for plantation cottonwood trees (Populus deltoides) [[electronic resource] /] / Roger M. Krinard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910695814503321
• Autore: Krinard R. M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Orleans, La. : , : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station, , [1988]
• Descrizione fisica: 4 pages : digital, PDF file
• Collana: Research note SO ; ; 347
• Soggetti: Cottonwood; Forests and forestry - Measurement
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed June 18, 2007); "June 1988."

Basics of Modern Mathematical Statistics / / by Vladimir Spokoiny, Thorsten Dickhaus

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910299781903321
• Autore: Spokoiny Vladimir
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-642-39909-6
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XVIII, 296 p. 1 illus.)
• Collana: Springer Texts in Statistics, , 1431-875X
• Disciplina: 519.5
• Soggetti: Statistics ; Mathematical statistics; Statistical Theory and Methods; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Basic notions -- Parameter Estimation for an i.i.d. Model -- Regression Estimation -- Estimation in Linear Models -- Bayes Estimation -- Testing a Statistical Hypothesis -- Testing in Linear Models -- Some other Testing Methods -- Deviation Probability for Quadratic Forms.
• Sommario/riassunto: This textbook provides a unified and self-contained presentation of the main approaches to and ideas of mathematical statistics. It collects the basic mathematical ideas and tools needed as a basis for more serious studies or even independent research in statistics. The majority of existing textbooks in mathematical statistics follow the classical asymptotic framework. Yet, as modern statistics has changed rapidly in recent years, new methods and approaches have appeared. The emphasis is on finite sample behavior, large parameter dimensions, and model misspecifications. The present book provides a fully self-contained introduction to the world of modern mathematical statistics, collecting the basic knowledge, concepts and findings needed for doing further research in the modern theoretical and applied statistics. This textbook is primarily intended for graduate and postdoc students and young researchers who are interested in modern statistical methods.