Applied multivariate statistical analysis

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H.H. Andersen ... [et al

In the last decade, graphical models have become increasingly popular as a statistical tool. This book is the first which provides an account of graphical models for multivariate complex normal distributions. Beginning with an introduction to the multivariate complex normal distribution, the authors develop the marginal and conditional distributions of random vectors and matrices. Then they introduce complex MANOVA models and parameter estimation and hypothesis testing for these models. After introducing undirected graphs, they then develop the theory of complex normal graphical models including the maximum likelihood estimation of the concentration matrix and hypothesis testing of conditional independence.

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Carolee Brockmann

Feeling abandoned by her parents and her best friend, sixth grader Jenna worries that her severe stage fright will spoil her performance at a flute competition--until she gets to know a class misfit who is a good musician and an even better friend.

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Bart Moeyaert

In three episodic scenes of their family life, a fifteen-year-old girl describes the troubled interrelationships, alternating between love and hate, between herself and her siblings and their self-absorbed, neglectful, and often absent mother.

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Keiko Maeo

Marie, une petite fille à la robe rouge, fait tout par cent. Elle lit cent livres, boit cent tasses de lait et mange cent glaces. Elle prête attention à chaque objet, à chaque geste, à chaque moment car chaque chose est unique. L'enfant est invité à se plonger dans de grandes illustrations où chaque chose apparaît cent fois avec d'infimes variations.