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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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Understanding Probability

by Henk Tijms ...

Understanding Probability is a unique and stimulating approach to a first course in probability. The first part of the book demystifies probability and uses many wonderful probability applications from everyday life to help the reader develop a feel for probabilities. The second part, covering a wide range of topics, teaches clearly and simply the basics of probability. This fully revised third ... Read more

£41.09

Understanding Probability is a unique and stimulating approach to a first course in probability. The first part of the book demystifies probability and uses many wonderful probability applications from everyday life to help the reader develop a feel for probabilities. The second part, covering a wide range of topics, teaches clearly and simply the basics of probability. This fully revised third
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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

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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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Bayesian Methods in the Search for MH370

by Sam Davey, Neil Gordon, Ian Holland, Mark Rutten, Jason Williams ...

Series series SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering
This book demonstrates how nonlinear/non-Gaussian Bayesian time series estimation methods were used to produce a probability distribution of potential MH370 flight paths. It provides details of how the probabilistic models of aircraft flight dynamics, satellite communication system measurements, environmental effects and radar data were constructed and calibrated. The probability distribution was ... Read more

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This book demonstrates how nonlinear/non-Gaussian Bayesian time series estimation methods were used to produce a probability distribution of potential MH370 flight paths. It provides details of how the probabilistic models of aircraft flight dynamics, satellite communication system measurements, environmental effects and radar data were constructed and calibrated. The probability distribution was
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Coin Tossing: The Hydrogen Atom of Probability

by Stefan Hollos, J. Richard Hollos ...

The coin toss is to probability theory what the hydrogen atom is to quantum mechanics. It is the simplest random event that you can imagine. There are only two possible outcomes: heads or tails. This simplicity means that many questions about coin tossing can be asked and answered in great depth, serving as a gateway for exploring probability and statistics, and a foundation for understanding many ... Read more

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The coin toss is to probability theory what the hydrogen atom is to quantum mechanics. It is the simplest random event that you can imagine. There are only two possible outcomes: heads or tails. This simplicity means that many questions about coin tossing can be asked and answered in great depth, serving as a gateway for exploring probability and statistics, and a foundation for understanding many
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Molecular Storms

The Physics of Stars, Cells and the Origin of Life

by Liam Graham ...

Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
“Following in the footsteps of Stephen Hawking's ‘A brief history of time’ and Simon Singh's ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ this exceptionally accessible book will you leave marveling at the wonders of the world and, if you didn't listen to your science teachers, wishing you had. Graham writes with the mind of a physicist and the soul of a poet.”Nicki Hayes, CCO, The Communications Practice, author of ... Read more

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“Following in the footsteps of Stephen Hawking's ‘A brief history of time’ and Simon Singh's ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ this exceptionally accessible book will you leave marveling at the wonders of the world and, if you didn't listen to your science teachers, wishing you had. Graham writes with the mind of a physicist and the soul of a poet.”Nicki Hayes, CCO, The Communications Practice, author of
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Examples In Markov Decision Processes

by Alexey B Piunovskiy ...

Series Book 2 - Imperial College Press Optimization Series
This invaluable book provides approximately eighty examples illustrating the theory of controlled discrete-time Markov processes. Except for applications of the theory to real-life problems like stock exchange, queues, gambling, optimal search etc, the main attention is paid to counter-intuitive, unexpected properties of optimization problems. Such examples illustrate the importance of conditions ... Read more

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This invaluable book provides approximately eighty examples illustrating the theory of controlled discrete-time Markov processes. Except for applications of the theory to real-life problems like stock exchange, queues, gambling, optimal search etc, the main attention is paid to counter-intuitive, unexpected properties of optimization problems. Such examples illustrate the importance of conditions
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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

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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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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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Fundamentals of Computational Neuroscience

Third Edition

by Thomas P. Trappenberg ...

