John Fox

" II The train slackened speed and stopped. There was his horse-Raincrow-and his buggy waiting for him when he stepped from the platform; and, as he went forward with his fishing tackle, a livery-stable boy sprang out of the buggy and went to the horse's head. "Bob lef' yo' hoss in town las' night, Mistuh Crittenden," he said. "Miss Rachel said yestiddy she jes knowed you was comin' home this mornin'." Crittenden smiled-it was one of his mother's premonitions; she seemed always to know when he was coming home. "Come get these things," he said, and went on with his paper. "Yessuh " Things had gone swiftly while he was in the hills. Old ex-Confederates were answering the call from the Capitol. One of his father's old comrades-little Jerry Carter-was to be made a major-general. Among the regulars mobilizing at Chickamauga was the regiment to which Rivers, a ...]."

War correspondent and Kentucky native John Fox Jr. spent years traveling the globe and reporting on far-flung foreign conflicts before returning his focus to fiction and chronicling his native region. The Last Stetson tells the story of a decades-long family feud between two warring Southern clans and its surprising denouement.

Combining a modern, data-analytic perspective with a focus on applications in the social sciences, the Third Edition of Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models provides in-depth coverage of regression analysis, generalized linear models, and closely related methods, such as bootstrapping and missing data. Updated throughout, this Third Edition includes new chapters on mixed-effects models for hierarchical and longitudinal data. Although the text is largely accessible to readers with a modest background in statistics and mathematics, author John Fox also presents more advanced material in optional sections and chapters throughout the book. Accompanying website resources containing all answers to the end-of-chapter exercises. Answers to odd-numbered questions, as well as datasets and other student resources are available on the author's website. NEW! Bonus chapter on Bayesian Estimation of Regression Models also available at the author's website.