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Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

From Theory to Practice

Edited by Vincent A. W. J. Marchau, Warren E. Walker, Pieter J. T. M. Bloemen, Steven W. Popper ...

This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools ... Read more

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This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools
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An Introduction to Stochastic Processes in Physics

by Don S. Lemons ...

This "lucid, masterfully written introduction to an often difficult subject . . . belongs on the bookshelf of every student of statistical physics" (Dr. Brian J. Albright, Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory).This book provides an accessible introduction to stochastic processes in physics and describes the basic mathematical tools of the trade: probability, random walks, and ... Read more

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This "lucid, masterfully written introduction to an often difficult subject . . . belongs on the bookshelf of every student of statistical physics" (Dr. Brian J. Albright, Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory).This book provides an accessible introduction to stochastic processes in physics and describes the basic mathematical tools of the trade: probability, random walks, and
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Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems

Queueing Theory in Action

by Mor Harchol-Balter ...

Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science. The book is written with computer scientists and engineers in mind and is full of examples from computer systems, as well as manufacturing and operations research. Fun and readable, the book is highly approachable, even for undergraduates, while still being thoroughly ... Read more

$129.24 AUD

Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science. The book is written with computer scientists and engineers in mind and is full of examples from computer systems, as well as manufacturing and operations research. Fun and readable, the book is highly approachable, even for undergraduates, while still being thoroughly
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Doing Data Science

Straight Talk from the Frontline

by Cathy O'Neil, Rachel Schutt ...

Now that people are aware that data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science as an occupation is gaining ground. But how can you get started working in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field that’s so clouded in hype? This insightful book, based on Columbia University’s Introduction to Data Science class, tells you what you need to know.In many of these chapter ... Read more

$32.55 AUD

Now that people are aware that data can make the difference in an election or a business model, data science as an occupation is gaining ground. But how can you get started working in a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary field that’s so clouded in hype? This insightful book, based on Columbia University’s Introduction to Data Science class, tells you what you need to know.In many of these chapter
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Introduction to Probability, Second Edition

by Joseph K. Blitzstein, Jessica Hwang ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and toolsfor understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics, ... Read more

$231.51 AUD

Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Introduction to Probability provides essential language and toolsfor understanding statistics, randomness, and uncertainty. The book explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application areas explored include genetics,
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Modern Time Series Forecasting with Python

Industry-ready machine learning and deep learning time series analysis with PyTorch and pandas

by Manu Joseph, Jeffrey Tackes ...

Learn traditional and cutting-edge machine learning (ML) and deep learning techniques and best practices for time series forecasting, including global forecasting models, conformal prediction, and transformer architectures Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\* Key FeaturesApply ML and global models to improve forecasting accuracy through practical ... Read more

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Learn traditional and cutting-edge machine learning (ML) and deep learning techniques and best practices for time series forecasting, including global forecasting models, conformal prediction, and transformer architectures Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\* Key FeaturesApply ML and global models to improve forecasting accuracy through practical
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Introduction To Stochastic Calculus With Applications (2nd Edition)

by Fima C Klebaner ...

This book presents a concise treatment of stochastic calculus and its applications. It gives a simple but rigorous treatment of the subject including a range of advanced topics, it is useful for practitioners who use advanced theoretical results. It covers advanced applications, such as models in mathematical finance, biology and engineering.Self-contained and unified in presentation, the book ... Read more

$56.97 AUD

This book presents a concise treatment of stochastic calculus and its applications. It gives a simple but rigorous treatment of the subject including a range of advanced topics, it is useful for practitioners who use advanced theoretical results. It covers advanced applications, such as models in mathematical finance, biology and engineering.Self-contained and unified in presentation, the book
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Probability for Finance

by Ekkehard Kopp, Jan Malczak, Tomasz Zastawniak ...

