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12. Newspaper Articles By and About Cummings and His Family
Get PDFThe Cummings collection includes some 120 newspaper clippings by and about Cummings and his family; many of Cummings\u27 pieces are short poems published as Corner Couplets or maxims from Josh Hayseed. All of the clippings are posted here as a single PDF; additional information is provided in the User Guide.https://mds.marshall.edu/cummings_melvillehomer/1003/thumbnail.jp
The Meaning of Love - Second Edition
No full textThis book explores the philosophical views on the meaning of love. The text explores a variety of topics used to define love/ including attraction/ relationship satisfaction/ emotional/ and ethical considerations. The author takes a rational/ logical/ analytic/ and scrutinizing look at experiences and other forms of literature on the subject of love.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1452/thumbnail.jp
Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective - Second Edition
No full textThis textbook introduces the idea of lifespan development from a psychological perspective.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1466/thumbnail.jp
Introductory Statistics with Randomization and Simulation - First Edition
No full textWe hope readers will take away three ideas from this book in addition to forming a foundation of statistical thinking and methods. (1) Statistics is an applied field with a wide range of practical applications. (2) You don\u27t have to be a math guru to learn from interesting/ real data. (3) Data are messy/ and statistical tools are imperfect. However/ when you understand the strengths and weaknesses of these tools/ you can use them to learn interesting things about the world. Textbook overview The chapters of this book are as follows: 1. Introduction to data. Data structures/ variables/ summaries/ graphics/ and basic data collection techniques. 2. Foundations for inference. Case studies are used to introduce the ideas of statistical inference with randomization and simulations. The content leads into the standard parametric framework/ with techniques reinforced in the subsequent chapters.1 It is also possible to begin with this chapter and introduce tools from Chapter 1 as they are needed. 3. Inference for categorical data. Inference for proportions using the normal and chi-square distributions/ as well as simulation and randomization techniques. 4. Inference for numerical data. Inference for one or two sample means using the t distribution/ and also comparisons of many means using ANOVA. A special section for bootstrapping is provided at the end of the chapter. 5. Introduction to linear regression. An introduction to regression with two variables. Most of this chapter could be covered immediately after Chapter 1. 6. Multiple and logistic regression. An introduction to multiple regression and logistic regression for an accelerated course. Appendix A. Probability. An introduction to probability is provided as an optional reference. Exercises and additional probability content may be found in Chapter 2 of OpenIntro Statistics at openintro.org. Instructor feedback suggests that probability/ if discussed/ is best introduced at the very start or very end of the course.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1475/thumbnail.jp
Advanced High School Statistics - 2nd Edition
No full textWe hope readers will take away three ideas from this book in addition to forming a foundationof statistical thinking and methods. (1) Statistics is an applied field with a wide range of practical applications. (2) You don\u27t have to be a math guru to learn from real/ interesting data. (3) Data are messy/ and statistical tools are imperfect. But/ when you understand the strengths and weaknesses of these tools/ you can use them to learn about the real world. Textbook overviewThe chapters of this book are as follows: 1. Data collection. Data structures/ variables/ and basic data collection techniques. 2. Summarizing data. Data summaries and graphics. 3. Probability. The basic principles of probability. 4. Distributions of random variables. Introduction to key distributions/ and how the normal model applies to the sample mean and sample proportion. 5. Foundation for inference. General ideas for statistical inference in the context of estimating the population proportion. 6. Inference for categorical data. Inference for proportions using the normal and chisquare distributions. 7. Inference for numerical data. Inference for one or two sample means using the t distribution/ and comparisons of many means using ANOVA. 8. Introduction to linear regression. An introduction to regression with two variables. Instructions are also provided in several sections for using Casio and TI calculators.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1477/thumbnail.jp
Learning Statistics with R: A tutorial for psychology students and other beginners
