An Introduction To Stochastic Orders

Author : Felix Belzunce,Carolina Martinez Riquelme,Julio Mulero
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780128038260

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An Introduction to Stochastic Orders by Felix Belzunce,Carolina Martinez Riquelme,Julio Mulero Pdf

An Introduction to Stochastic Orders discusses this powerful tool that can be used in comparing probabilistic models in different areas such as reliability, survival analysis, risks, finance, and economics. The book provides a general background on this topic for students and researchers who want to use it as a tool for their research. In addition, users will find detailed proofs of the main results and applications to several probabilistic models of interest in several fields, and discussions of fundamental properties of several stochastic orders, in the univariate and multivariate cases, along with applications to probabilistic models. Introduces stochastic orders and its notation Discusses different orders of univariate stochastic orders Explains multivariate stochastic orders and their convex, likelihood ratio, and dispersive orders

Author : Moshe Shaked,J. George Shanthikumar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387346755

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Stochastic Orders by Moshe Shaked,J. George Shanthikumar Pdf

This reference text presents comprehensive coverage of the various notions of stochastic orderings, their closure properties, and their applications. Some of these orderings are routinely used in many applications in economics, finance, insurance, management science, operations research, statistics, and various other fields. And the value of the other notions of stochastic orderings needs further exploration. This book is an ideal reference for those interested in decision making under uncertainty and interested in the analysis of complex stochastic systems. It is suitable as a text for advanced graduate course on stochastic ordering and applications.

Author : Moshe Shaked,J. George Shanthikumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015053523026

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Stochastic Orders and Their Applications by Moshe Shaked,J. George Shanthikumar Pdf

Stochastic orders and inequalities are being used at an accelerated rate in many diverse areas of probability and statistics. This book provides the first unified, systematic, and accessible treatment of stochasticorders, addressing the growing importance of these orders with the presentation of numerous results that illustrate their usefulness and applicability. Ten insightful chapters emphasize the applications by specialists in probability and statistics, economics, operations research, and reliability theory. Applications include multivariate variability, epidemics, comparisons of risk and risk aversion, scheduling, and systems reliability theory.

Author : Karl C. Mosler
Publisher : IMS
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 0940600269

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Stochastic Orders and Decision Under Risk by Karl C. Mosler Pdf

Author : Karl Mosler,Marco Scarsini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642499722

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Stochastic Orders and Applications by Karl Mosler,Marco Scarsini Pdf

A bibliography on stochastic orderings. Was there a real need for it? In a time of reference databases as the MathSci or the Science Citation Index or the Social Science Citation Index the answer seems to be negative. The reason we think that this bibliog raphy might be of some use stems from the frustration that we, as workers in the field, have often experienced by finding similar results being discovered and proved over and over in different journals of different disciplines with different levels of mathematical so phistication and accuracy and most of the times without cross references. Of course it would be very unfair to blame an economist, say, for not knowing a result in mathematical physics, or vice versa, especially when the problems and the languages are so far apart that it is often difficult to recognize the analogies even after further scrutiny. We hope that collecting the references on this topic, regardless of the area of application, will be of some help, at least to pinpoint the problem. We use the term stochastic ordering in a broad sense to denote any ordering relation on a space of probability measures. Questions that can be related to the idea of stochastic orderings are as old as probability itself. Think for instance of the problem of comparing two gambles in order to decide which one is more favorable.

Author : R. Szekli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461225287

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Stochastic Ordering and Dependence in Applied Probability by R. Szekli Pdf

This book is an introductionary course in stochastic ordering and dependence in the field of applied probability for readers with some background in mathematics. It is based on lectures and senlinars I have been giving for students at Mathematical Institute of Wroclaw University, and on a graduate course a.t Industrial Engineering Department of Texas A&M University, College Station, and addressed to a reader willing to use for example Lebesgue measure, conditional expectations with respect to sigma fields, martingales, or compensators as a common language in this field. In Chapter 1 a selection of one dimensional orderings is presented together with applications in the theory of queues, some parts of this selection are based on the recent literature (not older than five years). In Chapter 2 the material is centered around the strong stochastic ordering in many dimen sional spaces and functional spaces. Necessary facts about conditioning, Markov processes an"d point processes are introduced together with some classical results such as the product formula and Poissonian departure theorem for Jackson networks, or monotonicity results for some re newal processes, then results on stochastic ordering of networks, re~~ment policies and single server queues connected with Markov renewal processes are given. Chapter 3 is devoted to dependence and relations between dependence and ordering, exem plified by results on queueing networks and point processes among others.

