Collection(s) : Real life mathematics
Paru le 01/04/2013 | Cartonné 208 pages
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In real life situations, one rarely has desirably detailed information. It is sometimes incomplete, sometimes corrupted, or with missing or erroneous data. Conversely, some pieces of information do exist. Therefore, there is a natural wish : to try to use the existing information in order to reconstruct some missing items. However, this should be done with two constraints :
This is precisely the topic of this book. We show how to « propagate » the information, from a place where it exists to a place where we want to use it ; this propagation deteriorates with the distance, somewhat as a gravitational field decreases with the distance.
The book is organized in three parts : the first part presents the basic rules, accessible with no specific expertise in probabilities ; the second presents the applications to real world problems, and the third part gives the theory.
Olga Zeydina, PhD in Probabilistic Methods for Nuclear Safety, has been Research Engineer at the Société de Calcul Mathématique SA, since 2006.
Bernard Beauzamy, University Professor (1979-1995), founded SCM SA in 1995 and since then has been Chairman of this company.
