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UNINA9910809078403321 |
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Titolo |
Contributions to probability and statistics : applications and challenges : proceedings of the International Statistics Workshop, University of Canberra, 4-5 April 2005 / / Peter Brown, Shuangzhe Liu, Dharmendra Sharma |
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Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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981-4476-47-1 |
1-281-37305-2 |
9786611373054 |
981-277-246-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BrownPeter |
LiuShuangzhe |
SharmaDharmendra |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mathematical statistics |
Probabilities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Mathematics and Statistics in Society: Two Classification Methods of Individuals for Educational Data and an Application (A Hayashi); Measurement of Skill and Skill Change (R Kelly & P E T Lewis); Applications of Statistics: Estimating the Numbers of SARS Cases in Mainland China in 2002-3 (J Gani); A Fair Tennis Scoring System for Doubles in the Presence of Sun and Wind Effects -- An Application of Probability (G Pollard); Theoretical Issues in Probability and Statistics: Perturbed Markov Chains (J J Hunter); Matrix Tricks for Linear Statistical Models: A Short Review of Our Personal Top Fourteen (J Isotalo et al.); On the Approximate Variance of a Nonlinear Function of Random Variables (H Neudecker & G Trenkler); Probabilistic Models in Economics and Finance: When Large Claims are Extremes (R Gay); Shrinkage Estimation of Gini Index (R Ghori et al.); Numerical Methods: An Approximate Maximum a Posteriori Method with Gaussian Process Priors (M Hegland); Mining Multiple Models (G J Williams); Abstracts |
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Without Papers: Properties of Nearest-Neighbour Classifiers (P Hall); Bootstrapping in Clustered Populations (A H Welsh); and other papers. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Features a range of topics in modern statistical theory and methodology, economics and finance, ecology, education, health and sports studies, and computer and IT-data mining. Some of the contributions contain illustrations of the applied methods or photos of historic mathematicians. |
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