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The Fundamentals of Heavy Tails: Properties, Emergence, and Estimation

The Fundamentals of Heavy Tails: Properties, Emergence, and Estimation - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jayakrishnan Nair, Adam Wierman, Bert ZwartSeries:Cambridge Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics #53Publish date:2022-09-29Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316511732ISBN-10:1316511731UPC:9781316511732Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:Probability & StatisticsSize:10.00 x 7.20 x 0.67 inchesWeight:1.4903Product ID:SCMPE2X280
Heavy tails -extreme events or values more common than expected -emerge everywhere: the economy, natural events, and social and information networks are just a few examples. Yet after decades of progress, they are still treated as mysterious, surprising, and even controversial, primarily because the necessary mathematical models and statistical methods are not widely known. This book, for the first time, provides a rigorous introduction to heavy-tailed distributions accessible to anyone who knows elementary probability. It tackles and tames the zoo of terminology for models and properties, demystifying topics such as the generalized central limit theorem and regular variation. It tracks the natural emergence of heavy-tailed distributions from a wide variety of general processes, building intuition. And it reveals the controversy surrounding heavy tails to be the result of flawed statistics, then equips readers to identify and estimate with confidence. Over 100 exercises complete this engaging package.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781316511732ISBN-10:1316511731UPC:9781316511732Book Category:MathematicsBook Subcategory:Probability & StatisticsSize:10.00 x 7.20 x 0.67 inchesWeight:1.4903Product ID:SCMPE2X280
Nair, Jayakrishnan: - Jayakrishnan Nair is Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at IIT Bombay. His research focuses on modeling, performance evaluation, and design issues in online learning environments, communication networks, queueing systems, and smart power grids. He is the recipient of best paper awards at IFIP Performance (2010 and 2020) and ACM e-Energy (2020).Wierman, Adam: - Adam Wierman is Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His research develops tools in machine learning, optimization, control, and economics with the goal of making the networked systems that govern our world sustainable and resilient. He is best known for his work spearheading the design of algorithms for sustainable data centers and he is the recipient of numerous awards including the ACM Sigmetrics Rising Star award, the ACM Sigmetrics Test of Time award, the IEEE Communication Society William Bennet Prize, and multiple teaching and best paper awards.Zwart, Bert: - Bert Zwart is group leader at CWI Amsterdam and Professor of Mathematics at Eindhoven University of Technology. He has expertise in stochastic operations research, queueing theory, and large deviations, and in the context of heavy tails, he has focused on sample path properties, designing Monte Carlo methods and applications to computer-communication and energy networks. He was area editor of Operations Research, the flagship journal of his profession, from 2009 to 2017, and was the recipient of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society Erlang prize, awarded every two years to an outstanding young applied probabilist.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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