Series series Mastering Mathematical Finance
Students and instructors alike will benefit from this rigorous, unfussy text, which keeps a clear focus on the basic probabilistic concepts required for an understanding of financial market models, including independence and conditioning. Assuming only some calculus and linear algebra, the text develops key results of measure and integration, which are applied to probability spaces and random ... Read more

$64.56 AUD

Students and instructors alike will benefit from this rigorous, unfussy text, which keeps a clear focus on the basic probabilistic concepts required for an understanding of financial market models, including independence and conditioning. Assuming only some calculus and linear algebra, the text develops key results of measure and integration, which are applied to probability spaces and random
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Stochastic Calculus for Finance

by Marek Capiński, Ekkehard Kopp, Janusz Traple ...

Series series Mastering Mathematical Finance
This book focuses specifically on the key results in stochastic processes that have become essential for finance practitioners to understand. The authors study the Wiener process and Itô integrals in some detail, with a focus on results needed for the Black–Scholes option pricing model. After developing the required martingale properties of this process, the construction of the integral and the ... Read more

$64.56 AUD

This book focuses specifically on the key results in stochastic processes that have become essential for finance practitioners to understand. The authors study the Wiener process and Itô integrals in some detail, with a focus on results needed for the Black–Scholes option pricing model. After developing the required martingale properties of this process, the construction of the integral and the
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A Basic Course in Measure and Probability

Theory for Applications

by Ross Leadbetter, Stamatis Cambanis, Vladas Pipiras ...

Originating from the authors' own graduate course at the University of North Carolina, this material has been thoroughly tried and tested over many years, making the book perfect for a two-term course or for self-study. It provides a concise introduction that covers all of the measure theory and probability most useful for statisticians, including Lebesgue integration, limit theorems in ... Read more

$78.20 AUD

Originating from the authors' own graduate course at the University of North Carolina, this material has been thoroughly tried and tested over many years, making the book perfect for a two-term course or for self-study. It provides a concise introduction that covers all of the measure theory and probability most useful for statisticians, including Lebesgue integration, limit theorems in
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The Probability Companion for Engineering and Computer Science

by Adam Prügel-Bennett ...

This friendly guide is the companion you need to convert pure mathematics into understanding and facility with a host of probabilistic tools. The book provides a high-level view of probability and its most powerful applications. It begins with the basic rules of probability and quickly progresses to some of the most sophisticated modern techniques in use, including Kalman filters, Monte Carlo ... Read more

$83.26 AUD

This friendly guide is the companion you need to convert pure mathematics into understanding and facility with a host of probabilistic tools. The book provides a high-level view of probability and its most powerful applications. It begins with the basic rules of probability and quickly progresses to some of the most sophisticated modern techniques in use, including Kalman filters, Monte Carlo
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Dirichlet Forms and Related Topics

In Honor of Masatoshi Fukushima’s Beiju, IWDFRT 2022, Osaka, Japan, August 22–26

Edited by Zhen-Qing Chen, Masayoshi Takeda, Toshihiro Uemura ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This conference proceeding contains 27 peer-reviewed invited papers from leading experts as well as young researchers all over the world in the related fields that Professor Fukushima has made important contributions to.These 27 papers cover a wide range of topics in probability theory, ranging from Dirichlet form theory, Markov processes, heat kernel estimates, entropy on Wiener spaces, analysis ... Read more

$215.15 AUD

This conference proceeding contains 27 peer-reviewed invited papers from leading experts as well as young researchers all over the world in the related fields that Professor Fukushima has made important contributions to.These 27 papers cover a wide range of topics in probability theory, ranging from Dirichlet form theory, Markov processes, heat kernel estimates, entropy on Wiener spaces, analysis
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Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Quantum Probability and Applications

QP41 Conference, Al Ain, UAE, March 28–April 1, 2021

Edited by Luigi Accardi, Farrukh Mukhamedov, Ahmed Al Rawashdeh ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This proceedings volume gathers selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 41st International Conference on Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Quantum Probability and Related Topics (QP41) that was virtually held at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, from March 28th to April 1st, 2021. The works cover recent developments in quantum probability and infinite ... Read more

$215.15 AUD

This proceedings volume gathers selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 41st International Conference on Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Quantum Probability and Related Topics (QP41) that was virtually held at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, from March 28th to April 1st, 2021. The works cover recent developments in quantum probability and infinite
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Bad Science

Die dunkle Seite der Statistik

by Florian Meinfelder, Rebekka Kluge ...

