Screen LibraryEmpirical model building
A hands-on approach to the basic principles of empirical model building. Includes a series of real-world statistical problems illustrating modeling skills and techniques. Covers models of growth and decay, systems where competition and interaction add to the complexity of the model, and discusses bo...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics. Probability and mathematical statistics,
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470316788 |
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A hands-on approach to the basic principles of empirical model building. Includes a series of real-world statistical problems illustrating modeling skills and techniques. Covers models of growth and decay, systems where competition and interaction add to the complexity of the model, and discusses both classical and nonclassical data analysis methods. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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9780470316788 0470316780 9780470317457 (electronic bk.) 0470317450 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | QA279 |
| CLC: | O212 |
| Contents: | Empirical Model Building; Contents; Introduction; 1. Models of Growth and Decay; 2. Models of Competition, Combat, and Epidemic; 3. Simulation and the Coming Qualitative Change in Scientific ModeIing; 4. Some Techniques of Nonstandard Data Analysis; 5. Paradoxes and False Trails; Appendix; Index. |