David Fletcher is a historian at the Tank Museum in Bovington, renowned for his extensive body of work on British armor. His writing delves deeply into the historical and technical aspects of military vehicles, offering readers a thorough understanding of armored warfare evolution. Fletcher's meticulous research and specialized knowledge establish him as a leading authority on British military history.
This fascinating and well-researched story of the design and production of the first British tanks begins with schemes hatched in the mid-19th century and continues through these military vehicles' baptism by fire on the muddy fields of World War I. Illustrated with archival photographs from the Tank Museum in Bovington, England.
"The first Rolls-Royce armoured car was a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun and a limited amount of armour plate at a dockyard in France. It was used by a squadron of the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914. Backed by First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill more and better versions followed until, by 1915 there were about 100 of them which were then handed over to the Army. 'They searched the world for War' as Sir Albert Stern said of them and before long there were Rolls-Royce armoured cars operating as far apart as German South West Africa, the Western Desert, Gallipoli, all over the Middle East and the north west frontier of India..."--Publisher's description
This book provides a concise and accessible overview of model averaging, with a focus on applications. Model averaging is a common means of allowing for model uncertainty when analysing data, and has been used in a wide range of application areas, such as ecology, econometrics, meteorology and pharmacology. The book presents an overview of the methods developed in this area, illustrating many of them with examples from the life sciences involving real-world data. It also includes an extensive list of references and suggestions for further research. Further, it clearly demonstrates the links between the methods developed in statistics, econometrics and machine learning, as well as the connection between the Bayesian and frequentist approaches to model averaging. The book appeals to statisticians and scientists interested in what methods are available, how they differ and what is known about their properties. It is assumed that readers are familiar with the basic concepts of statistical theory and modelling, including probability, likelihood and generalized linear models.
This book is simply a collection of 366 original ribald limericks.
Neither Brian nor Sandra knew whether there was a longer palindrome than 'a man a plan a canal Panama', but they did know that the country in this palindrome was well worth a visit. Not only did it house a whole treasure- house of wildlife riches, but it also had that extremely well-known canal.
The idea of British soldiers using American tanks was not viewed with a great deal of enthusiasm by the British Army. They perceived American tanks as being crudely made, mechanically unsophisticated and impossible to fight in. However, once British crews got used to them and learned to cope with some of their difficulties, such as limited fuel capacity and unfamiliar fighting techniques, they started to see them in a far more positive light, in particular their innate reliability and simplicity of maintenance. This book, the last in a three-part series on British Battle Tanks by armour expert David Fletcher, concentrates on World War II and studies American tanks in British service, some of which were modified in ways peculiar to the British. It shows how the number of these tanks increased to the point that they virtually dominated, as well describing some types, such as the T14 and M26 Pershing, which were supplied but never used in British service
This book is the autobiography of one of the Baby Boomer generation of individuals who now stand accused of all manner of heinous crimes, including ruining the world and generally enjoying themselves in the process.
Despite Brian's longstanding aversion to cruises, there was no way he could pass up the opportunity to join an `expedition cruise' to Melanesia. After all, this little known corner of the Pacific Ocean included any number of delectable destinations, not least the myriad islands that made up New Caledonia, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands.
In the frequentist framework, a quasi-likelihood approach has long been used as a means of allowing for overdispersion, a common occurrence in many areas of scientific research. An alternative approach is to improve models by including random effects that account for the extra variability. This book describes both approaches in detail and compares them in terms of the numerical differences for each data set, using several examples involving real data. Additionally, their performance is assessed by simulations based on examples.