Beschreibung:
Stochastic Modeling of Scientific Data combines stochastic modeling and statistical inference in a variety of standard and less common models, such as point processes, Markov random fields and hidden Markov models in a clear, thoughtful and succinct manner.
Table of contents; Discrete time Markov chains; Continuous time Markov chains; Markov random fields; Point processes; Brownian motion and diffusion; Appendix 1: Statistical theory for the multinomial distribution; Appendix 2: Linear difference equations with constant coefficients; Appendix 3: Some theory of partial differential equations.