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Contributions to probability and statistics : applications and challenges : proceedings of the International Statistics Workshop, University of Canberra, 4-5 April 2005 / Peter Brown, Shuangzhe Liu, Dharmendra Sharma.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- International Statistics Workshop, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- International Statistics Workshop (2005 : Canberra, A.C.T.)
- International Statistics Workshop
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematical statistics--Congresses.
- Mathematical statistics.
- Probabilities--Congresses.
- Probabilities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786611373054
- 9789814476478
- 9814476471
- 9781281373052
- 1281373052
- 9789812772466
- 9812772464
- OCLC:
- 879024944
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