
Perspectives In Mathematical Science I: Probability And Statistics
Probability and Statistics
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published on 7. July 2009
Book
Hardback
284 pages
978-981-4273-62-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a collection of invited articles by distinguished probabilists and statisticians on the occasion of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the Indian Statistical Institute - a notable institute with significant achievement in research areas of statistics, probability and mathematics - in 2007.With a wide coverage of topics in probability and statistics, the articles provide a current perspective of different areas of research, emphasizing the major challenging issues. The book also proves its reference and utility value for practitioners as the articles in Statistics contain applications of the methodology that will be of use to practitioners. To professional statisticians and mathematicians, this is a unique volume for its illuminating perspectives on several important aspects of probability and statistics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional statisticians and mathematicians.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
566 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-4273-62-6 (9789814273626)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
Indian Statistical Inst, India
Indian Statistical Inst, India
Indian Statistical Inst, India
Indian Statistical Inst, India
Content
Entropy and Martingale (K B Athreya & M G Nadkarni); Marginal Quantiles: Asymptotics for Functions of Order Statistics (J Babu); Statistics on Manifolds with Applications to Shape Spaces (R Bhattacharya & A Bhattacharya); Reinforcement Learning - A Bridge Between Numerical Methods and Monte Carlo (V S Borkar); Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Multiple Testing (S Ghosal & A Roy); Higher Criticism in the Context of Unknown Distribution, Non-Independence and Classification (P Hall); Bayesian Inference on Mixtures of Distributions (K Lee et al.); Markov Processes Generated by Random Iterates of Monotone Maps: Theory and Applications (M Majumdar); An Invitation to Quantum Information Theory (K R Parthasarathy); On the Classification of Binary Shifts on the Hyperfinite II1 Factor (G L Price); Scaling Limit (S R S Varadhan).