Empirical model building : data, models, and reality /

• Main Author: Thompson, James R. (James Robert), 1938-
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Wiley, 2011.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Series: Wiley series in probability and statistics ; 794
• Subjects: Experimental design.; Mathematical models.; Mathematical statistics.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Models of Growth and Decay
• Models of Competition, Survival, and Combat
• Epidemics
• Bootstrapping
• Monte Carlo Solutions of Differential Equations
• SIMDAT, SIMEST, and Pseudoreality
• Exploratory Data Analysis
• Noise Killing Chaos
• A Primer in Bayesian Data Analysis
• Multivariate and Robust Procedures in Statistical Process Control
• Considerations for Optimization and Estimation in the Real (Noisy) World
• Utility and Group Preference
• A Primer in Sampling
• The Stock Market: Strategies Based on Data versus Strategies Based on Ideology
• Appendix A: A Brief Introduction to Probability and Statistics
• Appendix B: Statistical Tables
• Index
• Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics.