Stochastics

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications HYDRODYNAMIC BEHAVIOR AND INTERACTING PARTICLE SYSTEMS is in part the proceedings of a workshop which was an integral part of the 1985-86 IMA program on STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS.

The theory of time series models has been well developed over the last thirt,y years.

In this monograph we have considered a class of autoregressive models whose coefficients are random.

In this set of notes we study a notion of a random process assoc- ted with a point process.

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The 1990 Seminar on Stochastic Processes was held at the University of British Columbia from May 10 through May 12, 1990.

The first international conference on Probability in Banach Spaces was held at Oberwolfach, West Germany, in 1975.

This volume consists of about half of the papers presented during a three-day seminar on stochastic processes held at Northwestern University in March 1982.

Apart from new examples and exercises, some simplifications of proofs, minor improvements, and correction of typographical errors, the principal change from the first edition is the addition of section 9.

Graphical modelling is a form of multivariate analysis that uses graphs to represent models.

This book is concerned with numerical methods for stochastic control and optimal stochastic control problems.

It is thought as necessary to write a Preface before a Book, as it is judged civil, when you invite a Friend to Dinner, to proffer him a Glass of Hock beforehand for a Whet.

Two of the most fundamental concepts in the theory of stochastic processes are the Markov property and the martingale property.

This book is based on a course I have taught at Cornell University since 1965.

An English translation now joins the Russian and Spanish versions.

Probability theory is a branch of mathematics dealing with chance phenomena and has clearly discernible links with the real world.

Asymptotic analysis is an old subject that has found applications in vari- ous fields of pure and applied mathematics, physics and engineering.

Stochastic Finance: An Introduction with Market Examples presents an introduction to pricing and hedging in discrete and continuous time financial models without friction, emphasizing the complementarity of analytical and probabilistic methods.

This book aims to introduce readers without a strong mathematical background to the basic ideas of fuzzy set theory and logic.

Mathematicians often face the question to which extent mathematical models describe processes of the real world.

Branching processes form one of the classical fields of applied probability and are still an active area of research.

This volume celebrates the many contributions which Gopinath Kallianpur has made to probability and statistics.

Classical time series methods are based on the assumption that a particular stochastic process model generates the observed data.

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Since 1972 the Institute of Mathematics and the Committee of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences organize annually con- ferences on mathematical statistics in Wisla.

Ergodic theory is one of the few branches of mathematics which has changed radically during the last two decades.

A long time ago I started writing a book about Markov chains, Brownian motion, and diffusion.

Probability (including stochastic processes) is now being applied to virtually every academic discipline, especially to the sciences.

Experience gained during a ten-year long involvement in modelling, program- ming and application in nonlinear optimization helped me to arrive at the conclusion that in the interest of having successful applications and efficient software production, knowing the structure of the problem to be solved is in- dispensable.

Conditional Monte Carlo: Gradient Estimation and Optimization Applications deals with various gradient estimation techniques of perturbation analysis based on the use of conditional expectation.

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Optimization in Quality Control presents a broad survey of the state of the art in optimization in quality, and focuses on industrial and national competitiveness.

Aggregation plays a central role in many of the technological tasks we are faced with.

Applied Stochastic Models and Control for Finance and Insurance presents at an introductory level some essential stochastic models applied in economics, finance and insurance.

Sample-Path Analysis of Queueing Systems uses a deterministic (sample-path) approach to analyze stochastic systems, primarily queueing systems and more general input-output systems.

Driven by the request for increased productivity, flexibility, and competitiveness, modern civilization increasingly has created high-performance discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs).

Decision Science and Technology is a compilation of chapters written in honor of a remarkable man, Ward Edwards.

Decision Criteria and Optimal Inventory Processes provides a theoretical and practical introduction to decision criteria and inventory processes.

Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes is an edited work written in honor of Julien Keilson.

Strategies for Quasi-Monte Carlo builds a framework to design and analyze strategies for randomized quasi-Monte Carlo (RQMC).

Statistical methods are becoming more important in all biological fields of study.

The three decades which have followed the publication of Heinz Neudecker's seminal paper `Some Theorems on Matrix Differentiation with Special Reference to Kronecker Products' in the Journal of the American Statistical Association (1969) have witnessed the growing influence of matrix analysis in many scientific disciplines.

Computations with Markov Chains presents the edited and reviewed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Numerical Solution of Markov Chains, held January 16--18, 1995, in Raleigh, North Carolina.