The Craft of Probabilistic Modelling A Collection of Personal Accounts
This book brings together the personal accounts and reflections of nineteen mathematical model-builders, whose specialty is probabilistic modelling. The reader may well wonder why, apart from personal interest, one should commission and edit such a collection of articles. There are, of course, many...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1986, 1986
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1986 |
| Series: | Applied Probability
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Early Craftsmen
- Crafty Modelling
- Looking at Life Quantitatively
- Remembrance of Things Past
- A Boy from the Bush
- 2 The Craft Organized
- An Improbable Path
- Some Samples of Modelling
- Markovian Models—An Essay
- Probability Modelling Across the Continents
- Chance or Determinism?
- Diffusion Models of Population Genetics in the Age of Molecular Biology
- Return of the Wanderer: a Physicist Becomes a Probabilist
- In the Late Afternoon
- The Making of a Queueing Theorist
- 3 The Craft in Development
- An Algorithmic Probabilist’s Apology
- Probability, Earthquakes and Travel Abroad
- From Information Theory to Quantum Mechanics
- From Real Analysis to Probability: Autobiographical Notes
- The Path to the Genetics Sampling Formula
- In and Out of Applied Probability in Australia