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Winner of the 2009 Japan Statistical Association Publication Prize. The Akaike information criterion (AIC) derived as an estimator of the Kullback-Leibler information discrepancy provides a useful tool for evaluating statistical models, and numerous successful applications of the AIC have been reported in various fields of natural sciences, social sciences and engineering. One of the main objectives of this book is to provide comprehensive explanations of the concepts and derivations of the AIC and related criteria, including Schwarz’s Bayesian information criterion (BIC), together with a wide range of practical examples of model selection and evaluation criteria. A secondary objective is to provide a theoretical basis for the analysis and extension of information criteria via a statistical functional approach. A generalized information criterion (GIC) and a bootstrap information criterion are presented, which provide unified tools for modeling and model evaluation for a diverse range of models, including various types of nonlinear models and model estimation procedures such as robust estimation, the maximum penalized likelihood method and a Bayesian approach. Sadanori Konishi is Professor of Faculty of Mathematics at Kyushu University. His primary research interests are in multivariate analysis, statistical learning, pattern recognition and nonlinear statistical modeling. He is the editor of the Bulletin of Informatics and Cybernetics and is co-author of several Japanese books. He was awarded the Japan Statistical Society Prize in 2004 and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Genshiro Kitagawa is Director-General of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics and Professor of Statistical Science at the Graduate University for Advanced Study. His primary interests are in time series analysis, non-Gaussian nonlinear filtering and statistical modeling. He is the executive editor of the Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, co-author of Smoothness Priors Analysis of Time Series, Akaike Information Criterion Statistics, and several Japanese books. He was awarded the Japan Statistical Society Prize in 1997 and Ishikawa Prize in 1999, and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Stochastic analysis. --- Information modeling. --- Mathematical analysis. --- 517.1 Mathematical analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Modeling, Information --- System analysis --- Analysis, Stochastic --- Stochastic processes

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Function Theory in the Unit Ball of Cn. From the reviews: "…The book is easy on the reader. The prerequisites are minimal—just the standard graduate introduction to real analysis, complex analysis (one variable), and functional analysis. This presentation is unhurried and the author does most of the work. …certainly a valuable reference book, and (even though there are no exercises) could be used as a text in advanced courses." R. Rochberg in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. "…an excellent introduction to one of the most active research fields of complex analysis. …As the author emphasizes, the principal ideas can be presented clearly and explicitly in the ball, specific theorems can be quickly proved. …Mathematics lives in the book: main ideas of theorems and proofs, essential features of the subjects, lines of further developments, problems and conjectures are continually underlined. …Numerous examples throw light on the results as well as on the difficulties." C. Andreian Cazacu in Zentralblatt für Mathematik.

Holomorphic functions. --- Unit ball. --- Applied Mathematics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mathematics. --- Mathematical analysis. --- Analysis (Mathematics). --- Analysis. --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- Analysis, Global (Mathematics) --- Differential topology --- Functions of complex variables --- Geometry, Algebraic --- Global analysis (Mathematics). --- 517.1 Mathematical analysis --- Mathematical analysis

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After the pioneering work on complex dynamics by Fatou and Julia in the early 20th century, Noel Baker went on to lay the foundations of transcendental complex dynamics. As one of the leading exponents of transcendental dynamics, he showed how developments in complex analysis such as Nevanlinna theory could be applied. His work has inspired many others to take up this increasingly active subject, and will continue to do so. Presenting papers by researchers in transcendental dynamics and complex analysis, this book is written in honour of Noel Baker. The papers describe the state of the art in this subject, with new results on completely invariant domains, wandering domains, the exponential parameter space, and normal families. The inclusion of comprehensive survey articles on dimensions of Julia sets, buried components of Julia sets, Baker domains, Fatou components of functions of small growth, and ergodic theory of transcendental meromorphic functions means this is essential reading for students and researchers in complex dynamics and complex analysis.

Functions of complex variables. --- Differentiable dynamical systems. --- Mathematical analysis. --- 517.1 Mathematical analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Differential dynamical systems --- Dynamical systems, Differentiable --- Dynamics, Differentiable --- Differential equations --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- Topological dynamics --- Complex variables --- Elliptic functions --- Functions of real variables

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The theory of series in the 17th and 18th centuries poses several interesting problems to historians. Most of the results derived from this time were derived using methods which would be found unacceptable today, and as a result, when one looks back to the theory of series prior to Cauchy without reconstructing internal motivations and the conceptual background, it appears as a corpus of manipulative techniques lacking in rigor whose results seem to be the puzzling fruit of the mind of a magician or diviner rather than the penetrating and complex work of great mathematicians. This monograph not only describes the entire complex of 17th and 18th century procedures and results concerning series, but it also reconstructs the implicit and explicit principles upon which they are based, draws attention to the underlying philosophy, highlights competing approaches, and investigates the mathematical context where the theory originated. The aim here is to improve the understanding of the framework of 17th and 18th century mathematics and avoid trivializing the complexity of historical development by bringing it into line with modern concepts and views and by tacitly assuming that certain results belong, in some sense, to a unified theory that has come down to us today. Giovanni Ferraro is Professor of Mathematics and History of Mathematics at University of Molise.

Series --- Mathematics --- History --- Math --- Science --- Algebra --- Processes, Infinite --- Sequences (Mathematics) --- Sequences (Mathematics). --- Mathematics. --- Global analysis (Mathematics). --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Sequences, Series, Summability. --- Real Functions. --- Analysis. --- Analysis, Global (Mathematics) --- Differential topology --- Functions of complex variables --- Geometry, Algebraic --- Mathematical sequences --- Numerical sequences --- History. --- Functions of real variables. --- Mathematical analysis. --- Analysis (Mathematics). --- 517.1 Mathematical analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Real variables --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history

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Linear Algebra Thoroughly Explained provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject suitable for adoption as a self-contained text for courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The clear and comprehensive presentation of the basic theory is illustrated throughout with an abundance of worked examples. The book is written for teachers and students of linear algebra at all levels and across mathematics and the applied sciences, particularly physics and engineering. It will also be an invaluable addition to research libraries as a comprehensive resource book for the subject.

Algebras, Linear. --- Mathematical analysis. --- 517.1 Mathematical analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Linear algebra --- Algebra, Universal --- Generalized spaces --- Calculus of operations --- Line geometry --- Topology --- Mathematical physics. --- Algebra. --- Mathematical Methods in Physics. --- Physical mathematics --- Physics --- Mathematics --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics