Chaos: A Statistical Perspective
By: by Kung-Sik Chan, Howell Tong
Contributors: Tong, Howell
Series: Springer Series in Statistics; Springer series in statistics
Publisher: Springer New York
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781441929365; 9781475734645
Subjects: Mathematical statistics; Statistics; Mathematics; Distribution (Probability theory); Chemistry; Engineering
Description: This book discusses dynamical systems that are typically driven by stochastic dynamic noise. It is written by two statisticians essentially for the statistically inclined readers, although readers whose primary interests are in determinate systems will find some of the methodology explained in this book of interest. The statistical approach adopted in this book differs in many ways from the deterministic approach to dynamical systems. Even the very basic notion of initial-value sensitivity requires careful development in the new setting provided. This book covers, in varying depth, many of the contributions made by the statisticians in the past twenty years or so towards our understanding of estimation, the Lyapunov-like index, the nonparametric regression, and many others, many of which are motivated by their dynamical system counterparts but have now acquired a distinct statistical flavour. Kung-Sik Chan is a professor at the University of Iowa, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and Statistica Sinica. He received a Faculty Scholar Award from the University of Iowa in 1996. Howell Tong holds the Chair of Statistics at the London School of Economics and the University of Hong Kong. He is a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Council member of its Bernoulli Society, an elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an honorary fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (London). He was the Founding Dean of the Graduate School and sometimes the Acting Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Hong Kong. He has served on the editorial boards of several.
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