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Theory and Practice of Risk Assessment
This book covers the latest results in the field of risk analysis. Presented topics include probabilistic models in cancer research, models and methods in longevity, epidemiology of cancer risk, engineering reliability and economical risk problems. The contributions of this volume originate from the 5th International Conference on Risk Analysis (ICRA 5). The conference brought together research…
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- 978-3-319-18029-8
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- 44 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
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New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science:Applications and Decision-m…
This book provides new insights on the study of global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics tools and the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book is that it gathers and presents extensive interdisciplinary expertise in the parameterization of global biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of globaliz…
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- 978-3-319-13977-7
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- XXXIII, 903
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- Environmental Earth Sciences
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Modelling and Control of Dynamic Systems Using Gaussian Process Models
This monograph opens up new horizons for engineers and researchers in academia and in industry dealing with or interested in new developments in the field of system identification and control. It emphasizes guidelines for working solutions and practical advice for their implementation rather than the theoretical background of Gaussian process (GP) models. The book demonstrates the potential of …
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- 978-3-319-21020-9
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- XVI, 267
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- Advances in Industrial Control
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Staying the Consumption Course
Diese Dissertation wurde zwischen 2011 bis 2014 am DFG Graduiertenkolleg „Pfade organisatorischer Prozesse“ der Freien Universität Berlin erarbeitet. Im Laufe des Prozesses, der nicht immer linear oder anspruchslos war, hatte ich Unterstützung zahlreicher Menschen. Ohne diese wäre die Arbeit in der vorliegenden Form nicht möglich gewesen, daher möchte ich ihnen an dieser Stelle dan…
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- 978-3-658-08788-3
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Status of Forces-Criminal Jurisdiction over Military Personnel Abroad
The legal status of armed forces stationed abroad is an important issue to all States and international organisations involved. Today the status of forces is often set out in Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs) defining the rights and obligations of the deployed forces. Key in these agreements is immunity of military personnel from criminal jurisdiction of host State courts, as follows from…
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Statistics of Financial Markets
The Global Financial Crisis (2007–2009) and the following European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2009–) have caused tremendous changes in the business, economy and governance. The spillover effect and globalization of the crisis affected millions and stated a genuine challenge for modern societies. Thus it was a task of extreme importance for us to revise our book and present actualized resear…
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- 978-3-642-54539-9
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Statistics for Non-Statisticians
Never have so many organizational decisions been taken based on statistics as today! Everything is supported by numbers. This applies to marketing, economics, social sciences, natural sciences, industry, and administrative work within organizations, businesses, and institutions. It is, therefore, important to have insight into basic statistical concepts, when assessing statistical data mater…
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- 978-3-662-49349-6
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Statistics for Mathematicians
This book is intended as a text for Mathematics students taking their first course in Statistics, and grew out of my second-year course for mathematics undergraduates at EPFL. It is a book on “Statistics for Mathematicians” rather than on “Mathematical Statistics”: the intent is not to focus on the deeper mathematical/theoretical aspects of the subject but rather to provide an intro…
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Statistics for Lawyers
second editions for an overview; what we wrote there is still relevant as an introduction to our subject and the method of the book. For the teacher who has used prior editions, this edition includes over twenty new sections, including the following: }1.5.4 (SIDS tragedies), }5.5.2 (State trooper literacy exam), }8.1.3 (Rheumatoid arthritis drug), }11.1.4 (Exonerations in death-sentence cas…
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- 978-1-4419-5985-0
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Statistics for Chemical and Process Engineers
The need for the development and understanding of large, complex data sets in a wide range of different fields, including economics, chemistry, chemical engineering, and control engineering is very important. In all these fields, the common thread is using these data sets for the development of models to forecast or predict future behaviour. Furthermore, the availability of fast computers ha…
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