Proceedings of the 10th Asian Logic Conference, Kobe, Japan, 1-6 September 2008

Table of Contents: “…Yang and L. Yu -- Weak randomness, genericity and boolean decision trees / T. …”
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Electroanalytical chemistry : new research

Table of Contents: “…Introduction ; II. The Hypothesis of Randomness [11], and Testing Independence Against Trend [12] ; III. …”
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Digital architecture beyond computers : fragments of a cultural history of computational design by Bottazzi, Roberto

Table of Contents: “…NotesChapter 5: Pixel; Introduction; Sfondato: Beyond physical space; The electric screen; Contemporary landscape; Notes; Chapter 6: Random; Introduction; The limits of reason: Random numbers in history; Michael A. …”
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Reliability engineering by Kapur, Kailash C., 1941-

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The Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art.

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Computational prospects of infinity. Part I, Tutorials

Table of Contents: “…Five lectures on algorithmic randomness / Rod Downey. Global properties of the Turing degrees and the Turing jump / Theodore A. …”
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Golf by the numbers by Minton, Roland B., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Golfer's spread : variation in golf -- Good luck putting : randomness on the greens -- The rivalry : cautious and risky strategies -- Handicap systems and other hustles -- Analysis of PGA tour statistics. …”
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Best writing on mathematics 2013

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Fearful symmetry / Ian Stewart -- E pluribus unum : from complexity, universality / Terence Tao -- Degrees of separation / Gregory Goth -- Randomness / Charles Seife -- Randomness in music / Donald E. …”
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Handbook of probability by Florescu, Ionuţ, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Probability Space -- Probability Measure -- Random Variables : Generalities -- Random Variables : the Discrete Case -- Random Variables : the Continuous Case -- Generating Random Variables -- Random Vectors in Rn -- Characteristic Function -- Moment Generating Function -- Gaussian Random Vectors -- Convergence Types : A.S. …”
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Probability Theory and Statistical Applications : a Profound Treatise for Self-Study. by Zörnig, Peter

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Probability in Banach Spaces : Isoperimetry and Processes by Ledoux, Michel

Table of Contents: “…Generalities on Banach Space Valued Random Variables and Random Processes -- Part I. Banach Space Valued Random Variables and Their Strong Limiting Properties -- Chapter 3. …”
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Essentials of Monte Carlo Simulation : Statistical Methods for Building Simulation Models. by Thomopoulos, Nick T.

Table of Contents: “…Essentials of Monte Carlo Simulation; Preface; Time Series Forecasting; Order Quantity; Safety Stock; Production; Other; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Monte Carlo Method; Random Number Generators; Computer Languages; Computer Simulation Software; Basic Fundamentals; Chapter Summaries; Chapter 2: Random Number Generators; Introduction; Modular Arithmetic; Linear Congruent Generators; Generating Uniform Variates; 32-Bit Word Length; Random Number Generator Tests; Length of the Cycle; Mean and Variance; Chi Square; Autocorrelation; Pseudo Random Numbers; Summary.…”
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The Universal Tactics of Successful Trend Trading Finding Opportunity in Uncertainty. by Penfold, Brent

Table of Contents: “…-- A Normal Distribution -- The Bell Curve -- RWT -- EMH -- Randomness is King -- A Perfect (Random) Market -- A Tale of Three Pictures -- Are Markets Really Normally Distributed? …”
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Physics of life : the physicist's road to biology.

Table of Contents: “…Stochastic Processes -- 19. Random Walk* -- 20. Stochastic Step Processes; Master Equations* -- 21. …”
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Stochastic Simulation and Applications in Finance with MATLAB Programs. by Huynh, Huu Tue

Table of Contents: “…2.1.3 Mean, Variance and Higher Moments of a Random Variable2.1.4 Characteristic Function of a Random Variable; 2.2 Random vectors; 2.2.1 Cumulative Distribution Function of a Random Vector; 2.2.2 Probability Density Function of a Random Vector; 2.2.3 Marginal Distribution of a Random Vector; 2.2.4 Conditional Distribution of a Random Vector; 2.2.5 Mean, Variance and Higher Moments of a Random Vector; 2.2.6 Characteristic Function of a Random Vector; 2.3 Transformation of Random Variables; 2.4 Transformation of Random Vectors.…”
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Causal inference for statistics, social, and biomedical sciences : an introduction by Imbens, Guido

Table of Contents: “…Part 1: Introduction -- Causality: The Basic Framework -- A Brief History of the Potential Outcomes Approach to Causal Inference -- A Classification of Assignment Mechanisms -- Part 2: Classical Randomized Experiments -- A Taxonomy of Classical Randomized Experiments -- Fisher's Exact P-Values for Completely Randomized Experiments -- Neyman's Repeated Sampling Approach to Completely Randomized Experiments -- Regression Methods for Completely Randomized Experiments -- Model-Based Inference for Completely Randomized Experiments -- Stratified Randomized Experiments -- Pairwise Randomized Experiments -- Case Study: An Experimental Evaluation of a Labor Market Program -- Part 3: Regular Assignment Mechanisms: Design -- Unconfounded Treatment Assignment -- Estimating the Propensity Score -- Assessing Overlap in Covariate Distributions -- Matching to Improve Balance in Covariate Distributions -- Trimming to Improve Balance in Covariate Distribution -- Part 4: Regular Assignment Mechanisms: Analysis -- Subclassification on the Propensity Score -- Matching Estimators -- A General Method for Estimating Sampling Variances for Standard Estimators for Average Causal Effects -- Inference for General Causal Estimands -- Part 5: Regular Assignment Mechanisms: Supplementary Analyses -- Assessing Unconfoundedness -- Sensitivity Analysis and Bounds -- Part 6: Regular Assignment Mechanisms with Noncompliance: Analysis -- Instrumental Variables Analysis of Randomized Experiments with One-Sided Noncompliance -- Instrumental Variables Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Two-Sided Noncompliance -- Model-Based Analysis in Instrumental Variable Settings: Randomized Experiments with Two-Sided Noncompliance -- Part 7: Conclusion -- Conclusions and Extensions.…”
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Aviation Lore in Faulkner. by Harrison, Robert