DIE SENSIBILITÄT FÜR DEN MISSBRAUCH STATISTISCHER METHODEN ERHÖHENUnter dem Begriff „Bad Science“ verstehen die Autoren und Herausgeber dieses Bandes sowohl schlampiges Vorgehen beim wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, als auch auf Grund von Vorurteilen zu einseitig geratene Untersuchungen, bis hin zum Fälschen von Ergebnissen.Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes basieren auf Seminararbeiten des ... Read more

$37.99 AUD

DIE SENSIBILITÄT FÜR DEN MISSBRAUCH STATISTISCHER METHODEN ERHÖHENUnter dem Begriff „Bad Science“ verstehen die Autoren und Herausgeber dieses Bandes sowohl schlampiges Vorgehen beim wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten, als auch auf Grund von Vorurteilen zu einseitig geratene Untersuchungen, bis hin zum Fälschen von Ergebnissen.Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes basieren auf Seminararbeiten des
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Asymptotics, Nonparametrics, and Time Series

Edited by Subir Ghosh ...

"Contains over 2500 equations and exhaustively covers not only nonparametrics but also parametric, semiparametric, frequentist, Bayesian, bootstrap, adaptive, univariate, and multivariate statistical methods, as well as practical uses of Markov chain models." ... Read more

$138.89 AUD

"Contains over 2500 equations and exhaustively covers not only nonparametrics but also parametric, semiparametric, frequentist, Bayesian, bootstrap, adaptive, univariate, and multivariate statistical methods, as well as practical uses of Markov chain models."
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Probability Models in Operations Research

by C. Richard Cassady ...

Series series Operations Research Series
Industrial engineering has expanded from its origins in manufacturing to transportation, health care, logistics, services, and more. A common denominator among all these industries, and one of the biggest challenges facing decision-makers, is the unpredictability of systems. Probability Models in Operations Research provides a comprehensive ... Read more

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Industrial engineering has expanded from its origins in manufacturing to transportation, health care, logistics, services, and more. A common denominator among all these industries, and one of the biggest challenges facing decision-makers, is the unpredictability of systems. Probability Models in Operations Research provides a comprehensive
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Probability Theory I

Random Variables and Distributions

by Andrea Pascucci ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This book provides a concise yet rigorous introduction to probability theory. Among the possible approaches to the subject, the most modern approach based on measure theory has been chosen: although it requires a higher degree of mathematical abstraction and sophistication, it is essential to provide the foundations for the study of more advanced topics such as stochastic processes, stochastic ... Read more

$89.09 AUD

This book provides a concise yet rigorous introduction to probability theory. Among the possible approaches to the subject, the most modern approach based on measure theory has been chosen: although it requires a higher degree of mathematical abstraction and sophistication, it is essential to provide the foundations for the study of more advanced topics such as stochastic processes, stochastic
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Spectral Theory of Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems and Applications

by Thai Son Doan ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
The main challenge in the study of nonautonomous phenomena is to understand the very complicated dynamical behaviour both as a scientific and mathematical problem. The theory of nonautonomous dynamical systems has experienced a renewed and steadily growing interest in the last twenty years, stimulated also by synergetic effects of disciplines which have developed relatively independent for some ... Read more

$188.09 AUD

The main challenge in the study of nonautonomous phenomena is to understand the very complicated dynamical behaviour both as a scientific and mathematical problem. The theory of nonautonomous dynamical systems has experienced a renewed and steadily growing interest in the last twenty years, stimulated also by synergetic effects of disciplines which have developed relatively independent for some
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Semimartingales and their Statistical Inference

by B.L.S. Prakasa Rao ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability
Statistical inference carries great significance in model building from both the theoretical and the applications points of view. Its applications to engineering and economic systems, financial economics, and the biological and medical sciences have made statistical inference for stochastic processes a well-recognized and important branch of statistics and probability.The class of semimartingales ... Read more

$138.89 AUD

Statistical inference carries great significance in model building from both the theoretical and the applications points of view. Its applications to engineering and economic systems, financial economics, and the biological and medical sciences have made statistical inference for stochastic processes a well-recognized and important branch of statistics and probability.The class of semimartingales
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Tensor Methods in Statistics

Second Edition

by Peter McCullagh ...

