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Perspectives in mathematical sciences. I, Probability and statistics /

This book presents a collection of invited articles by distinguished probabilists and statisticians on the occasion of the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations of the Indian Statistical Institute - a notable institute with significant achievement in research areas of statistics, probability and mathematics...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Narasimha Sastry, N. S., Pal, Sankar K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore ; London : World Scientific, ©2009.
Colección:Statistical science and interdisciplinary research ; v. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Entropy and Martingale / K.B. Athreya and M.G. Nadkarni
  • 2. Marginal quantiles : asymptotics for functions of order statistics / G.J. Babu
  • 3. Statistics on manifolds with applications to shape spaces / R. Bhattacharya and A. Bhattacharya
  • 4. Reinforcement learning
  • a bridge between numerical methods and Monte Carlo / V.S. Borkar
  • 5. Factors, roots and embeddings of measures on lie groups / S.G. Dani
  • 6. Higher criticism in the context of unknown distribution, non-independence and classification / A. Delaigle and P. Hall
  • 7. Bayesian nonparametric approach to multiple testing / S. Ghosal and A. Roy
  • 8. Bayesian inference on finite mixtures of distributions / K. Lee [and others]
  • 9. Markov processes generated by random iterates of monotone maps : theory and applications / M. Majumdar
  • 10. An invitation to quantum information theory / K.R. Parthasarathy
  • 11. Scaling limits / S.R.S. Varadhan.