Unimodality of Probability Measures (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)

Labor omnia vincit improbus. VIRGIL, Georgica I, 144-145. In the first part of his Theoria combinationis observationum erroribus min- imis obnoxiae, published in 1821, Carl Friedrich Gauss [Gau80, p.10] deduces a Chebyshev-type inequality for a probability density function, when it only has the property that its value always decreases, or at least does l not increase, if the absolute value of x increases . One may therefore conjecture that Gauss is one of the first scientists to use the property of 'single-humpedness' of a probability density function in a meaningful probabilistic context. More than seventy years later, zoologist W.F.R. Weldon was faced with 'double- humpedness'. Indeed, discussing peculiarities of a population of Naples crabs, possi- bly connected to natural selection, he writes to Karl Pearson (E.S. Pearson [Pea78, p.328]): Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hath He perfected praise! In the last few evenings I have wrestled with a double humped curve, and have overthrown it. Enclosed is the diagram...If you scoff at this, I shall never forgive you. Not only did Pearson not scoff at this bimodal probability density function, he examined it and succeeded in decomposing it into two 'single-humped curves' in his first statistical memoir (Pearson [Pea94]).

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Mathematics and Its Applications, 382
Release date:	2001
First published:	1997
Authors:	Emile M.J. Bertin • I. Cuculescu • Radu Theodorescu
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	1997 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-4318-9
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Stochastics Promotions
LSN:	0-7923-4318-2
Barcode:	9780792343189

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