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Moments in mathematics / Henry J. Landau, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Proceedings of symposia in applied mathematics. AMS short course lecture notes ; Volume 37.
- Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics : AMS Short Course Lecture Notes ; Volume 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moment problems (Mathematics)--Congresses.
- Moment problems (Mathematics).
- Inequalities (Mathematics)--Congresses.
- Inequalities (Mathematics).
- Operator theory--Congresses.
- Operator theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society, 1987.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Starting from a historical survey of the use of moments in probability and statistics, this title illustrates the continuing vitality of these methods in a variety of novel problems drawn from such areas as Wiener-Ito integrals, random graphs and matrices, Gibbs ensembles, cumulants and self-similar processes, and empirical estimation.
- Contents:
- ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Classical Background of the Moment Problem""; ""Geometry of the Moment Problem""; ""Moment Problems and Operators in Hilbert Space""; ""Signal Processing Applications of Some Moment Problems""; ""The Multidimensional Moment Problem and Semigroups""; ""Application of the Method of Moments in Probability and Statistics""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Author Reference Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""
- ""G""""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Notes:
- "Lecture notes prepared for the American Mathematical Society Short Course, Moments in Mathematics, held in San Antonio, Texas January 20-22, 1987"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8218-9252-5
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