Estimation of Dependences Based on Empirical Data Empirical Inference Science Afterword of 2006 /

• Main Author: Vapnik, Vladimir (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Information Science and Statistics,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Applications of Mathematics.

Twenty-?ve years have passed since the publication of the Russian version of the book Estimation of Dependencies Based on Empirical Data (EDBED for short). Twen- ?ve years is a long period of time. During these years many things have happened. Looking back, one can see how rapidly life and technolog...

Table of Contents:

• Realism and Instrumentalism: Classical Statistics and VC Theory (1960–1980)
• Falsifiability and Parsimony: VC Dimension and the Number of Entities (1980–2000)
• Noninductive Methods of Inference: Direct Inference Instead of Generalization (2000-...)
• The Big Picture.