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UNINA9910139987903321 |
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Autore |
Bernardo J. M |
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Titolo |
Bayesian theory [[electronic resource] /] / José M. Bernardo, Adrian F.M. Smith |
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Chichester ; ; New York, : Wiley, c2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-30786-X |
9786612307867 |
0-470-31687-X |
0-470-31771-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (611 p.) |
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Collana |
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Wiley series in probability and statistics |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Bayesian statistical decision theory |
Statistical decision |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 1994. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-554) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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BAYESIAN THEORY; Contents; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1. Thomas Bayes; 1.2. The subjectivist view of probability; 1.3. Bayesian Statistics in perspective; 1.4. An overview of Bayesian Theory; 1.4.1. Scope; 1.4.2. Foundations; 1.4.3. Generalisations; 1.4.4. Modelling; 1.4.5. Inference; 1.4.6. Remodelling; 1.4.7. Basic formulae; 1.4.8. Non-Bayesian theories; 1.5. A Bayesian reading list; 2. FOUNDATIONS; 2.1. Beliefs and actions; 2.2. Decision problems; 2.2.1. Basic elements; 2.2.2. Formal representation; 2.3. Coherence and quantification; 2.3.1. Events, options and preferences |
2.3.2. Coherent preferences2.3.3. Quantification; 2.4. Beliefs and probabilities; 2.4.1. Representation of beliefs; 2.4.2. Revision of beliefs and Bayes' theorem; 2.4.3. Conditional independence; 2.4.4. Sequential revision of beliefs; 2.5. Actions and utilities; 2.5.1. Bounded sets of consequences; 2.5.2. Bounded decision problems; 2.5.3. General decision problems; 2.6. Sequential decision problems; 2.6.1. Complex decision problems; 2.6.2. Backward induction; 2.6.3. Design of experiments; 2.7. Inference and information; 2.7.1. Reporting beliefs as a decision problem |
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2.7.2. The utility of a probability distribution2.7.3. Approximation and discrepancy; 2.7.4. Information; 2.8. Discussion and further references; 2.8.1. Operational definitions; 2.8.2. Quantitative coherence theories; 2.8.3. Related theories; 2.8.4. Critical issues; 3. GENERALISATIONS; 3.1. Generalised representation of beliefs; 3.1.1. Motivation; 3.1.2. Countable additivity; 3.2. Review of probability theory; 3.2.1. Random quantities and distributions; 3.2.2. Some particular univariate distributions; 3.2.3. Convergence and limit theorems; 3.2.4. Random vectors, Bayes' theorem |
3.2.5. Some particular multivariate distributions3.3. Generalised options and utilities; 3.3.1. Motivation and preliminaries; 3.3.2. Generalised preferences; 3.3.3. The value of information; 3.4. Generalised information measures; 3.4.1. The general problem of reporting beliefs; 3.4.2. The utility of a general probability distribution; 3.4.3. Generalised approximation and discrepancy; 3.4.4. Generalised information; 3.5. Discussion and further references; 3.5.1. The role of mathematics; 3.5.2. Critical issues; 4. MODELLING; 4.1 Statistical models; 4.1.1. Beliefs and models |
4.2. Exchangeability and related concepts4.2.1. Dependence and independence; 4.2.2. Exchangeability and partial exchangeability; 4.3. Models via exchangeability; 4.3.1. The Bernoulli and binomial models; 4.3.2. The multinomial model; 4.3.3. The general model; 4.4. Models via invariance; 4.4.1. The normal model; 4.4.2. The multivariate normal model; 4.4.3. The exponential model; 4.4.4. The geometric model; 4.5. Models via sufficient statistics; 4.5.1. Summary statistics; 4.5.2. Predictive sufficiency and parametric sufficiency; 4.5.3. Sufficiency and the exponential family |
4.5.4. Information measures and the exponential family |
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This highly acclaimed text, now available in paperback, provides a thorough account of key concepts and theoretical results, with particular emphasis on viewing statistical inference as a special case of decision theory. Information-theoretic concepts play a central role in the development of the theory, which provides, in particular, a detailed discussion of the problem of specification of so-called prior ignorance . The work is written from the authors s committed Bayesian perspective, but an overview of non-Bayesian theories is also provided, and each chapter contains a wide-ranging critica |
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UNINA9910712019103321 |
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Autore |
John David A. |
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The Conterminous United States Mineral Assessment Program : background information to accompany folio of geologic, geochemical, geophysical, and mineral resource maps of the Reno 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada and California / / by David A. John [and four others] |
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Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 1992 |
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Washington : , : United States Government Printing Office, , 1992 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iii, 16 pages) : map |
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Collana |
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U.S. Geological Survey circular ; ; 1078 |
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Geology - Nevada |
Geology - California |
Mines and mineral resources - Nevada |
Mines and mineral resources - California |
Geology |
Mines and mineral resources |
California |
Nevada |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from title screen (viewed June 25, 2018). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 10-16). |
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UNINA9910813334203321 |
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Titolo |
City lives and city forms : critical research and Canadian urbanism / / edited by Jon Caulfield and Linda Peake |
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Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1996 |
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©1996 |
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1-282-00294-5 |
9786612002946 |
1-4426-7298-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 347 pages) : maps |
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Disciplina |
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Cities and towns - Canada |
Sociology, Urban - Canada |
Canada |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction / Jon Caulfield -- pt. 1. People, Places, Cultures. 1. The New Middle Class in Canadian Central Cities / David Ley. 2. Monster Homes: Hong Kong Immigration to Canada, Urban Conflicts, and Contested Representations of Space / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart. 3. 'Urban' and 'Aboriginal': An Impossible Contradiction? / Evelyn Peters. 4. Excavating Toronto's Underground Streets: In Search of Equitable Rights, Rules, and Revenue / Jeffrey Hopkins. 5. Feel Good Here? Relationships between Bodies and Urban Environments / Rob Shields. 6. Metropolis Unbound: Legislators and Interpreters of Urban Form / Engin F. Isin -- pt. 2. The Economy of Cities. 7. Economic Restructuring and the Diversification of Gentrification in the 1980s: A View from a Marginal Metropolis / Damaris Rose. 8. Restructuring the Local State: Economic Development and Local Public Enterprise in Toronto / Graham Todd. |
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Focusing on a series of pivotal issues confronting Canadian cities and city-dwellers today, this volume address key themes in urban studies:the interaction between social relations and urban landscape, the status of the city in the new world economy, and the sociocultural complexity |
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of urban populations. The fifteen essays presented here reflect the current preoccupations and perspectives of critically oriented urban researchers in Canada. The essays in Part 1, 'People, Places, Cultures,' examine the nature of urban space and the links between this space and social relations, illustrating the fundamental principle that urban spaces are 'built values' and 'built politics' - physical expressions of social process. Part 2, 'The Economy of Cities,' explores recent fundamental shifts in the economic character of Canadian cities, whose effect on the social and physical landscapes has been as dramatic as the explosive onset of industrialism was in the last century. Part 3, 'Urban Social Movements,' focuses on the practices of social movements, including those oriented to gender, race, and the environment.Consisting largely of applied case studies, rather than broad thematic essays, City Lives and City Forms presents an overall argument for focused critical research in the urban field and suggests possible directions for the future. |
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