Probability and information theory : proceedings of the international symposium at Mcmaster University, Canada, April 1968 / / edited by M. Behara, K. Krickeberg, J. Wolfowitz

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1969]; ©1969
• Edizione: 1st ed. 1969.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (IV, 260 p.)
• Disciplina: 519.2
• Soggetto topico: Probabilities; Information theory
• Persona (resp. second.): BeharaM; KrickebergKlaus; WolfowitzJacob <1910->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: On different characterizations of entropies -- The structure of capacity functions for compound channels -- Boolean algebraic methods in Markov chains -- Maxima of partial sums -- Series expansions for random processes -- Glivenko-Cantelli type theorems for distance functions based on the modified empirical distribution function of M. Kac and for the empirical process with random sample size in general -- On the continuity of Markov processes -- Some mathematical problems in statistical mechanics -- Asymptotic behaviour of the average probability of error for low rates of information transmission -- On the optimum rate of transmitting information -- A necessary and sufficient condition for the validity of the local ergodic theorem -- Recent results on mixing in topological measure spaces -- Convergence in probability and allied results -- Applications of almost surely convergent constructions of weakly convergent processes -- Random processes defined through the interaction of an infinite particle system -- The central limit theorem and ?-entropy -- Maximum probability estimators with a general loss function.
• Titolo autorizzato: Probability and Information Theory
• ISBN: 3-540-36098-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996466658403316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ; ; 89.