Computational neuroscience is the theoretical study of the brain to uncover the principles and mechanisms that guide the development, organization, information processing, and mental functions of the nervous system. Although not a new area, it is only recently that enough knowledge has been gathered to establish computational neuroscience as a scientific discipline in its own right. Given the ... Read more

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Computational neuroscience is the theoretical study of the brain to uncover the principles and mechanisms that guide the development, organization, information processing, and mental functions of the nervous system. Although not a new area, it is only recently that enough knowledge has been gathered to establish computational neuroscience as a scientific discipline in its own right. Given the
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Hidden Markov Models for Time Series

An Introduction Using R, Second Edition

by Walter Zucchini, Iain L. MacDonald, Roland Langrock ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability
Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R, Second Edition illustrates the great flexibility of hidden Markov models (HMMs) as general-purpose models for time series data. The book provides a broad understanding of the models and their uses.After presenting the basic model formulation, the book covers estimation, forecasting, decoding, prediction, model selection, and Bayesian ... Read more

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Hidden Markov Models for Time Series: An Introduction Using R, Second Edition illustrates the great flexibility of hidden Markov models (HMMs) as general-purpose models for time series data. The book provides a broad understanding of the models and their uses.After presenting the basic model formulation, the book covers estimation, forecasting, decoding, prediction, model selection, and Bayesian
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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

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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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Planar Maps, Random Walks and Circle Packing

École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLVIII - 2018

by Asaf Nachmias ...

Series Book 2243 - Lecture Notes in Mathematics
This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, uniform spanning trees of planar maps, local limits of finite planar maps and the almost sure recurrence of simple random walks on these limits. One of its main goals is to ... Read more

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This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, uniform spanning trees of planar maps, local limits of finite planar maps and the almost sure recurrence of simple random walks on these limits. One of its main goals is to
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Probability

An Introduction

by Dominic Welsh, Geoffrey Grimmett ...

Probability is an area of mathematics of tremendous contemporary importance across all aspects of human endeavour. This book is a compact account of the basic features of probability and random processes at the level of first and second year mathematics undergraduates and Masters' students in cognate fields. It is suitable for a first course in probability, plus a follow-up course in random ... Read more

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Probability is an area of mathematics of tremendous contemporary importance across all aspects of human endeavour. This book is a compact account of the basic features of probability and random processes at the level of first and second year mathematics undergraduates and Masters' students in cognate fields. It is suitable for a first course in probability, plus a follow-up course in random
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Commodities, Energy and Environmental Finance

Edited by Ronnie Sircar, Michael Ludkovski, René Aïd ...

Series Book 74 - Fields Institute Communications
This volume is a collection of chapters covering the latest developments in applications of financial mathematics and statistics to topics in energy, commodity financial markets and environmental economics. The research presented is based on the presentations and discussions that took place during the Fields Institute Focus Program on Commodities, Energy and Environmental Finance in August 2013. ... Read more

£38.99

This volume is a collection of chapters covering the latest developments in applications of financial mathematics and statistics to topics in energy, commodity financial markets and environmental economics. The research presented is based on the presentations and discussions that took place during the Fields Institute Focus Program on Commodities, Energy and Environmental Finance in August 2013.
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Coin-Turning, Random Walks and Inhomogeneous Markov Chains

by János Engländer, Stanislav Volkov ...

This research monograph explores new frontiers in Markov chains. Although time-homogeneous Markov chains are well understood, this is not at all the case with time-inhomogeneous ones. The book, after a review on the classical theory of homogeneous chains, including the electrical network approach, introduces several new models which involve inhomogeneous chains as well as related new types of ... Read more

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This research monograph explores new frontiers in Markov chains. Although time-homogeneous Markov chains are well understood, this is not at all the case with time-inhomogeneous ones. The book, after a review on the classical theory of homogeneous chains, including the electrical network approach, introduces several new models which involve inhomogeneous chains as well as related new types of
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Exercises of Stochastic Processes

by Simone Malacrida ...

In this book, exercises are carried out regarding the following mathematical topics:Markov chains and Markovian stochastic processestime-dependent and time-independent stochastic processesrandom walks and Brownian motionInitial theoretical hints are also presented to make the performance of the exercises understood. ... Read more

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In this book, exercises are carried out regarding the following mathematical topics:Markov chains and Markovian stochastic processestime-dependent and time-independent stochastic processesrandom walks and Brownian motionInitial theoretical hints are also presented to make the performance of the exercises understood.
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Methoden zur Analyse ökonomischer Zeitreihen mit zeitlicher Volatilität (ARCH) und Kointegration - Robert F. Engle und Clive W.J. Granger

by Janina Bartje ...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Mathematik - Statistik, Note: 1.0, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Insitut für Volkswirtschaftslehre), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der empirischen Forschung kommt Zeitreihen eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Diese entstehen dadurch, dass Daten zu bestimmten wirtschaftlichen Sachverhalten im Zeitablauf regelmäßig erhoben werden, wie etwa Aktienkurse, ... Read more