Author : Karl Mosler,Marco Scarsini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3642499732

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Stochastic Orders and Applications by Karl Mosler,Marco Scarsini Pdf

A bibliography on stochastic orderings. Was there a real need for it? In a time of reference databases as the MathSci or the Science Citation Index or the Social Science Citation Index the answer seems to be negative. The reason we think that this bibliog raphy might be of some use stems from the frustration that we, as workers in the field, have often experienced by finding similar results being discovered and proved over and over in different journals of different disciplines with different levels of mathematical so phistication and accuracy and most of the times without cross references. Of course it would be very unfair to blame an economist, say, for not knowing a result in mathematical physics, or vice versa, especially when the problems and the languages are so far apart that it is often difficult to recognize the analogies even after further scrutiny. We hope that collecting the references on this topic, regardless of the area of application, will be of some help, at least to pinpoint the problem. We use the term stochastic ordering in a broad sense to denote any ordering relation on a space of probability measures. Questions that can be related to the idea of stochastic orderings are as old as probability itself. Think for instance of the problem of comparing two gambles in order to decide which one is more favorable.

Author : Robert P. Dobrow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781118740651

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Introduction to Stochastic Processes with R by Robert P. Dobrow Pdf

An introduction to stochastic processes through the use of R Introduction to Stochastic Processes with R is an accessible and well-balanced presentation of the theory of stochastic processes, with an emphasis on real-world applications of probability theory in the natural and social sciences. The use of simulation, by means of the popular statistical software R, makes theoretical results come alive with practical, hands-on demonstrations. Written by a highly-qualified expert in the field, the author presents numerous examples from a wide array of disciplines, which are used to illustrate concepts and highlight computational and theoretical results. Developing readers’ problem-solving skills and mathematical maturity, Introduction to Stochastic Processes with R features: More than 200 examples and 600 end-of-chapter exercises A tutorial for getting started with R, and appendices that contain review material in probability and matrix algebra Discussions of many timely and stimulating topics including Markov chain Monte Carlo, random walk on graphs, card shuffling, Black–Scholes options pricing, applications in biology and genetics, cryptography, martingales, and stochastic calculus Introductions to mathematics as needed in order to suit readers at many mathematical levels A companion web site that includes relevant data files as well as all R code and scripts used throughout the book Introduction to Stochastic Processes with R is an ideal textbook for an introductory course in stochastic processes. The book is aimed at undergraduate and beginning graduate-level students in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The book is also an excellent reference for applied mathematicians and statisticians who are interested in a review of the topic.

Author : Guanghui Lan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030395681

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First-order and Stochastic Optimization Methods for Machine Learning by Guanghui Lan Pdf

This book covers not only foundational materials but also the most recent progresses made during the past few years on the area of machine learning algorithms. In spite of the intensive research and development in this area, there does not exist a systematic treatment to introduce the fundamental concepts and recent progresses on machine learning algorithms, especially on those based on stochastic optimization methods, randomized algorithms, nonconvex optimization, distributed and online learning, and projection free methods. This book will benefit the broad audience in the area of machine learning, artificial intelligence and mathematical programming community by presenting these recent developments in a tutorial style, starting from the basic building blocks to the most carefully designed and complicated algorithms for machine learning.

Author : Subhash C. Kochar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783031121043

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Stochastic Comparisons with Applications by Subhash C. Kochar Pdf

This book emphasizes the use of stochastic orders as motivational tools for developing new statistical procedures. Stochastic orders have found useful applications in many disciplines, including reliability theory, survival analysis, risk theory, finance, nonparametric methods, economics and actuarial science. Written by a statistician, this volume clarifies the connection between stochastic orders and nonparametric methods. The importance of order statistics and spacings is well recognized. Classically, they mainly focus on the case when the observations are independent and identically distributed, however, several new developments have extended the comparison of order statistics to the case of non-identically distributed or non-independent observations. In addition to giving a detailed discussion of various topics in the general area of stochastic orders, a substantial part of the book is devoted to recent research on stochastic comparisons of order statistics and spacings, including a long chapter on dependence among them. The book will be useful for graduate students and researchers in statistics, economics, actuarial science and other related disciplines. In particular, with close to 300 references, it will be a valuable resource for reliability theorists, applied probabilists and statisticians. Readers are expected to have taken a first-year graduate level course in mathematical statistics or in applied probability.

