Exploratory Data Analysis Using Fisher Information

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Frieden, B. Roy (Editor), Gatenby, Robert A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; Computers.; Database management.; Pattern recognition.; Mathematical analysis.; Analysis (Mathematics).; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Analysis.; Database Management.; Models and Principles.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Pattern Recognition.

The basic goal of a research scientist is to understand a given, unknown system. This innovative book develops a systematic approach for achieving this goal. All science is ultimately dependent upon observation which, in turn, requires a flow of information. Fisher information, in particular, is fou...

Table of Contents:

• to Fisher Information: Its Origin, Uses, and Predictions
• Financial Economics from Fisher Information
• Growth Characteristics of Organisms
• Information and Thermal Physics
• Parallel Information Phenomena of Biology and Astrophysics
• Encryption of Covert Information Through a Fisher Game
• Applications of Fisher Information to the Management of Sustainable Environmental Systems
• Fisher Information in Ecological Systems
• Sociohistory: An Information Theory of Social Changef.