Adam Wierman: The Fundamentals of Heavy Tails

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Cover: 9781316511732 | The Fundamentals of Heavy Tails | Jayakrishnan Nair (u. a.) | Buch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Commonly used notation; 1. Introduction; Part I. Properties: 2. Scale invariance, power laws, and regular variation; 3. Catastrophes, conspiracies, and subexponential distributions; 4. Residual lives, hazard rates, and long tails; Part II. Emergence: 5. Additive processes; 6. Multiplicative processes; 7. Extremal processes; Part III. Estimation: 8. Estimating power-law distributions: Listen to the body; 9. Estimating power-law tails: Let the tail do the talking; References; Index.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Kommunikationswissenschaften
Genre:	Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	264
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781316511732
ISBN-10:	1316511731
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wierman, Adam Zwart, Bert Nair, Jayakrishnan
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Maße:	255 x 178 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Adam Wierman (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.06.2022
Gewicht:	0,684 kg

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