TitleProbability and Information Theory [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the International Symposium at McMaster University, Canada, April, 1968 / edited by M. Behara, K. Krickeberg, J. Wolfowitz
ImprintBerlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1969
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0079113
Descript IV, 260 p. online resource

CONTENT

On different characterizations of entropies -- The structure of capacity functions for compound channels -- Boolean algebraic methods in Markov chains -- Maxima of partial sums -- Series expansions for random processes -- Glivenko-Cantelli type theorems for distance functions based on the modified empirical distribution function of M. Kac and for the empirical process with random sample size in general -- On the continuity of Markov processes -- Some mathematical problems in statistical mechanics -- Asymptotic behaviour of the average probability of error for low rates of information transmission -- On the optimum rate of transmitting information -- A necessary and sufficient condition for the validity of the local ergodic theorem -- Recent results on mixing in topological measure spaces -- Convergence in probability and allied results -- Applications of almost surely convergent constructions of weakly convergent processes -- Random processes defined through the interaction of an infinite particle system -- The central limit theorem and ?-entropy -- Maximum probability estimators with a general loss function


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Mathematical statistics
  3. Probabilities
  4. Popular works
  5. Mathematics
  6. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
  7. Probability and Statistics in Computer Science
  8. Popular Science
  9. general