Probability and statistics

This volume features selected, refereed papers on various aspects of statistics, matrix theory and its applications to statistics, as well as related numerical linear algebra topics and numerical solution methods, which are relevant for problems arising in statistics and in big data.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining for Sports Analytics, MLSA 2018, colocated with ECML/PKDD 2018, in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2018.

This volume presents the proceedings of the meeting New Trends in One-Dimensional Dynamics, which celebrated the 70th birthday of Welington de Melo and was held at the IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, in November 2016.

This book provides a generalised approach to fractal dimension theory from the standpoint of asymmetric topology by employing the concept of a fractal structure.

The second edition of this volume provides insight and practical illustrations on how modern statistical concepts and regression methods can be applied in medical prediction problems, including diagnostic and prognostic outcomes.

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This book provides practical applications of statistical and mathematical concepts to resolve common issues in hospital management.

The book is the extended and revised version of the 1st edition and is composed of two main parts: mathematical background and queueing systems with applications.

Stemming from the IHP trimester "e;Stochastic Dynamics Out of Equilibrium"e;, this collection of contributions focuses on aspects of nonequilibrium dynamics and its ongoing developments.

This book presents, in an accessible and self-consistent way, the theory of diffusion in random velocity fields, together with robust numerical simulation approaches.

This book focuses on quantitative approximation results for weak limit theorems when the target limiting law is infinitely divisible with finite first moment.

This textbook provides an introduction to convex duality for optimization problems in Banach spaces, integration theory, and their application to stochastic programming problems in a static or dynamic setting.

This book presents strategies for analyzing qualitative and mixed methods data with MAXQDA software, and provides guidance on implementing a variety of research methods and approaches, e.

The focus of this book is the large-scale statistical behavior of solutions of divergence-form elliptic equations with random coefficients, which is closely related to the long-time asymptotics of reversible diffusions in random media and other basic models of statistical physics.

This Festschrift on the occasion of the 75th birthday of S.

This edited volume presents current research in biostatistics with emphasis on biopharmaceutical applications.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2018, which took place in Xi'an, China, in November 2018.

The 2nd edition of R for Marketing Research and Analytics continues to be the best place to learn R for marketing research.

This book constitutes the revised post-conference proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2018, held at Bergen, Norway, in December 2018.

Modern marketing managers need intuitive and effective tools not just for designing strategies but also for general management.

This textbook provides a step-by-step introduction to the class of vine copulas, their statistical inference and applications.

Now in its fifth edition, this book offers a detailed yet concise introduction to the growing field of statistical applications in finance.

This volume offers a unique and accessible overview of the most active fields in Stochastic Geometry, up to the frontiers of recent research.

This book gives a mathematical insight--including intermediate derivation steps--into engineering physics and turbulence modeling related to an anisotropic modification to the Boussinesq hypothesis (deformation theory) coupled with the similarity theory of velocity fluctuations.

This book describes and outlines the theoretical foundations of system simulation in teaching, and as a practical contribution to teaching-and-learning models.

This book presents four survey articles on various aspects of open quantum systems, specifically addressing quantum Markovian processes, Feller semigroups and nonequilibrium dynamics.

This book combines a model reduction technique with an efficient parametrization scheme for the purpose of solving a class of complex and computationally expensive simulation-based problems involving finite element models.

This book focuses on the development of approximation-related algorithms and their relevant applications.

This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to broad learning, one of the novel learning problems studied in data mining and machine learning.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

The vast amounts of ontologically unstructured information on the Web, including HTML, XML and JSON documents, natural language documents, tweets, blogs, markups, and even structured documents like CSV tables, all contain useful knowledge that can present a tremendous advantage to the Artificial Intelligence community if extracted robustly, efficiently and semi-automatically as knowledge graphs.

There has been an increase in attention toward systems involving large numbers of small players, giving rise to the theory of mean field games, mean field type control and nonlinear Markov games.

This book is a strenuous critique of the misinterpretation of statistical knowledge of populations in mainstream psychology, exploring the implications of assuming that those statistics constitute scientific knowledge of individuals.

This introductory book enables researchers and students of all backgrounds to compute interrater agreements for nominal data.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Finite Difference Methods, FDM 2018, held in Lozenetz, Bulgaria, in June 2018.

This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on perceived safety.

This contributed volume features invited papers on current models and statistical methods for spatial and multivariate data.

This must-read textbook presents an essential introduction to Kolmogorov complexity (KC), a central theory and powerful tool in information science that deals with the quantity of information in individual objects.

The most recent methods in various branches of lattice path and enumerative combinatorics along with relevant applications are nicely grouped together and represented in this research contributed volume.

This book contains revised selected papers from the 25th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2018, held in Calgary, AB, Canada in August 2018.

Focusing on recent advances in option pricing under the SABR model, this book shows how to price options under this model in an arbitrage-free, theoretically consistent manner.

This book provides an undergraduate introduction to analysing data for data science, computer science, and quantitative social science students.

This book discusses various statistical models and their implications for developing landslide susceptibility and risk zonation maps.

This book discusses the psychological traits associated with drug consumption through the statistical analysis of a new database with information on 1885 respondents and use of 18 drugs.

In this Information Age, the practices of clinical medicine should no longer be based on what clinical doctors actively know.

In 2010, the 5th edition of the textbook, "e;Statistics Applied to Clinical Studies"e;, was published by Springer and since then has been widely distributed.

This book proposes a review of Long-Term Care insurance; this issue is addressed both from a global point of view (through a presentation of the risk of dependence associated with the aging of the population) and an actuarial point of view (with the presentation of existing insurance products and actuarial techniques for pricing and reserving).

This book is devoted to Corrado Gini, father of the Italian statistical school.

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification (UQ) methodologies and applications, and covers a wide range of current research, future challenges and applications in various domains, such as aerospace and mechanical applications, structure health and seismic hazard, electromagnetic energy (its impact on systems and humans) and global environmental state change.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2018, held in Oxford, UK, in December 2018.