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Brothers California Los Angeles Drama California Los Angeles Criminal investigation Criminal investigation California Los Angeles Drama Probability Probability measures Probability measures Drama Statistics United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Drama United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Summary: FBI agent Don and his mathematical genius brother, Charlie, work together to solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very distinct perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: Drama about an FBI agent who recruits his mathematical-genius brother to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from a very distinctive perspective. Inspired by actual events, the series depicts how the confluence of police work and mathematics provides unexpected revelations and answers to the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: FBI Special Agent Don Eppes recruits his mathematically gifted brother, Charlie, to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. Don is assisted by fellow agents Megan Reeves, David Sinclair, and Colby Granger, while Charlie finds insight and encouragement from a co-worker, Dr. Larry Fleinhardt, and Amita Ramanujan, Charlie's former grad student.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: FBI Special Agent Don Eppes recruits his mathematically gifted brother, Charlie, to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. Don is assisted by fellow agents Megan Reeves, David Sinclair, and Colby Granger, while Charlie finds insight and encouragement from a co-worker, Dr. Larry Fleinhardt, and Amita Ramnjuan, Charlie's former grad student.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: FBI agent Don Eppes couldn't be more different from his younger brother, Charlie, a brilliant math professor at a California university. Don deals in hard facts and evidence, Charlie thrives in a world of mathematical probability and equations. Don and Charlie often combine their areas of expertise to solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NUMSummary: Beginning with an explanation of the difference between "qualitative" and "quantitative" data, this program goes on to explain various ways of presenting data, including Dot Plots, Bar Charts, and Histograms. The program also explains Summary Measures, Characteristic Values, and how to arrive at the Mode, Median, and Mean, with a discussion of their individual drawbacks and advantages. The...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this program, grumpy old men and competitive statistics students serve as samples for working with two more types of numerical representation: variability and relative standing. Section one wrestles with range, deviation, variance, and standard deviation in detail and tackles the Empirical Rule, while section two dives into Z-scores, outliers, and percentiles.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this historical reenactment, Florence Nightingale uses applied statistics to disprove the medical assumptions of her day. Using fatality counts from the Crimean War, Nightingale develops a progressive series of statistical diagrams that reveal startling information: most soldiers did not die of their wounds, as reported, but in army hospitals, from diseases related to poor hygiene. When...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This program examines the measurement of blood pressure to introduce the idea that multiple measurements may produce very variable results. The idea that measurement "errors," together with fluctuations in the parameters being measured, create variability is followed by an explanation of both Systematic and Random Error and the recognition of the need for statistical techniques to handle this...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A knowledge of graphing is essential to visualizing data-and sometimes leads to free nachos. Moving beyond the relative frequency histogram, this program studies the distribution curve and the stem-and-leaf display. Then, after distinguishing between statistics and parameters, the program thoroughly investigates measures of central tendency: the mean of samples and populations, the median, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this program, an evil genius named Emily and other experts reveal two more probability distributions for discrete random variables. First, the Poisson approximation to the binomial and its use in the Poisson Probability Formula are spotlighted, along with the natural logarithm constant. Then, the Urn Model is appraised, in which sampling both with and without replacement is demonstrated.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program begins with an explanation of the difference between a Population and a Sample, and the reasons why samples are so important in estimating data relating to populations too large or too impractical to be measured in their entirety. The program emphasizes the need for random samples, explains how several random samples of the same size will vary, and then looks at ways of dealing...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In the spirit of a famous rhetorical question, this program explores the world of scientific measurement at the molecular and atomic level. Host Alan Davies tries to establish the length of a piece of household string-but what appears to be a simple task soon turns into a mind-bending voyage of discovery. After discussing the matter with leading mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, Davies learns...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: After concisely defining the purpose of statistics, section one of this program uses Five-Card Charlie's Fuzzy Dice Cola to examine the concepts of population and sampling and to catalogue the elements of statistical problems. In section two, data derived from the National Martyr Competition provides an opportunity to set up a relative frequency histogram, which involves classes and their...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Using examples drawn from a number of sources-including "Statisticalisimo," the game show of statistics-this program outlines the properties of a normal probability distribution and takes a look at the mean, the standard deviation, the Z-score, and the Z-score table. The properties of a uniform distribution are enumerated as well, along with how to calculate the mean and the standard deviation....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Operating on the premise that the physical world can be described by mathematical relationships, this program uses a simple yet powerful series of experiments to study a specific physical phenomenon-the motion of a steel spring. Viewers learn how to construct equations involving dependent variables, independent variables, and known constants in order to predict and measure acceleration and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In this program, a helpful bunch of bullies comes to grips with and alternate hypotheses, the significance level, the test statistic, acceptance and rejection regions, one- and two-tailed tests, and Type I and Type II errors. The essentials of dealing with small samples-including t-distribution, the t-Value Formula, and degrees of freedom-are also tackled.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: What are the odds that a casino card dealer and a pair of Simon and Garfunkel wannabes know something about probability? This program begins by defining probability and sampling, experiments, simple and compound events, and sample space. Next, the formula for finding probability is analyzed, along with the composition of simple and compound events, mutually exclusive events, and complements of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Maternity Glenda is expecting twins. What, then, is the expected number of female babies? After distinguishing between qualitative and quantitative random variables, this program considers the relationship between probability distributions and histograms, distribution curves, little x and big X, and expected values. Deviation, variance, and standard deviation for probability distributions are...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: In this program, data derived from a bully convention helps illustrate how statisticians ensure statistical reliability. After describing reliability testing, the mean of a sampling distribution, the Central Limit Theorem, and the standard error of the mean, the focus shifts to point and interval estimators. The subject of confidence intervals-including confidence coefficients, errors of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: What is the binomial probability that Mickey, a lounge lizard, will get a phone number? After presenting the five characteristics of binomial probability distribution and explaining the binomial probability formula-including a review of factorials-this program examines the mean, deviation, variation, and standard deviation of a binomial probability distribution.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program demonstrates how "qualitative" bivariate data can be visualized by using a modification of the simple Bar Chart. Quantitative data is dealt with by developing the Dot Plot into the Scatter Diagram, which allows any correlation to show itself in a linear relation. The program explains how this correlation can be modeled by calculating a "Line of Best Fit," how to calculate 95%...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Hand, D. J. (David J.)
Summary: "An eye-opening and engrossing look at rare moments, why they occur, and how they shape our world In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand unveils his groundbreaking argument that extraordinarily rare events are in fact commonplace. Weaving together fascinating new ways to think about chance, Hand highlights his "law of near enough," the "look elsewhere effect,"...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 519.2 HANSeife, Charles.
Summary: "The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world Digital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control--even when that information is actually a lie. In Virtual Unreality, Charles Seife uses the skepticism, wit, and sharp facility for analysis...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014