A pioneering monograph on tensor methods applied to distributional problems arising in statistics, this work constitutes a valuable reference for graduate students and professional statisticians. Prerequisites include some knowledge of linear algebra, eigenvalue decompositions, and linear models as well as likelihood functions and likelihood ratio statistics.Index notation is the favored mode of ... Read more

$24.63 AUD

A pioneering monograph on tensor methods applied to distributional problems arising in statistics, this work constitutes a valuable reference for graduate students and professional statisticians. Prerequisites include some knowledge of linear algebra, eigenvalue decompositions, and linear models as well as likelihood functions and likelihood ratio statistics.Index notation is the favored mode of
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Stochastic Processes, Statistical Methods, and Engineering Mathematics

SPAS 2019, Västerås, Sweden, September 30–October 2

Edited by Anatoliy Malyarenko, Ying Ni, Milica Rančić, Sergei Silvestrov ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
The goal of the 2019 conference on Stochastic Processes and Algebraic Structures held in SPAS2019, Västerås, Sweden, from September 30th to October 2nd 2019, was to showcase the frontiers of research in several important areas of mathematics, mathematical statistics, and its applications. The conference was organized around the following topicsStochastic processes and modern statistical methods ... Read more

$404.13 AUD

The goal of the 2019 conference on Stochastic Processes and Algebraic Structures held in SPAS2019, Västerås, Sweden, from September 30th to October 2nd 2019, was to showcase the frontiers of research in several important areas of mathematics, mathematical statistics, and its applications. The conference was organized around the following topicsStochastic processes and modern statistical methods
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Dirichlet Forms Methods for Poisson Point Measures and Lévy Processes

With Emphasis on the Creation-Annihilation Techniques

by Nicolas Bouleau, Laurent Denis ...

Series Book 76 - Probability Theory and Stochastic Modelling
A simplified approach to Malliavin calculus adapted to Poisson random measures is developed and applied in this book. Called the “lent particle method” it is based on perturbation of the position of particles. Poisson random measures describe phenomena involving random jumps (for instance in mathematical finance) or the random distribution of particles (as in statistical physics). Thanks to the ... Read more

$188.09 AUD

A simplified approach to Malliavin calculus adapted to Poisson random measures is developed and applied in this book. Called the “lent particle method” it is based on perturbation of the position of particles. Poisson random measures describe phenomena involving random jumps (for instance in mathematical finance) or the random distribution of particles (as in statistical physics). Thanks to the
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Computational Methods for Transition States and Pathways in Rare Events

by Shuting Gu ...

Based on the calculation of transition states and the identification of transition paths, this book aims to provide a comprehensive guide to understanding and simulating rare events.The author introduces both fundamental concepts of transition states and pathways and advanced computational techniques, focusing on Gentlest Ascent Dynamics (GAD) and its variants. In particular, she explores enhanced ... Read more

$114.20 AUD

Based on the calculation of transition states and the identification of transition paths, this book aims to provide a comprehensive guide to understanding and simulating rare events.The author introduces both fundamental concepts of transition states and pathways and advanced computational techniques, focusing on Gentlest Ascent Dynamics (GAD) and its variants. In particular, she explores enhanced
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Procesos estocásticos con aplicaciones

by Rodrigo Barbosa, Humberto llinas ...

Este libro fue desarrollado a partir de un conjunto de notas de clase sobre la asignatura Procesos estocásticos y Control de Calidad tanto en los programas de Ingeniería como en la Maestría en Estadística de la Universidad del Norte, pero está dirigido a un público amplio. El enfoque empleado en este texto hace énfasis en la aplicación e interpretación de los conceptos básicos de los procesos ... Read more

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Este libro fue desarrollado a partir de un conjunto de notas de clase sobre la asignatura Procesos estocásticos y Control de Calidad tanto en los programas de Ingeniería como en la Maestría en Estadística de la Universidad del Norte, pero está dirigido a un público amplio. El enfoque empleado en este texto hace énfasis en la aplicación e interpretación de los conceptos básicos de los procesos
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