| A Practical Guide to Heavy Tails: Statistical Techniques and Applications 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Adler, Robert (Editor), Feldman, Raya (Editor), Taqqu, Murad (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0817639519 ISBN-13: 9780817639518 Publisher: Birkhauser OUR PRICE: $189.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 1998 Annotation: This volume contains a unique collection of mathematical essays that resent a battery of techniques and approaches for the statistical analysis of heavy tailed distributions and processes. The articles cover a number of applications of heavy tailed modeling, running the gamut from insurance and finance, to telecommunications and the World Wide Web, and classical signal/noise detection problems. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Applied - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Computers | Computer Science |
| Dewey: 519.24 |
| LCCN: 97008731 |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 7.29" W x 10.26" (2.55 lbs) 534 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Presents techniques and approaches for the statistical analysis of heavy-tailed distributions and processes, with a focus on applicability rather than theory. Emphasis is placed upon numerical problems associated with stable distributions, time series analysis and regression. |