Georges Matheron

Estimating and Choosing

An Essay on Probability in Practice
Übersetzung:Hasofer, A. M.

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Produktbeschreibung

Ever since the beginning of modern probability theory in the seventeenth century there has been a continuous debate over the meaning and applicability of the concept of probability. This book presents a coherent and well thoughtout framework for the use of probabilistic models to describe unique phenomena in a purely objective way. Although Estimating and Choosing was written with geostatistical applications in mind, the approach is of general applicability across the whole spectrum of probabilistic modelling. The only full-fledged treatment of the foundations of practical probability modelling ever written, this book fills an important gap in the literature of probability and statistics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-50087-2
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9783540500872
• ISBN-10: 3540500871
• Artikelnr.: 32113166

Inhaltsangabe

I A Quest for Objectivity.- 0 Introduction.- 1 Monod and the Concept of Chance or How to Overstep the Limits of Objectivity.- 2 Why we do not Agree with the Etruscans or On the Objectivity of Probabilistic Models.- II Criteria of Internal Objectivity in the Case of Unique Phenomena.- 3 The Poisson Forest.- 4 Choice and Hierarchy of Models.- 5 Sorting Out.- III Operational Reconstruction.- 6 Global Models.- 7 Local Models.- 8 Is Conditional Expectation Operational?.