Author : Christian Borgelt,Gil González Rodríguez,Wolfgang Trutschnig,María Asunción Lubiano,María Angeles Gil,Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski,Olgierd Hryniewicz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642147463

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Combining Soft Computing and Statistical Methods in Data Analysis by Christian Borgelt,Gil González Rodríguez,Wolfgang Trutschnig,María Asunción Lubiano,María Angeles Gil,Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski,Olgierd Hryniewicz Pdf

Over the last forty years there has been a growing interest to extend probability theory and statistics and to allow for more flexible modelling of imprecision, uncertainty, vagueness and ignorance. The fact that in many real-life situations data uncertainty is not only present in the form of randomness (stochastic uncertainty) but also in the form of imprecision/fuzziness is but one point underlining the need for a widening of statistical tools. Most such extensions originate in a "softening" of classical methods, allowing, in particular, to work with imprecise or vague data, considering imprecise or generalized probabilities and fuzzy events, etc. About ten years ago the idea of establishing a recurrent forum for discussing new trends in the before-mentioned context was born and resulted in the first International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics (SMPS) that was held in Warsaw in 2002. In the following years the conference took place in Oviedo (2004), in Bristol (2006) and in Toulouse (2008). In the current edition the conference returns to Oviedo. This edited volume is a collection of papers presented at the SMPS 2010 conference held in Mieres and Oviedo. It gives a comprehensive overview of current research into the fusion of soft methods with probability and statistics.

Author : Erhan Cinlar
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486276328

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Introduction to Stochastic Processes by Erhan Cinlar Pdf

Clear presentation employs methods that recognize computer-related aspects of theory. Topics include expectations and independence, Bernoulli processes and sums of independent random variables, Markov chains, renewal theory, more. 1975 edition.

Author : Haijun Li,Xiaohu Li
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781461468929

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Stochastic Orders in Reliability and Risk by Haijun Li,Xiaohu Li Pdf

Stochastic Orders in Reliability and Risk Management is composed of 19 contributions on the theory of stochastic orders, stochastic comparison of order statistics, stochastic orders in reliability and risk analysis, and applications. These review/exploratory chapters present recent and current research on stochastic orders reported at the International Workshop on Stochastic Orders in Reliability and Risk Management, or SORR2011, which took place in the City Hotel, Xiamen, China, from June 27 to June 29, 2011. The conference’s talks and invited contributions also represent the celebration of Professor Moshe Shaked, who has made comprehensive, fundamental contributions to the theory of stochastic orders and its applications in reliability, queueing modeling, operations research, economics and risk analysis. This volume is in honor of Professor Moshe Shaked. The work presented in this volume represents active research on stochastic orders and multivariate dependence, and exemplifies close collaborations between scholars working in different fields. The Xiamen Workshop and this volume seek to revive the community workshop tradition on stochastic orders and dependence and strengthen research collaboration, while honoring the work of a distinguished scholar.

Author : Roe Goodman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486450377

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Introduction to Stochastic Models by Roe Goodman Pdf

Newly revised by the author, this undergraduate-level text introduces the mathematical theory of probability and stochastic processes. Using both computer simulations and mathematical models of random events, it comprises numerous applications to the physical and biological sciences, engineering, and computer science. Subjects include sample spaces, probabilities distributions and expectations of random variables, conditional expectations, Markov chains, and the Poisson process. Additional topics encompass continuous-time stochastic processes, birth and death processes, steady-state probabilities, general queuing systems, and renewal processes. Each section features worked examples, and exercises appear at the end of each chapter, with numerical solutions at the back of the book. Suggestions for further reading in stochastic processes, simulation, and various applications also appear at the end.

Author : Dario Basso,Fortunato Pesarin,Luigi Salmaso,Aldo Solari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780387859569

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Permutation Tests for Stochastic Ordering and ANOVA by Dario Basso,Fortunato Pesarin,Luigi Salmaso,Aldo Solari Pdf

Permutation testing for multivariate stochastic ordering and ANOVA designs is a fundamental issue in many scientific fields such as medicine, biology, pharmaceutical studies, engineering, economics, psychology, and social sciences. This book presents new advanced methods and related R codes to perform complex multivariate analyses. The prerequisites are a standard course in statistics and some background in multivariate analysis and R software.