This selection of essays pays tribute to the contribution of Peter Whittle to the fields of applied and statistical mathematics. The contributors present recent research developments in probability, statistics, time series analysis and optimization.
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Höhe: 235 mm
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978-0-471-94829-2 (9780471948292)
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Partial table of contents:; PROBABILITY; Probability Vicit Expectation (D. Stirzaker); The Random-Cluster Model (G. Grimmett); Fractal Dynamics of Eden Clusters (J. Hammersley); APPLIED PROBABILITY; Threshold Phenomena in Epidemic Theory (A. Barbour); On the Interaction of Unreliable Routes (I. Mitrani & P. Wright); Large Deviation and Fluid Approximations in Control of Stochastic Systems (R. Weber); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; The Whittle Likelihood and Frequency Estimation (E. Hannan); Comments on Prediction by Nonlinear Least-Square Methods (H. Tong); NEURAL NETS AND COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS; Network Methods in Statistics (B. Ripley); Monte-Carlo Likelihood in Genetic Analysis (E. Thompson); STATISTICS; How to Look at Objects in a 5-Dimensional Shape Space II: Looking at Diffusions (D. Kendall); Applications of Quadratic Programming in Statistics (B. Brown & C. Goodall); OPTIMISATION OF NETWORK FLOW; Optimisation of Flows in Networks Over Time (E. Anderson & A. Philpott); Optimal Routeing in Loss Networks (F. Kelly); OPTIMISATION OVER TIME; Indices on Thin Ice (J. Gittins); A New Formula for the Deviation Matrix (A. Hordijk & F. Spieksma); Index.