No full textLearning Statistics with R covers the contents of an introductory statistics class/ as typically taught to undergraduate psychology students/ focusing on the use of the R statistical software. The book discusses how to get started in R as well as giving an introduction to data manipulation and writing scripts. From a statistical perspective/ the book discusses descriptive statistics and graphing first/ followed by chapters on probability theory/ sampling and estimation/ and null hypothesis testing. After introducing the theory/ the book covers the analysis of contingency tables/ t-tests/ ANOVAs and regression. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1484/thumbnail.jp
Intermediate Biblical Greek Reader: Galatians and Related Texts
No full textAfter completing basic biblical Greek/ students are often eager to continue to learn and strengthen their skills of translation and interpretation. This intermediate graded reader is designed to meet those needs. The reader is “intermediate” in the sense that it presumes the user will have already learned the basics of Greek grammar and syntax and has memorized Greek vocabulary words that appear frequently in the New Testament. The reader is “graded” in the sense that it moves from simpler translation work (Galatians) towards more advanced readings from the book of James/ the Septuagint/ and from one of the Church Fathers. In each reading lesson/ the Greek text is given/ followed by supplemental notes that offer help with vocabulary/ challenging word forms/ and syntax. Discussion questions are also included to foster group conversation and engagement. There are many good Greek readers in existence/ but this reader differs from most others in a few important ways. Most readers offer text selections from different parts of the Bible/ but in this reader the user works through one entire book (Galatians). All subsequent lessons/ then/ build off of this interaction with Galatians through short readings that are in some way related to Galatians. The Septuagint passages in the reader offer some broader context for texts that Paul quotes explicitly from the Septuagint. The Patristic reading from John Chrysystom comes from one of his homilies on Galatians. This approach to a Greek reader allows for both variety and coherence in the learning process. This reader is a collaborative project that developed out of an advanced Greek course at Portland Seminary (2017-2018). The following students contributed equally to the content of the textbook. Alexander Finkelson (MATS/ Portland Seminary/ 2018) Bryn Pliska Girard (MATS/ Portland Seminary/ 2018) Charles E. R. Jesch (MDIV/ Portland Seminary/ current student) Paul C. Moldovan (MDIV/ Portland Seminary/ current student) Jenny E. Siefken (MATS/ Portland Seminary/ current student) Julianna Kaye Smith (MATS/ Portland Seminary/ 2018) Jana Whitworth (MDIV/ Portland Seminary/ current student) Kyle J. Williams (MATS/ Portland Seminary/ 2018)https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1509/thumbnail.jp
Sons & Lettres: A pronunciation method for intermediate-level French
No full textSons et lettres provides a set of classroom materials to train students to hear and produce the sounds of French and to recognize the regular spellings used to represent those sounds in print. The materials are inspired by a desire to help students feel more confident about their French pronunciation and more at home saying the many French words/ familiar and unfamiliar/ which they encounter in their studies/ in French media and in their travels. In our experience/ students are not given sufficient preparation to successfully decipher and pronounce French words. These materials are intended to fill that gap and to clear away the confusion that English speakers often feel when they see French words with seemingly mysterious combinations of letters.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1521/thumbnail.jp
A grammar of Yakkha
No full textThis grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha/ a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14/000 speakers in eastern Nepal/ in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community. Its primary source of data is a corpus of 13/000 clauses from narratives and naturally-occurring social interaction which the author recorded and transcribed between 2009 and 2012. Corpus analyses were complemented by targeted elicitation. The grammar is written in a functional-typological framework. It focusses on morphosyntactic and semantic issues/ as these present highly complex and comparatively under-researched fields in Kiranti languages. The sequence of the chapters follows the well-established order of phonological/ morphological/ syntactic and discourse-structural descriptions. These are supplemented by a historical and sociolinguistic introduction as well as an analysis of the complex kinship terminology. Topics such as verbal person marking/ argument structure/ transitivity/ complex predication/ grammatical relations/ clause linkage/ nominalization/ and the topography-based orientation system have received in-depth treatment. Wherever possible/ the structures found were explained in a historical-comparative perspective in order to shed more light on how their particular properties have emerged.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1544/thumbnail.jp