Contributions to probability and statistics [[electronic resource] ] : applications and challenges : proceedings of the International Statistics Workshop, University of Canberra, 4-5 April 2005 / / Peter Brown, Shuangzhe Liu, Dharmendra Sharma

• Pubblicazione: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324p.)
• Disciplina: 519.5
• Soggetto topico: Mathematical statistics; Probabilities
• Altri autori: BrownPeter LiuShuangzhe SharmaDharmendra
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Without Papers: Properties of Nearest-Neighbour Classifiers (P Hall); Bootstrapping in Clustered Populations (A H Welsh); and other papers.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contributions to probability and statistics
• ISBN: 981-4476-47-1; 1-281-37305-2; 9786611373054; 981-277-246-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784900403321
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