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. Ed(S): Bilodeau, Michel; Meyer, Fernand; Schmitt, Michel - Space, Structure and Randomness - 9780387203317 - V9780387203317
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Space, Structure and Randomness

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Description for Space, Structure and Randomness Paperback. Divided into three main sections: random sets, geostatistics and mathematical morphology. Editor(s): Bilodeau, Michel; Meyer, Fernand; Schmitt, Michel. Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics. Num Pages: 416 pages, 121 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 702.

Space, structure, and randomness: these are the three key concepts underlying Georges Matheron’s scientific work. He first encountered them at the beginning of his career when working as a mining engineer, and then they resurfaced in fields ranging from meteorology to microscopy. What could these radically different types of applications possibly have in common? First, in each one only a single realisation of the phenomenon is available for study, but its features repeat themselves in space; second, the sampling pattern is rarely regular, and finally there are problems of change of scale.

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When GM tackled practical problems, he used his skill as a physicist to extract the salient features and to select variables which could be measured meaningfully and whose values could be estimated from the available data. Then he used his outstanding ability as a mathematician to solve the problems neatly and efficiently. It was his capacity to combine a physicist’s intuition with a mathematician’s analytical skills that allowed him to produce new and innovative solutions to difficult problems.

The book should appeal to graduate students and researchers working in mathematics, probability, statistics, physics, spatial data analysis, and image analysis. In addition it will be of interest to those who enjoy discovering links between scientific disciplines that seem unrelated at first glance. In writing the book the contributors have tried to put GM’s ideas into perspective. During his working life, GM was a genuinely creative scientist. He developed innovativeconcepts whose usefulness goes far beyond the confines of the discipline for which they were originally designed. This is why his work remains as pertinent today as it was when it was first written.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Series
Lecture Notes in Statistics
Number of Pages
398
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387203317
SKU
V9780387203317
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