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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 R -- The R Console and R Scripts -- R Libraries -- Reading and Viewing Data in R -- Missing Data -- Variable and Data Set Types -- Descriptive Statistics and Graphics in R -- Summary -- 2 Theoretical Underpinnings of Regularization Methods -- The Need for Variable Selection Methods -- The Lasso Estimator -- The Ridge Estimator -- The Elastic Net Estimator -- The Adaptive Lasso -- The Group Lasso -- Bayesian Regularization -- Inference for Regularization Methods -- Summary -- 3 Regularization Methods for Linear Models -- Linear Regression -- Fitting Linear Regression Model with R -- Assessing Regression Assumptions Using R -- Variable Selection without Regularization -- Stepwise Regression -- Application of Stepwise Regression Using R -- Best Subsets Regression -- Application of Best Subsets Regression Using R -- Regularized Linear Regression -- Lasso Regression -- Ridge Regression -- Elastic Net Regression -- Bayesian Lasso Regression -- Bayesian Ridge Regression -- Adaptive Lasso Regression -- Group Lasso Regression -- Comparison of Modeling Approaches -- Summary -- 4 Regularization Methods for Generalized Linear Models -- Logistic Regression for Dichotomous Outcome -- Fitting Logistic Regression with R -- Regularization with Logistic Regression for Dichotomous Outcomes -- Logistic Regression with the Lasso Penalty -- Logistic Regression with the Ridge Penalty -- Penalized Logistic Regression with the Bayesian Estimator -- Adaptive Lasso for Dichotomous Logistic Regression -- Grouped Regularization for Dichotomous Logistic Regression -- Logistic Regression for Ordinal Outcome -- Regularized Ordinal Logistic Regression -- Regression Models for Count Data -- Regularized Count Regression -- Cox Proportional Hazards Model -- Regularized Cox Regression -- Summary.

"Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is the first textbook in literary urban studies (LUS). It illuminates and investigates this exciting field, which has grown since the humanities' 'spatial turn' of the 1990s and 2000s. The book introduces city literature, urban methods of reading, classics in LUS, and new directions in the field. It outlines the located qualities of literary narratives, texts and events through three units. First, the concept of the city and the main methods and terms needed as tools for investigating city literatures are introduced. A second section, ordered historically, shows how notions like pre-modern, realist, modernist, postcolonial and planetary actually work in nuanced explorations of actual writers, texts and places. Thirdly, the volume covers literary urban modes: fictional and non-fictional prose in multiple genres; poetry and the idea of the city; dramatic city representation and the theatre as urban place. Key categories of place explored are multiple: the sacred spaces of religion; entry points such as railway stations and junctions; residential areas such as the 'slum', suburb and mass housing district; hubs of publishing and performance; categories of city such as the port and resort. Each chapter aids reference and learning via structured highlighting, reflection questions and tasks labelled 'Research It'. Some 'Research It' tasks enable readers to enter new areas of LUS including by engaging with neighbouring disciplines like human geography, cultural history, sociology, and urban studies. Others equip readers by sharpening particular skills of writing or documentation. A thorough glossary of key terms and concepts aids the reader. Literary Urban Studies and How to Practice It is designed for application to literatures and cities in any period and part of the world. Armed with it, humanities researchers at any career stage can develop their interdisciplinary skills and ability to participate in activism and public debates while becoming specialised in LUS. The book is a gateway to practicing LUS and spatial literary research"--

This book presents a self-corrective and contemporary system of philosophy and attempts to explain how we might go about forming our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves, our world and how we should properly conduct ourselves in a justifiable and non-arbitrary fashion.

"Emerging markets are an increasingly important area of corporate strategy and fast becoming the driver of global growth. Today, emerging markets account for 40% of global GDP and are experiencing growth rates two or three times faster than developed economies. Not surprisingly, investment activity in emerging market jurisdictions has been frenetic with developed-world firms having invested more than $3 trillion, making it one of the biggest corporate investment cycles since the railway boom of the 19th century. Emerging Markets and Sovereign Risk provides case studies, commentary and analysis of investment and financial aspects of emerging market investment from international experts inside Standard & Poor's, Moody's, global investment funds, corporations and academia, and covers keys issues such as credit rating agencies and the rating process, risk assessment and pricing of sovereign debt, challenges related to foreign direct investment in emerging countries, capital flows in frontier, emerging and less-mature economies, structuring debt and equity investments in 'non-investment grade' countries, key value drivers in emerging market asset classes, sovereign wealth funds and emerging market investment, and considerations in the management of sovereign credit ratings"--

"Emerging markets are an increasingly important area of corporate strategy and fast becoming the driver of global growth. Today, emerging markets account for 40% of global GDP and are experiencing growth rates two or three times faster than developed economies. Not surprisingly, investment activity in emerging market jurisdictions has been frenetic with developed-world firms having invested more than $3 trillion, making it one of the biggest corporate investment cycles since the railway boom of the 19th century. Emerging Markets and Sovereign Risk provides case studies, commentary and analysis of investment and financial aspects of emerging market investment from international experts inside Standard & Poor's, Moody's, global investment funds, corporations and academia, and covers keys issues such as credit rating agencies and the rating process, risk assessment and pricing of sovereign debt, challenges related to foreign direct investment in emerging countries, capital flows in frontier, emerging and less-mature economies, structuring debt and equity investments in 'non-investment grade' countries, key value drivers in emerging market asset classes, sovereign wealth funds and emerging market investment, and considerations in the management of sovereign credit ratings"--

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