Bøger af Jeff Gill

Sarah wants to be a scientist who studies interesting and unusual animals but she has a big billowing problem... A picture book of interesting and unusual animals, an adventurous budding scientist and lots and lots of smoke. It will certainly become a bedtime favourite!

This book is a poem. But don't worry. It's not one of those frilly poems that say things like, 'my love is like a honey-dipped cloud of trembly ferns'. It's more like the poems that Dr Seuss and Roald Dahl wrote. It's a story. The star of the story is a boy who has some pretty terrible things happen to him. He literally falls to bits. (That's the way life goes sometimes.) Fortunately, some kind birds arrive to help him out. I'm not sure they know what they are doing though. I hope your life is nothing like this boy's life. Even though he does have a happy ending, he's got a rough journey to get there. If you have been unlucky like the boy, maybe his story will give you hope that you could have a happy ending too. And maybe there will be some kind finches along the way.

The third edition of this bestseller focuses more on implementation details of the procedures and less on justifying procedures. It includes new chapters on Bayesian decision theory and the practical implementation of MCMC methods using the BUGS software. It also expands the chapter on hierarchical models, presents many new applications from a variety of social science disciplines, and doubles the number of exercises. The author¿s website provides new datasets, code, and procedures for calling BUGS packages from R.

Taking a self-coaching approach, this book enablse you to understand how to navigate your way through the various challenges posed by PhD study with resilience, self-sufficiency, and the determination to succeed. It is packed with techniques, tips and tricks that are applicable to a range of circumstances both within the PhD process and beyond.