Probability and statistics

Written by two top statisticians with experience in teaching matrix methods for applications in statistics, econometrics and related areas, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of the latest techniques in matrix algebra.

Much of our thinking is flawed because it is based on faulty intuition.

This volume consists of invited lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "e;The Gamma Ray Sky with COMPTON GRO and SIGMA"e; , which was held at the Centre de Physique Theorique of Les Houches (France) in January / February 1994.

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich vor allem an Studierende der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften.

Statistics is a subject with a vast field of application, involving problems which vary widely in their character and complexity.

One of the most important problems in designing an experiment or a survey is sample size determination and this book presents the currently available methodology.

This is a concise, easy to use, step-by-step guide for applied researchers conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) using SPSS.

Modern Statistical Methodology and Software for Analyzing Spatial Point PatternsSpatial Point Patterns: Methodology and Applications with R shows scientific researchers and applied statisticians from a wide range of fields how to analyze their spatial point pattern data.

This is a text in methods of applied statistics for researchers who design and conduct experiments, perform statistical inference, and write technical reports.

The theory of the measure of noncompactness has proved its significance in various contexts, particularly in the study of fixed point theory, differential equations, functional equations, integral and integrodifferential equations, optimization, and others.

Large area sky surveys are now a reality in the radio, IR, optical and X-ray passbands.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the field of outlier analysis from a computer science point of view.

Every financial professional wants and needs an advantage.

An important activity for an organization's leaders and managers is making decisions associated with problem-solving.

This book is written for the Six Sigma Black Belt who needs an understanding of many statistical methods but does not use all of these methods every day.

Statistical disclosure control is the discipline that deals with producing statistical data that are safe enough to be released to external researchers.

Age, Period and Cohort Effects: Statistical Analysis and the Identification Problem gives a number of perspectives from top methodologists and applied researchers on the best ways to attempt to answer Age-Period-Cohort related questions about society.

Quasi-Monte Carlo methods have become an increasingly popular alternative to Monte Carlo methods over the last two decades.

Originally published in 1966 On the Syllogism and Other Logical Writings assembles for the first time the five celebrated memoirs of Augustus De Morgan on the syllogism.

Taking a data-driven approach, A Course on Statistics for Finance presents statistical methods for financial investment analysis.

An outstanding introduction to the fundamentals of regression analysis-updated and expanded The methods of regression analysis are the most widely used statistical tools for discovering the relationships among variables.

Using the same accessible, hands-on approach as its best-selling predecessor, the Handbook of Univariate and Multivariate Data Analysis with IBM SPSS, Second Edition explains how to apply statistical tests to experimental findings, identify the assumptions underlying the tests, and interpret the findings.

This book provides a groundbreaking introduction to the likelihood inference for correlated survival data via the hierarchical (or h-) likelihood in order to obtain the (marginal) likelihood and to address the computational difficulties in inferences and extensions.

A systematic and comprehensive introduction of seismic risk analysis of critical engineering structures, focusing on nuclear power plants.

This monograph surveys the theory of quantitative homogenization for second-order linear elliptic systems in divergence form with rapidly oscillating periodic coefficients in a bounded domain.

The book explores a range of mathematical topics essential for application in engineering and applied sciences.

Data graphics are used extensively to present information.

Drawing from many sources in the literature, Stochastic Dominance and Applications to Finance, Risk and Economics illustrates how stochastic dominance (SD) can be used as a method for risk assessment in decision making.

This volume contains selected contributions from geoENV III - the Third European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Sciences, held in Avignon, France in November 2000.

This book focuses on mathematical problems concerning different applications in physics, engineering, chemistry and biology.

We offer here a non-conventional approach to muhivariate ima- structured data for which the basis is well tested but the analytical ramifi- cations are still unfolding.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The analysis of variance is presented as an exploratory component of data analysis, while retaining the customary least squares fitting methods.

Introducing undergraduates to the vital concepts of statistics, this superb textbook allows instructors to include as much-or as little-mathematical detail as may be suitable for their students.

The chapters in this book deal with: Basic formulation of waveguide cavity resonator equations especially when the cross sections of the guides and resonators have arbitrary shapes.

Often, real-world problems modeled by Markov decision processes (MDPs) are difficult to solve in practise because of the curse of dimensionality.

In the Preface to the first edition, originally published in 1980, we mentioned that this book was based on the author's lectures in the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Lomonosov University in Moscow, which were issued, in part, in mimeographed form under the title "e;Probabil- ity, Statistics, and Stochastic Processors, I, II"e; and published by that Univer- sity.

This short book presents a framework for assessing the reliability and availability of visual quality control systems, placing particular emphasis on wavelet-based analysis.

Resonance examines some building blocks of epistemology as a prelude to the careful analysis of the foundations of probability.

Platform trials test multiple therapies in one indication, one therapy for multiple indications, or both.

This book is aimed at researchers, graduate students and engineers who would like to be initiated to Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMPs).

This book is an integrated work published in two volumes.

For junior/senior undergraduates in a variety of fields such as economics, business administration, applied mathematics and statistics, and for graduate students in quantitative masters programs such as MBA and MA/MS in economics.

This monograph compiles the contemporary knowledge about D-norms and provides an introductory tour through the essentials of multivariate extreme value theory.

This book explores the problem of minimal valid graph coloring, first in the form of games and then of resolution algorithms.