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Record Nr.

UNINA9911020051603321

Autore

Ethier Stewart N. <1948->

Titolo

Markov processes : characterization and convergence / / Stewart N. Ethier and Thomas G. Kurtz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Wiley, c1986

ISBN

9786612308079

9781282308077

1282308076

9780470316658

0470316659

9780470317327

0470317329

Descrizione fisica

x, 534 p

Collana

Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics

Altri autori (Persone)

KurtzThomas G

Disciplina

519.233

Soggetti

Markov processes

Stochastic processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "[A]nyone who works with Markov processes whose state space is uncountably infinite will need this most impressive book as a guide and reference." -American Scientist "There is no question but that space should immediately be reserved for [this] book on the library shelf. Those who aspire to mastery of the contents should also reserve a large number of long winter evenings." -Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete/Mathematics Abstracts "Ethier and Kurtz have produced an excellent treatment of the modern theory of Markov processes that [is] useful both as a reference



work and as a graduate textbook." -Journal of Statistical Physics Markov Processes presents several different approaches to proving weak approximation theorems for Markov processes, emphasizing the interplay of methods of characterization and approximation. Martingale problems for general Markov processes are systematically developed for the first time in book form. Useful to the professional as a reference and suitable for the graduate student as a text, this volume features a table of the interdependencies among the theorems, an extensive bibliography, and end-of-chapter problems.