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Enjoy these free chapters from some of our top titles at the Joint Statistics Meeting 2018!

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Chapter
1 - How the Rule of 72 Can Provide Guidance to Advance Your Wealth, Your Career, and Your Gas Mileage
from Section I - Thinking Like a Data Scientist
Howard Wainer
Book: Truth or Truthiness

Chapter
1 - The Data Sets
Jamie D. Riggs, Northwestern University, Illinois, Trent L. Lalonde, University of Northern Colorado
Book: Handbook for Applied Modeling: Non-Gaussian and Correlated Data

Chapter
1 - Poisson and Other Discrete Distributions
Günter Last, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, Mathew Penrose, University of Bath
Book: Lectures on the Poisson Process

Chapter
2 - Data Preparation
from Part One - Analysing Portfolio Mortality
Angus S. Macdonald, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Stephen J. Richards, Iain D. Currie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Book: Modelling Mortality with Actuarial Applications

Chapter
1 - Improving Homeland Security Decisions
- By Ali E. Abbas, Milind Tambe, Detlof von Winterfeldt
Edited by Ali E. Abbas, University of Southern California, Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, Detlof von Winterfeldt, University of Southern California
Book: Improving Homeland Security Decisions

Chapter
2 - The Curie–Weiss Model
Sacha Friedli, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Yvan Velenik, Université de Genève
Book: Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Systems

Chapter
1 - Why Prediction?
from Part I - The Predictive View
Bertrand S. Clarke, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Jennifer L. Clarke, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Book: Predictive Statistics

Chapter
1 - Algorithms and Inference
from Part I - Classic Statistical Inference
Bradley Efron, Stanford University, California, Trevor Hastie, Stanford University, California
Book: Computer Age Statistical Inference