The mathematics of the uncertain : a tribute to Pedro Gil /: a tribute to Pedro Gil. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eduardo Gil, Eva Gil, Juan Gil, María Ángeles Gil, editors.
• Editors: Gil, Eduardo; Gil, Eva; Gil, Juan, 1968-; Gil, María Á (Maria-Ángeles)
• Other Names: Gil, Pedro honouree.
• Contents: Intro; Foreword; Preface; Contents; Part I Pedro Gil's Vision on the Mathematics of the Uncertain; The Mathematics of the Uncertain; 1 The Mathematics of Chance: Probability Calculus and Statistics; 1.1 The Use of Statistics...; 1.2 ...and the Abuse of Statistics; 1.3 Polls and More; 2 The Mathematics of Communication: Information Theory; 2.1 Coding and Cryptology; 2.2 Chicken and Egg: Information or Probability?; 3 The Mathematics of Imprecision: Fuzzy Sets; 3.1 Fuzzy Technology and...; 4 Epilogue; Part II The Mathematics of Chance: Probability, Statistics and Applications Using Mathematica to Calculate Shortest Confidence Intervals1 Preliminaries; 2 Confidence Interval for the Variance and Standard Deviation of a Normal; 3 Confidence Interval for Ratios of Variances and Standard Deviations of Independent Normal Distributions; 4 Bayesian Confidence Intervals; References; An Optimal Transportation Approach for Assessing Almost Stochastic Order; 1 Introduction; 2 Main Results; 3 Appendix; References; An Alternative to the Variation Coefficient; 1 Introduction; 2 Definition of a New Coefficient 3 The Trimmed Representation Coefficient for a Normally Distributed Random Variable4 Interpretation of the Trimmed Representation Coefficient; 5 Trimmed Representation Coefficient for Other Theoretical Distributions; References; Nonparametric Mean Estimation for Big-But-Biased Data; 1 Introduction; 2 The Samples and Their Sizes; 3 Mean Estimation in B3D; 4 Case Study with Simulated Data; References; Band Depths Based on Multiple Time Instances; 1 Introduction; 2 Regions Formed by Samples in Functional Spaces; 3 Simplicial-Type Band Depths; 4 Data Examples; References On the Combination of Depth-Based Ranks1 Introduction; 2 Depths, Depth-Based Ranks, and Control Charts; 3 The Proposal; 4 Comparison Results; 5 Application; References; A Bayesian Network Model for the Probabilistic Safety Assessment of Roads; 1 Introduction; 2 Building the Bayesian Network; 3 Learning the Bayesian Network Model; 4 Network Partition; 5 Example of Application; 6 Conclusions; References; The Spiking Problem in the Context of the Isotonic Regression; 1 Introduction; 2 The New Procedures; 3 Simulations; 4 Discussion and Acknowledgement; References Estimation of the Inter-occurrence Time Between Events from Incomplete Data. Analysis of Periods of Unemployment in Spain1 Introduction. Objectives and Methodology; 2 Redistribution of the Observations. Correction of the Heaping Effect; 3 Conditional Mean Estimation for Each Sex over the Different Age Ranges; 4 Non-parametric Estimation of Conditional Distributions and Quantile Comparison; References; Modelling Dynamic Hotel Pricing with Isotonic Functions; 1 Introduction; 2 Data Sources and Methodology; 3 Research Findings and Conclusion; References On Multistage Stochastic Mixed 0 -- 1 Optimization with Time-Consistent Stochastic Dominance Risk Averse Management
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxv, 917 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 519.5; Engineering; Mathematical statistics; Uncertainty -- Mathematical models; MATHEMATICS / Applied; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General; Mathematical statistics; Uncertainty -- Mathematical models; Engineering; Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Systems Theory, Control; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Computers -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics; Science -- System Theory; Business & Economics -- Operations Research; Artificial intelligence; Cybernetics & systems theory; Operational research; Artificial intelligence; Systems theory; Operations research; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319738482; 3319738488
• Related ISBNs: 9783319738475; 331973847X
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 6, 2018).
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