
Estimating and Choosing
An Essay on Probability in Practice
Georges Matheron(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 28. December 1988
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 141 pages
978-3-540-50087-2 (ISBN)
Description
Ever since the beginning of modern probability theory in the seventeenth century there has been a continuous debate over the meaning and applicability of the concept of probability. This book presents a coherent and well thoughtout framework for the use of probabilistic models to describe unique phenomena in a purely objective way. Although
Estimating and
Choosing
was written with geostatistical applications in mind, the approach is of general applicability across the whole spectrum of probabilistic modelling. The only full-fledged treatment of the foundations of practical probability modelling ever written, this book fills an important gap in the literature of probability and statistics.
More details
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen
IX, 141 p. 3 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-50087-2 (9783540500872)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-48817-7
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
I A Quest for Objectivity.- 0 Introduction.- 1 Monod and the Concept of Chance or How to Overstep the Limits of Objectivity.- 2 Why we do not Agree with the Etruscans or On the Objectivity of Probabilistic Models.- II Criteria of Internal Objectivity in the Case of Unique Phenomena.- 3 The Poisson Forest.- 4 Choice and Hierarchy of Models.- 5 Sorting Out.- III Operational Reconstruction.- 6 Global Models.- 7 Local Models.- 8 Is Conditional Expectation Operational?.