Estimating and Choosing
Subtitle: An Essay on Probability in Practice
By: by Georges Matheron
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9783540500872; 9783642488177
Subjects: Engineering; Engineering mathematics
Description: 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.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: A Quest for Objectivity; title: Criteria of Internal Objectivity in the Case of Unique Phenomena; title: Operational Reconstruction.