For social scientists, it is often confusing how to determine when missing data is a problem in analyses and how to handle it. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the available methods, focusing on which method should be used for specific problems. It features numerous real and simulated data examples to illustrate how the methods can be applied once the appropriate technique has been determined. It also includes exercises, computer-based problems, and suggestions for further reading. R code and the data sets are available on the book¿s website.

Jonathan Morduch and Timothy Ogden define the fundamental components of finance and explain in straightforward language how the lack of financial inclusion reinforces broader inequities in our society. The book answers core questions: What is financial inclusion? Why does it matter? How does it work? When doesn't it work? What are the risks?

Owing to its massive state sector, public procurement in China is a critical element of public policy. This book examines China's public procurement regime since the launching of market-oriented reform in 1978. It provides a detailed picture of the legal framework, assessing the impact of key legislative measures.

Emphasizing the finite difference approach for solving differential equations, this revised and updated edition presents a methodology for systematically constructing individual computer programs. The text provides accessible, accurate solutions to complex scientific and engineering problems. Each chapter includes objectives, a discussion of a representative application, and an outline of special features. Chapters conclude with a list of tasks students should be able to complete after reading the chapter-perfect for use as a study guide or for review. In addition, all computer code has been updated to reflect Fortran 95/2003.

With expanded sections and added photographs and illustrations, this second edition reference demonstrates and explains many neuropathologic findings to help investigators of sudden and unexpected death integrate their own findings into the total case context. This new edition features more in-depth discussion of the subject matter, atlas photos, expanded discussion of natural disease topics, new sections on how and why to examine the central nervous system, and new information on normal human neuroanatomy. With more photomicrographs included to aid in histopathology, this book includes 300 new images among its 750 color photographs.

This book presents the historical, legal, and social aspects of female criminals and their offenses. It focuses mainly on the United States but also discusses female criminality around the world. It explores the treatment and experiences of female criminals within the context of the social, legal, and criminal justice systems in which they operate. Chapters highlight sociodemographic characteristics, explore myth and legends about notorious female criminals, and discuss the impact of drugs on criminality. The book also discusses gender-specific crimes, and issues related to apprehension and processing.

This book introduces factor analysis methods for the study of multivariate stochastic processes whose structure evolves over time. It introduces the theory of factor analysis and evolutionary stochastic processes and combines that to study evolutionary factor models. The book includes many real examples to illustrate applications from such fields as macroeconomics, finance, neuroscience, communication, and psychology. MATLAB® and R code is included throughout the book for implementation of the methods.

Provides a comprehensive methodological overview of systems analysis (modelling/simulation/quantitative analysis) of livestock systems. It places the method of systems analysis into the epistemological context of livestock science.

Accelerated life tests (ALTs) have become an indispensable tool for reliability engineers to quantify a product's reliability, and for product managers to make product release decisions. However, there are many common misuses of ALTs and misinterpretations of their results. This book provides a framework for the proper design and analysis of ALTs. It compares ALTs with other industrial testing experiments, and provides guidance on their appropriate application. It features lots of examples using real data from industrial experiments, and provides statistical software for their implementation. It can be used as a textbook for students of reliability, or as a reference for practitioners

A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.

This book provides teachers with the means to measure students' non-academic development in areas such as teamwork and reasoning.

Hospitality in the Hebrew Bible is an investigation of the key hospitality texts and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, such as Abraham's visitors in Mamre in Genesis 18, Lot's visitors in Sodom in Genesis 19, and the partly parallel story of the traveling Levite and his pilegesh in Judges 19. She also includes hospitality scenes with female protagonists, such as Jael in Judges 4, Rahab in Joshua 2, and Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly in Proverbs 9. Gudme applies a historical anthropological approach to these texts as she analyses hospitality in light of classical anthropological themes such as reciprocity, commensality, honor and shame, and patronage structures. The anthropological analysis is supplemented by an intersectional perspective that considers hospitality alongside socio-cultural aspects such as configurations of masculinity, gender roles, and household hierarchies. Gudme offers a critical and systematic overview of hospitality in the Hebrew bible, including the 'dark sides' of hospitality such as deceit, rape, violence, and murder. Her analysis reveals a complex web of socio-cultural values, in which hospitality is sometimes presented as an ultimate and universal value, sometimes merely as nice-to-have and secondary to other socio-cultural concerns. In all instances, however, hospitality is a recognizable type-scene and as such an ideal backdrop for telling tales, both exemplary and horrific, and an ideal literary tool to characterize both people and deities.