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Contains the following type of materials: memoir.

Experimental work is concerned with the study of a response function N = E(y) = f(x, o) where x are the levels of k variables and o is a set of p parameters. The objective is usually to check the adequacy of the assumed functional form, to estimate the values of the parameters o and hence the response E(y) at any chosen x, and to obtain easures of precision for the estimates. In the present investigation, the errors in the y's are at least approximately normally and independently distributed with constant variance, and concentration is on finding transformations in the x's to reduce the function in these transformed variables to as simple a form as possible. Although not limited to this application, the method is perhaps of most general use when the true form f(x, o) of the response function is unknown. This is represented by a graduating function. (Author).

Explores the depths of Earth's oceans to discover a long-hidden world of alien creatures, vanished civilizations, and lost ships, and describes the new technologies that make such expeditions possible.

The book presents a novel defense of the beneficial epistemic effect that extra logical features can have on the assessment of religious arguments.