Anthropology has always involved men talking to men about men, yet until fairly recently
very few within the discipline had truly examined men as men. This chapter explores how …

Bayesian inference plays an important role in phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, and in
many other branches of science. It provides a principled framework for dealing with uncertainty …

The cause, incidence, and prevention of trauma to teeth are highlighted from a contemporary
aspect. Causative factors have become more diverse, and the incidence of trauma has …

• John W. Creswell Vicki L. Plano Clark Michelle L. Gutmann William E. Hanson ne approach
to learning about mixed methods research designs is to begin with a mixed methods study …

We live life in the network. We check our e-mails regularly, make mobile phone calls from
almost any location, swipe transit cards to use public transportation, and make purchases with …

… For his steady faith, my particular gratitude to my grandfather James Gutmann. I also want
to thank my wife, Michelle McKenzie, who shares unequivocally my delight in anthropology’s …

We present a new estimation principle for parameterized statistical models. The idea is to
perform nonlinear logistic regression to discriminate between the observed data and some …

Hypothesized that actions taken to reduce health risks are guided by the actor's subjective or
common-sense constructions of the health threat and that illness threats are represented by …

Context It is uncertain whether intensified heart failure therapy guided by N-terminal brain
natriuretic peptide (BNP) is superior to symptom-guided therapy. Objective To compare 18-…

We consider the task of estimating, from observed data, a probabilistic model that is parameterized
by a finite number of parameters. In particular, we are considering the situation where …