Applied Probability

• Main Author: Lange, Kenneth (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2003.
• Series: Springer Texts in Statistics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

Despite the fears of university mathematics departments, mathematics educat,ion is growing rather than declining. But the truth of the matter is that the increases are occurring outside departments of mathematics. Engineers, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, economists, statis- cians, biolo...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Principles of Population Genetics
• Counting Methods and the EM Algorithm
• Newton’s Method and Scoring
• Hypothesis Testing and Categorical Data
• Genetic Identity Coefficients
• Applications of Identity Coefficients
• Computation of Mendelian Likelihoods
• The Polygenic Model
• Descent Graph Methods
• Molecular Phylogeny
• Radiation Hybrid Mapping
• Models of Recombination
• Sequence Analysis
• Poisson Approximation
• Diffusion Processes.