04622nam 22006735 450 991015045110332120250408162006.03-319-45528-110.1007/978-3-319-45528-0(CKB)3710000000943184(DE-He213)978-3-319-45528-0(MiAaPQ)EBC4737136(PPN)197139434(EXLCZ)99371000000094318420161108d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierQuantitative Analysis and IBM® SPSS® Statistics A Guide for Business and Finance /by Abdulkader Aljandali1st ed. 2016.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2016.1 online resource (XXI, 184 p. 143 illus., 119 illus. in color.) Statistics and Econometrics for Finance,2199-09483-319-45527-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.1 Getting Started with SPSS -- 2 Graphics and Introductory Statistical Analysis of Data -- 3 Frequencies and Crosstabulations -- 4 Coding, Missing Values, Conditional and Arithmetic Operations -- 5 Hypothesis Tests Concerning Means -- 6 Nonparametric Hypothesis Tests -- 7 Bivariate Correlation and Regression -- 8 Multivariate Regression -- 9 Logistic Regression.This guide is for practicing statisticians and data scientists who use IBM SPSS for statistical analysis of big data in business and finance. This is the first of a two-part guide to SPSS for Windows, introducing data entry into SPSS, along with elementary statistical and graphical methods for summarizing and presenting data. Part I also covers the rudiments of hypothesis testing and business forecasting while Part II will present multivariate statistical methods, more advanced forecasting methods, and multivariate methods. IBM SPSS Statistics offers a powerful set of statistical and information analysis systems that run on a wide variety of personal computers. The software is built around routines that have been developed, tested, and widely used for more than 20 years. As such, IBM SPSS Statistics is extensively used in industry, commerce, banking, local and national governments, and education. Just a small subset of users of the package include the major clearing banks, theBBC, British Gas, British Airways, British Telecom, the Consumer Association, Eurotunnel, GSK, TfL, the NHS, Shell, Unilever, and W.H.S. Although the emphasis in this guide is on applications of IBM SPSS Statistics, there is a need for users to be aware of the statistical assumptions and rationales underpinning correct and meaningful application of the techniques available in the package; therefore, such assumptions are discussed, and methods of assessing their validity are described. Also presented is the logic underlying the computation of the more commonly used test statistics in the area of hypothesis testing. Mathematical background is kept to a minimum. Abdulkader Aljandali, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Finance and Business Forecasting at Regent’s University London. He acts as a visiting professor at overseas institutions in Canada, France, and Morocco.Statistics and Econometrics for Finance,2199-0948StatisticsStatisticsQuantitative researchBusiness enterprisesFinanceSocial sciencesMathematicsStatistics in Business, Management, Economics, Finance, InsuranceStatistical Theory and MethodsData Analysis and Big DataCorporate FinanceMathematics in Business, Economics and FinanceStatistics.Statistics.Quantitative research.Business enterprisesFinance.Social sciencesMathematics.Statistics in Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance.Statistical Theory and Methods.Data Analysis and Big Data.Corporate Finance.Mathematics in Business, Economics and Finance.658.401Aljandali Abdulkaderauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut756048MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910150451103321Quantitative analysis and IBM® SPSS® statistics1523589UNINA03213nam 22005415 450 991048333140332120250610110205.09783030629458303062945710.1007/978-3-030-62945-8(CKB)4900000000508862(MiAaPQ)EBC6468501(DE-He213)978-3-030-62945-8(MiAaPQ)EBC29077913(EXLCZ)99490000000050886220210202d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAmbiguity and Film Criticism Reasonable Doubt /by Hoi Lun Law1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (190 pages) illustrationsPalgrave Close Readings in Film and Television,2634-61419783030629441 3030629449 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Rethinking Ambiguity -- Part One: Considering Context and Convention -- 1. Difficulty of Explanation: The Enigmatic Vase Shots in Late Spring -- 2. Perplexing Style: The Programmatic Editing Strategy of Ten -- 3. Appropriateness of Clarification: Analytical Découpage and the Reductive Viewpoint -- Part Two: Reading in Detail -- 4. Depth of Suggestion: The Demonstrative Gestures in In a Lonely Place -- 5. Uncertainty of Understanding: The Unsettling Direct Look in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- Part Three: Coming to a Close -- 6. Questioning Closure: The Inconclusive Final Moments of Force Majeur -- Concluding Remarks: Reason and Responsibility.This book defends an account of ambiguity which illuminates the aesthetic possibilities of film and the nature of film criticism. Ambiguity typically describes the condition of multiple meanings. But we can find multiple meanings in what appears unambiguous to us. So, what makes ambiguity ambiguous? This study argues that a sense of uncertainty is vital to the concept. Ambiguity is what presses us to inquire into our puzzlement over a movie, to persistently ask "why is it as it is?" Notably, this account of the concept is also an account of its criticism. It recognises that a satisfying assessment of what is ambiguous involves both our reason and doubt; that is, reason and doubt can work together in our practice of reading. This book, then, considers ambiguity as a form of reasonable doubt, one that invites us to reflect on our critical efforts, rethinking the operation of film criticism. .Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television,2634-6141Motion picturesClose Readings in Film and TVFilm TheoryMotion pictures.Close Readings in Film and TV.Film Theory.821.1791.43015Law Hoi Lun1228576MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910483331403321Ambiguity and film criticism2852251UNINA