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Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Mathematik - Statistik, Note: 1.0, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Insitut für Volkswirtschaftslehre), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der empirischen Forschung kommt Zeitreihen eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Diese entstehen dadurch, dass Daten zu bestimmten wirtschaftlichen Sachverhalten im Zeitablauf regelmäßig erhoben werden, wie etwa Aktienkurse,
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Modellspezifikation von multivariaten ökonomischen Zeitreihen

Spezifikation von AR-, MA-, ARMA-, ARIMA-, VAR- und VARMA-Modellen

by Arne Johannssen ...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Mathematik - Statistik, Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Veränderungen von Variablen über die Zeit können anhand von Zeitreihen dargestellt werden. Zeitreihen treten in allen wissenschaftlichen Bereichen auf, sobald die Dynamik und die zeitliche Entwicklung realer Systeme empirisch ... Read more

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Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Mathematik - Statistik, Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Veränderungen von Variablen über die Zeit können anhand von Zeitreihen dargestellt werden. Zeitreihen treten in allen wissenschaftlichen Bereichen auf, sobald die Dynamik und die zeitliche Entwicklung realer Systeme empirisch
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methoden

by Thomas Plehn ...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Mathematik - Stochastik, Note: 1.0, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wir beginnen mit einem sehr einfachen Beispiel: Denken wir an einen zufälligen Läufer in einer sehr kleinen Stadt, die nur aus vier Straßen besteht. Dabei werden die vier Straßenecken wie in der untenstehenden Abbildung mit v1, v2, v3 und v4 bezeichnet. Zum Zeitpunkt ... Read more

£15.99

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Mathematik - Stochastik, Note: 1.0, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wir beginnen mit einem sehr einfachen Beispiel: Denken wir an einen zufälligen Läufer in einer sehr kleinen Stadt, die nur aus vier Straßen besteht. Dabei werden die vier Straßenecken wie in der untenstehenden Abbildung mit v1, v2, v3 und v4 bezeichnet. Zum Zeitpunkt
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A Course of Stochastic Analysis

by Alexander Melnikov ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This thoroughly updated second edition offers a unified, modern pathway from the Kolmogorov foundations of probability to the tools of stochastic calculus—and on to applications in finance, statistics, and risk. With clarity and breadth, it develops martingale and semimartingale theory alongside stochastic differential equations, keeping both discrete- and continuous-time viewpoints in play.What’s ... Read more

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This thoroughly updated second edition offers a unified, modern pathway from the Kolmogorov foundations of probability to the tools of stochastic calculus—and on to applications in finance, statistics, and risk. With clarity and breadth, it develops martingale and semimartingale theory alongside stochastic differential equations, keeping both discrete- and continuous-time viewpoints in play.What’s
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Datenvisualisierung

Vom Diagramm zur Virtual Reality

by Prof. Dr. Peter Fischer-Stabel ...

Techniken der Datenvisualisierung werden mittlerweile in allen Disziplinen eingesetzt. Mit ihnen kann einerseits die effiziente Aufbereitung und Analyse einer exponentiell gewachsenen Informationsmenge gewährleistet werden. Andererseits lassen sich so komplexe Informationsinhalte in einem visuellen Umfeld angemessen kommunizieren. Der Autor präsentiert die wesentlichen Felder der ... Read more

£25.99

Techniken der Datenvisualisierung werden mittlerweile in allen Disziplinen eingesetzt. Mit ihnen kann einerseits die effiziente Aufbereitung und Analyse einer exponentiell gewachsenen Informationsmenge gewährleistet werden. Andererseits lassen sich so komplexe Informationsinhalte in einem visuellen Umfeld angemessen kommunizieren. Der Autor präsentiert die wesentlichen Felder der
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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

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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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Advanced Engineering Mathematics

A Second Course with MatLab

by Dean G. Duffy ...

Series series Advances in Applied Mathematics
Through four previous editions of Advanced Engineering Mathematics with MATLAB, the author presented a wide variety of topics needed by today's engineers. The fifth edition of that book, available now, has been broken into two parts: topics currently needed in mathematics courses and a new stand-alone volume presenting topics not often included in these courses and consequently unknown to ... Read more

£94.99

Through four previous editions of Advanced Engineering Mathematics with MATLAB, the author presented a wide variety of topics needed by today's engineers. The fifth edition of that book, available now, has been broken into two parts: topics currently needed in mathematics courses and a new stand-alone volume presenting topics not often included in these courses and consequently unknown to
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