San Antonio College Library

Current social and economic changes in Canada raise many questions: Will Canada's education system be able to maintain its competitiveness when faced with increasing globalization? Will the growing numbers of immigrants and their children be successfully integrated? How will Canada's social institutions respond to a rapidly aging population? The Changing Canadian Population assembles answers from many of Canada's most distinguished scholars, who reassess...

Provides a 3,000-year history of the census, chronicling the practices of the ancient world through the Supreme Court rulings of today, examining how censuses have been used as tools of democracy, exclusion and mass surveillance. In 2020, the United States will embark again on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a tradition of counting people that goes back...

The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called "sexy". And with good reason; from batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research, the real-world application of statistics is growing by leaps and bounds. In this book the author demystifies the study of statistics by stripping away the arcane and technical details to get at the underlying intuition that is key to understanding...

"How many people are imprisoned across the globe? What factors can help explain variations in the use of imprisonment in different countries? What ethical considerations should apply to the way imprisonment is used? Providing a comprehensive account of prison populations worldwide, this work links prison statistics from the last 15 years with considerations of how prisons and prison populations are managed. With commentary from its well-known, respected...

As the number of tests has increased, so has the pressing need for a single source of reference. Bringing together the hundred most commonly used tests, this volume provides just such an indispensable aid for student and statistician alike. An introduction discusses the principles of hypothesis-testing. Examples of the procedure for selected tests follow, illustrating statistical method in practice. The purpose of each test is summarized and a classification...

Contains aging-related population and housing data from the 1990 census, including sample data weighted to represent the total population, as well as 100% counts and unweighted sample counts for total persons and housing units. Data is arranged hierarchically by state down to the census tract/block numbering level.

Including: laws of Texas, receipts and expenditures of Texas, compendium of early history of Texas, commerce of Galveston, cotton trade of Texas, newspapers and post offices of Texas, Texas lands, land grants, land reverting to the state, statistics of all counties of Texas.