Probability, Statistics and Optimisation
A Tribute to Peter Whittle
F. P. Kelly(Editor)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 28. June 1994
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-0-471-94829-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chichester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 158 mm
Weight
980 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-94829-2 (9780471948292)
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Content
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.