Characteristic Functions and Moment Sequences

Characteristic Functions and Moment Sequences
Author: Torben Maack Bisgaard
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2000
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781560728603

This book contains basic information on characteristic functions and moment sequences that is frequently used in probability theory. Characteristic functions and moment sequences are viewed as special cases of positive definite functions. Positive definite functions occur in diverse parts of mathematics, e.g. in operator theory, moment problems, complex function theory, embedding problems, integral equations, and other areas. However, the area of mathematics in which the largest number of people use positive definite functions (some without knowing it) seems to be that of probability theory.

Moment Problems and Subsequences of Moment Sequences

Moment Problems and Subsequences of Moment Sequences
Author: Saroj Aryal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2011
Genre: Moment problems (Mathematics)
ISBN: 9781267173195

The well-known theorems of Stieltjes, Hamburger and Hausdorff establish conditions on infinite sequences of real numbers to be the moments corresponding to functions in various spaces. Further works by Carathéodory, Schur and Nevanlinna connect moment problems to problems in function theory. In many problems associated with realization of a signal or an image, data may be corrupted or missing. Reconstruction of a function from moment sequences with missing elements is an interesting problem leading to several advances in image and/or signal reconstruction. It is easy to show that a subsequence of a moment sequence may not be a moment sequence. Conditions are obtained to show how rigid the space of sub-moment sequences of a moment sequence is. Some characteristics of the spaces of functions reconstructed from sub-moment problems are explored.

Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics - 3rd Edition

Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics - 3rd Edition
Author: Marco Taboga
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2017-12-08
Genre: Mathematical statistics
ISBN: 9781981369195

The book is a collection of 80 short and self-contained lectures covering most of the topics that are usually taught in intermediate courses in probability theory and mathematical statistics. There are hundreds of examples, solved exercises and detailed derivations of important results. The step-by-step approach makes the book easy to understand and ideal for self-study. One of the main aims of the book is to be a time saver: it contains several results and proofs, especially on probability distributions, that are hard to find in standard references and are scattered here and there in more specialistic books. The topics covered by the book are as follows. PART 1 - MATHEMATICAL TOOLS: set theory, permutations, combinations, partitions, sequences and limits, review of differentiation and integration rules, the Gamma and Beta functions. PART 2 - FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY: events, probability, independence, conditional probability, Bayes' rule, random variables and random vectors, expected value, variance, covariance, correlation, covariance matrix, conditional distributions and conditional expectation, independent variables, indicator functions. PART 3 - ADDITIONAL TOPICS IN PROBABILITY THEORY: probabilistic inequalities, construction of probability distributions, transformations of probability distributions, moments and cross-moments, moment generating functions, characteristic functions. PART 4 - PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: Bernoulli, binomial, Poisson, uniform, exponential, normal, Chi-square, Gamma, Student's t, F, multinomial, multivariate normal, multivariate Student's t, Wishart. PART 5 - MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION: linear combinations, quadratic forms, partitions. PART 6 - ASYMPTOTIC THEORY: sequences of random vectors and random variables, pointwise convergence, almost sure convergence, convergence in probability, mean-square convergence, convergence in distribution, relations between modes of convergence, Laws of Large Numbers, Central Limit Theorems, Continuous Mapping Theorem, Slutsky's Theorem. PART 7 - FUNDAMENTALS OF STATISTICS: statistical inference, point estimation, set estimation, hypothesis testing, statistical inferences about the mean, statistical inferences about the variance.

Counterexamples in Probability

Counterexamples in Probability
Author: Jordan M. Stoyanov
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486499987

"While most mathematical examples illustrate the truth of a statement, counterexamples demonstrate a statement's falsity. Enjoyable topics of study, counterexamples are valuable tools for teaching and learning. The definitive book on the subject in regards to probability, this third edition features the author's revisions and corrections plus a substantial new appendix. 2013 edition"--

Multivariable Operator Theory

Multivariable Operator Theory
Author: Ernst Albrecht
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 893
Release: 2024-01-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3031505352

Over the course of his distinguished career, Jörg Eschmeier made a number of fundamental contributions to the development of operator theory and related topics. The chapters in this volume, compiled in his memory, are written by distinguished mathematicians and pay tribute to his many significant and lasting achievements.

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations
Author: Hiroshi Yokota
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 8732
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 100017381X

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations contains lectures and papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2020), held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, April 11–15, 2021. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts and a USB card containing the full papers of 571 contributions presented at IABMAS 2020, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, 9 Keynote Lectures, and 561 technical papers from 40 countries. The contributions presented at IABMAS 2020 deal with the state of the art as well as emerging concepts and innovative applications related to the main aspects of maintenance, safety, management, life-cycle sustainability and technological innovations of bridges. Major topics include: advanced bridge design, construction and maintenance approaches, safety, reliability and risk evaluation, life-cycle management, life-cycle sustainability, standardization, analytical models, bridge management systems, service life prediction, maintenance and management strategies, structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing and field testing, safety, resilience, robustness and redundancy, durability enhancement, repair and rehabilitation, fatigue and corrosion, extreme loads, and application of information and computer technology and artificial intelligence for bridges, among others. This volume provides both an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering and significant contributions to the process of making more rational decisions on maintenance, safety, management, life-cycle sustainability and technological innovations of bridges for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. The Editors hope that these Proceedings will serve as a valuable reference to all concerned with bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including engineers, researchers, academics and students from all areas of bridge engineering.

Introduction to Statistical Limit Theory

Introduction to Statistical Limit Theory
Author: Alan M. Polansky
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 645
Release: 2011-01-07
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1420076612

Helping students develop a good understanding of asymptotic theory, Introduction to Statistical Limit Theory provides a thorough yet accessible treatment of common modes of convergence and their related tools used in statistics. It also discusses how the results can be applied to several common areas in the field.The author explains as much of the

Principles of Statistical Inference

Principles of Statistical Inference
Author: Luigi Pace
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1997-08-05
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9789812386946

In this book, an integrated introduction to statistical inference is provided from a frequentist likelihood-based viewpoint. Classical results are presented together with recent developments, largely built upon ideas due to R.A. Fisher. The term ?neo-Fisherian? highlights this.After a unified review of background material (statistical models, likelihood, data and model reduction, first-order asymptotics) and inference in the presence of nuisance parameters (including pseudo-likelihoods), a self-contained introduction is given to exponential families, exponential dispersion models, generalized linear models, and group families. Finally, basic results of higher-order asymptotics are introduced (index notation, asymptotic expansions for statistics and distributions, and major applications to likelihood inference).The emphasis is more on general concepts and methods than on regularity conditions. Many examples are given for specific statistical models. Each chapter is supplemented with problems and bibliographic notes. This volume can serve as a textbook in intermediate-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in statistical inference.