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Estimating and Choosing

An Essay on Probability in Practice

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Georges Matheron

    1. Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris, Centre de Géostatistique et de Morphologie Mathématique, Fontainebleau, France

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. A Quest for Objectivity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Georges Matheron
      Pages 3-8

    3. Monod and the Concept of Chance or How to Overstep the Limits of Objectivity

      • Georges Matheron
      Pages 9-20

    4. Why we do not Agree with the Etruscans or On the Objectivity of Probabilistic Models

      • Georges Matheron
      Pages 21-46

  3. Criteria of Internal Objectivity in the Case of Unique Phenomena

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. The Poisson Forest

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      Pages 49-58

    3. Choice and Hierarchy of Models

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      Pages 59-77

    4. Sorting out

      • Georges Matheron
      Pages 78-96

  4. Operational Reconstruction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Global Models

      • Georges Matheron
      Pages 99-118

    3. Local Models

      • Georges Matheron
      Pages 119-131

    4. Is Conditional Expectation Operational?

      • Georges Matheron
      Pages 132-141
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About this book

Ever since the beginning of modern probability theory in the seventeenth century there has been a continuous debate over the meaning and applicability of the concept of probability. This book presents a coherent and well thoughtout framework for the use of probabilistic models to describe unique phenomena in a purely objective way. Although Estimating and Choosing was written with geostatistical applications in mind, the approach is of general applicability across the whole spectrum of probabilistic modelling. The only full-fledged treatment of the foundations of practical probability modelling ever written, this book fills an important gap in the literature of probability and statistics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris, Centre de Géostatistique et de Morphologie Mathématique, Fontainebleau, France

    Georges Matheron

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Estimating and Choosing

  • Book Subtitle: An Essay on Probability in Practice

  • Authors: Georges Matheron

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48817-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-50087-2Published: 28 December 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-48817-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 141

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Building Construction and Design

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