1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910495174303321

Autore

Dikta Gerhard <1955->

Titolo

Bootstrap Methods : With Applications in R / / by Gerhard Dikta, Marsel Scheer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

9783030734800

3030734803

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 256 p. 36 illus., 29 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

519.502855133

Soggetti

Statistics

Biometry

Bioinformatics

Statistical Theory and Methods

Biostatistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Generating random numbers -- The classical bootstrap -- Bootstrap based tests -- Regression analysis -- Goodness of fit test for generalized linear models -- boot package -- s i mTool package -- boot GOF package -- Session Info -- Notation and References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a compact introduction to the bootstrap method. In addition to classical results on point estimation and test theory, multivariate linear regression models and generalized linear models are covered in detail. Special attention is given to the use of bootstrap procedures to perform goodness-of-fit tests to validate model or distributional assumptions. In some cases, new methods are presented here for the first time. The text is motivated by practical examples and the implementations of the corresponding algorithms are always given directly in R in a comprehensible form. Overall, R is given great importance throughout. Each chapter includes a section of exercises and, for the more mathematically inclined readers, concludes with rigorous proofs. The intended audience is graduate students who



already have a prior knowledge of probability theory and mathematical statistics.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910416148103321

Autore

Marques Luiz

Titolo

Capitalism and Environmental Collapse / / by Luiz Marques

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-47527-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 459 pages)

Disciplina

363.7

Soggetti

Ecology

Climatic changes

Natural resources

World history

Environment Studies

Climate Change

Natural Resource and Energy Economics

World History, Global and Transnational History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: The Convergence of Environmental Crises -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Decrease and Degradation of Forests -- 3. Water and Soil -- 4. Waste and Industrial Intoxication -- 5. Fossil fuels -- 6. The Regression to Coal -- 7. Climate emergency -- 8. Climate Feedbacks and Tipping Points -- 9. Demography and Democracy -- 10. Collapse of Terrestrial Biodiversity -- 11. Collapse of Biodiversity in the Aquatic Environment -- 12. Genesis of the Idea of the Anthropocene and the New Man–Nature Relationship -- Part II: Three Concentric Illusions -- 13. The Illusion of a Sustainable Capitalism -- 14. More Surplus = Less Security -- 15. The Anthropocentric Illusion -- 16. Conclusion: From the Social Contract to the Natural Contract. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book intends to be an alert to the fact that the curve measuring



environmental costs against the economic benefits of capitalism has irreversibly entered into a negative phase. The prospect of an environmental collapse has been evidenced by the sciences and the humanities since the 1960s. Today, it imposes its urgency. This collapse differs from past civilizations in that it is neither local nor just civilizational. It is global and occurs at the broadest level of the biosphere, accelerated by the convergence of different socio-environmental crises, such as: Earth energy imbalance, climate change and global warming Sea-level rise Decrease and degradation of forests Collapse of terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity Floods, droughts, wildfires, and extreme weather events Degradation of soils and water resources Increase in pollution caused by fossil fuels and coal Increase in waste production and industrial intoxication The book is divided in two parts. In the first part it presents a comprehensive review of scientific data to show the already visible effects of each of the different environmental crises and its consequences to human life on Earth. In the second part, Luiz Marques critically discusses what he calls the three concentric illusions that prevent us from realizing the gravity of the current socio-environmental crises: the illusion of a sustainable capitalism, the illusion that economic growth is still capable of providing more well-being and the anthropocentric illusion. Finally, Marques argues that "fitting" back into the biosphere will only be possible if we dismantle the expansive socioeconomic gear that has shaped our societies since the 16th century by moving from a Social Contract to a Natural Contract, which takes into account the whole biosphere. According to him, the future society will be post-capitalist or it will not be a complex society, and even perhaps, we must fear, no society at all. .