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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141778803321

Autore

Gregson Robert A. M.

Titolo

Informative psychometric filters / / Robert A. M. Gregson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : ANU Press, 2006

Canberra, Australia : , : ANU E Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

9781920942663 (ebook)

1920942653 (paperback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

003.857015118

Soggetti

Chaotic behavior in systems - Mathematical models

Time-series analysis - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Information, Entropy and Transmission -- Transients onto Attractors -- Inter- and Intra-level Dynamics of Models -- A Bivariate Entropic Analogue of the Schwarzian Derivative -- Tribonacci and Long Memory -- Rescorla's Theory of Conditioning -- Nonlinearity, Nonstationarity and Concatenation -- Time Series of Disasters -- Perron-Frobenius at the Edge of Chaos -- ; Appendix: Nonlinear Psychophysical Dynamics.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a series of case studies with a common theme. Some refer closely to previous work by the author, but contrast with how they have been treated before, and some are new. Comparisons are drawn using various sorts of psychological and psychophysiological data that characteristically are particularly nonlinear, non-stationary, far from equilibrium and even chaotic, exhibiting abrupt transitions that are both reversible and irreversible, and failing to meet metric properties. A core idea is that both the human organism and the data analysis procedures used are filters, that may variously preserve, transform, distort or even destroy information of significance.