| Scan Statistics and Applications 1999 Edition Contributor(s): Glaz, Joseph (Editor), Balakrishnan, N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 081764041X ISBN-13: 9780817640415 Publisher: Birkhauser OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: Scan statistics are used in many areas of science and technology to analyze the occurence of observed clusters of events in time and space. The goal is to determine whether an observed cluster of events occurred by chance if it is assumed that the observed events follow a specified probability model. Scan Statistics and Applications is a comprehensive, edited survey that brings together the work of leading authorities to present the most current advances in theory and methodology for this new area of statistical research and application. The chapters contain broad coverage of theory and new analytical and computational methods and techniques in four categories: introductory survey, discrete scan statistics, continuous scan statistics, and applications. Features and Topics: * Comprehensive introductory survey chapter * Discrete scan statistics * Finite Markov chain imbedding * Continuous scan statistics * Spatial scan statistics * Applications in DNA sequence analysis * Monte Carlo approaches to testing order statistics and spacing The book is a valuable resource and state-of-the-art reference for all practitioners, researchers, and professionals in applied probability and statistics who use scan statistics in their work.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Applied - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - Multivariate Analysis - Mathematics | Counting & Numeration |
| Dewey: 519.5 |
| LCCN: 99020200 |
| Series: Statistics for Industry and Technology |
| Physical Information: 0.87" H x 7.24" W x 10.3" (1.80 lbs) 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The study of scan statistics and their applications to many different scientific and engineering problems have received considerable attention in the literature recently. In addition to challenging theoretical problems, the area of scan statis- tics has also found exciting applications in diverse disciplines such as archaeol- ogy, astronomy, epidemiology, geography, material science, molecular biology, reconnaissance, reliability and quality control, sociology, and telecommunica- tion. This will be clearly evident when one goes through this volume. In this volume, we have brought together a collection of experts working in this area of research in order to review some of the developments that have taken place over the years and also to present their new works and point out some open problems. With this in mind, we selected authors for this volume with some having theoretical interests and others being primarily concerned with applications of scan statistics. Our sincere hope is that this volume will thus provide a comprehensive survey of all the developments in this area of research and hence will serve as a valuable source as well as reference for theoreticians and applied researchers. Graduate students interested in this area will find this volume to be particularly useful as it points out many open challenging problems that they could pursue. This volume will also be appropriate for teaching a graduate-level special course on this topic. |