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  2. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest - Wikipedia

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    Chapter 7 deals with what Restall calls "The Myth of Superiority" — the belief that the success of the Spanish conquest was due to either the supposed technological superiority of the Spaniards or a kind of inherent cultural superiority — and that Spanish victory was therefore inevitable. Restall claims that such technological advantages as ...

  3. Matthew Restall - Wikipedia

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    Restall was born in a suburb of London, England, in 1964. He grew up in England, Denmark, Spain, Venezuela, Japan, and Hong Kong. But he was schooled in England from the age of 8, spending ten boarding-school years first at Marsh Court in Hampshire and then at Wellington College, before going on to receive a BA degree, First Class with Honors, in Modern History from Oxford University in 1986.

  4. Interrupted time series - Wikipedia

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    Interrupted time series design is the design of experiments based on the interrupted time series approach. The method is used in various areas of research, such as: political science : impact of changes in laws on the behavior of people; [ 2 ] (e.g., Effectiveness of sex offender registration policies in the United States )

  5. List of Very Short Introductions books - Wikipedia

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    The History of Time: Leofranc Holford-Strevens: 11 August 2005: History 134: Nationalism: Steven Grosby: 8 September 2005: Politics 135: The World Trade Organization: Amrita Narlikar: 8 September 2005: Economics/Politics 136: Design: John Heskett: 23 June 2005: Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life, 2002: Art 137: The Vikings: Julian D ...

  6. Quetzalcōātl - Wikipedia

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    However, a majority of Mesoamericanist scholars, such as Matthew Restall (2003, 2018 [37]), James Lockhart (1994), Susan D. Gillespie (1989), Camilla Townsend (2003a, 2003b), Louise Burkhart, Michel Graulich and Michael E. Smith (2003), among others, consider the "Quetzalcoatl/Cortés myth" as one of many myths about the Spanish conquest which ...

  7. Bayesian structural time series - Wikipedia

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    Bayesian structural time series (BSTS) model is a statistical technique used for feature selection, time series forecasting, nowcasting, inferring causal impact and other applications. The model is designed to work with time series data. The model has also promising application in the field of analytical marketing. In particular, it can be used ...

  8. 5 myths about Series I bonds: What to know before you buy - AOL

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    Here are the top five myths about Series I bonds.

  9. Makridakis Competitions - Wikipedia

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    The time series included yearly, quarterly, monthly, daily, and other time series. In order to ensure that enough data was available to develop an accurate forecasting model, minimum thresholds were set for the number of observations: 14 for yearly series, 16 for quarterly series, 48 for monthly series, and 60 for other series.