A best-seller in its previous editions, "Scale Development: Theory and Applications, Third Edition" has been extensively updated and revised to address changes in the field and topics that have grown in importance. Widely adopted for graduate courses in departments such as Psychology, Public Health, Marketing, Nursing, and Education, this book will prove beneficial to applied r...(展开全部)

Written at an accessible level, "Scale Development, Second Edition" guides the reader toward the identification of the latent variable, the generation of an item pool, the format for measurement and the optimization of the scale length. Using exercises to illustrate the concepts, the text also includes advice about factor analytic strategies. For researchers tired of 'off-the-s...(展开全部)

An attempt to formulate common laws that apply to virtually every scientific field, this conceptual approach has had a profound impact on such widely diverse disciplines as biology, economics, psychology, and demography.

Revised Edition With a Foreword by Wolfgang Hofkirchner & David Rousseau

Jack Hirshleifer 是加州大学洛杉矶分校卓越经济学教授和名誉退休教授。在剑桥大学出版社出版著作《不确定性与信息分析》和《力量的黑暗面》。他是美国文理科学院和计量经济学会的会员，曾任西部经济学会的会长、美国经济学会的副会长，后者曾提名他为2000年的卓越会员。他曾供职于《美国经济评论》《经济行为与组织期刊》和《生物经济学期刊》的编辑部。 Amihai Glazer 是加州大学埃尔文分校经济学教授。曾在希伯来大学、卡内基梅隆大学和芬兰的坦佩雷大学任教，现在是《管治经济学》期刊的编辑。在学术期刊上发表过80多篇文章。 David Hirshleifer 是俄亥俄州立大学金融学教授。曾任教于UCLA的安德逊学院与密歇根大学的商学院。曾任美国金融学会理事，《金融研究评论》的编辑，以及其他一些金融学、经济学和公司战略期刊的副编辑。他的论文曾经获得《...(展开全部)

Jack Hirshleifer 是加州大学洛杉矶分校卓越经济学教授和名誉退休教授。在剑桥大学出版社出版著作《不确定性与信息分析》和《力量的黑暗面》。他是美国文理科学院和计量经济学会的会员，曾任西部经济学会的会长、美国经济学会的副会长，后者曾提名他为2000年的卓越会员。他曾供职于《美国经济评论》《经济行为与组织期刊》和《生物经济学期刊》的编辑部。 Amihai Glazer 是加州大学埃尔文分校经济学教授。曾在希伯来大学、卡内基梅隆大学和芬兰的坦佩雷大学任教，现在是《管治经济学》期刊的编辑。在学术期刊上发表过80多篇文章。 David Hirshleifer 是俄亥俄州立大学金融学教授。曾任教于UCLA的安德逊学院与密歇根大学的商学院。曾任美国金融学会理事，《金融研究评论》的编辑，以及其他一些金融学、经济学和公司战略期刊的副编辑。他的论文曾经获得《...(展开全部)

With a new evolutionary theme, Petri's book covers the biological, behavioral, and cognitive explanations for human motivation. The advantages and drawbacks to each of these explanations are presented, allowing students to draw their own conclusions. Students want to know why they behave the way they do. To help students understand the processes that activate their behavior, Pe...(展开全部)

With a new evolutionary theme, Petri's book covers the biological, behavioral, and cognitive explanations for human motivation. The advantages and drawbacks to each of these explanations are presented, allowing students to draw their own conclusions. Students want to know why they behave the way they do. To help students understand the processes that activate their behavior, Pe...(展开全部)

This upper-level undergraduate text provides an introduction to industrial organization theory along with applications and nontechnical analyses of the legal system and antitrust laws. Using the modern approach but without emphasizing the mathematical generality inherent in many of the arguments, it bridges the gap between existing nontheoretical texts written for undergraduate...(展开全部)

Text Mining: Applications and Theory presents the state-of-the-art algorithms for text mining from both the academic and industrial perspectives. The contributors span several countries and scientific domains: universities, industrial corporations, and government laboratories, and demonstrate the use of techniques from machine learning, knowledge discovery, natural language pr...(展开全部)