Table of Contents: “….; "THRIFT," Uncollected Stories (New York: Random House, 1973, 382-398).; "AD ASTRA, "CollectedStories (New York: Random House, n.d., 407-429).; "ALL THE DEAD PILOTS," Collected Stories (New York: Random House, n.d., 511-531).; "TURNABOUT," Collected Stories (New York: Random House, n.d., 475-509).; "THE LEG," Collected Stories (New York: Random House, n.d., 824-842).…”
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Good Thinking : the Foundations of Probability and Its Applications. by Good, I. J.

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A World of Excesses : Online Games and Excessive Playing. by Karlsen, Faltin

Table of Contents: “…Media narratives and public concerns -- 4. Addiction and randomness -- 5. Game structure and loyalty programmes -- 6. …”
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Good Thinking : the Foundations of Probability and Its Applications. by Good, I. J.

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Cognition And Chance : the Psychology of Probabilistic Reasoning. by Nickerson, Raymond S.

Table of Contents: “…Probability and Chance; 2. Randomness; 3. Coincidences; 4. Inverse Probability and the Reverend Tnomas Bayes; 5. …”
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Information : the new language of science by Von Baeyer, Hans Christian

Table of Contents: “…Electric rain : information in our lives -- The spell of Democritus : why information will transform physics -- In-formation : the roots fo the concept -- Counting bits : the scientific measure of information -- Abstraction : beyond concrete reality -- The book of life : genetic information -- A battle among giants : reductionism and emergence -- The oracle of Copenhagen : science is about information -- Figuring the odds : how probability measures information -- Counting digits : the ubiquitous logarithm -- The message on the tombstone : the meaning of entropy -- Randomness : the flip side of information -- Electric information : from Morse to Shannon -- Noise : nuisance and necessity -- Ultimate speed : the information speed limit -- Unpacking information : the computer in the service of physics -- Bioinformatics : biology meets information technology -- Information is physical : the cost of forgetting -- The quantum gadget : quantum weirdness brought to light -- A game of beads : the wonder of superposition -- The Quiubit : information in the quantum age -- Quantum computing : putting Qubits to work -- Black holes : where information goes to hide -- Bits, bucks, hits and nuts : information theory beyond Shannon -- Zeilinger's principle : information at the root of reality.…”

Probability concepts and theory for engineers by Schwarzlander, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Part 1: The Basic Model -- Part 2: The Approach to Elementary Probability Problems -- Part 3: Introduction to Random Variables -- Part 4: Transformations and Multiple Random Variables -- Part 5: Parameters for Describing Random Variables and Induced Distributions -- Part 6: Further Topics in Random Variables -- Appendices -- Notation and Abbreviations -- References -- Subject Index.…”
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Introduction to probability with Texas hold'em examples by Schoenberg, Frederic Paik

Table of Contents: “…Probability basics -- Counting problems -- conditional probability and independence -- Expected value and variance -- Discrete random variables -- Continuous random variables -- Collections of random variables -- Simulation and approximation using computers exercises.…”
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Probability and Stochastic Processes by Florescu, Ionut

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Probability -- Chapter 1: Elements of Probability Measure -- 1.1 Probability Spaces -- 1.2 Conditional Probability -- 1.3 Independence -- 1.4 Monotone Convergence Properties of Probability -- 1.5 Lebesgue Measure on the Unit Interval (0,1] -- Problems -- Chapter 2: Random Variables -- Reduction to R. Random variables -- 2.1 Discrete and Continuous Random Variables -- 2.2 Examples of Commonly Encountered Random Variables…”
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Praise of chromosome "folly" : confessions of an untamed molecular structure by Lima-de-Faria, A.

Table of Contents: “…III. Who cares for randomness. 41. Randomness was originally foreign to science. 42. …”
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Simulating copulas : stochastic models, sampling algorithms and applications by Mai, Jan-Frederik

Table of Contents: “…Generating normally distributed random numbers. 6.7. Generating lognormal random numbers. 6.8. …”
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An Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes by Berger, Marc A.

Table of Contents: “…I. Univariate Random Variables -- Discrete Random Variables -- Properties of Expectation -- Properties of Characteristic Functions -- Basic Distributions -- Absolutely Continuous Random Variables -- Basic Distributions -- Distribution Functions -- Computer Generation of Random Variables -- Exercises -- II. …”
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An introduction to probability and statistical inference by Roussas, George G.

Table of Contents: “…Some motivating examples and some fundamental concepts -- The concept of probability and some basic results -- Numerical characteristics of a random variable, some special random variables -- Joint and conditional P.D.F.'…”
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Probability models for economic decisions by Myerson, Roger B.

Table of Contents: “…Simulation and conditional probability -- Discrete random variables -- Utility theory with constant risk tolerance -- Continuous random variables -- Correlation and multivariate normal random variables -- Conditional expectation -- Optimization of decision variables -- Risk sharing and finance -- Dynamic models of growth and arrivals.…”
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Chaos and fractals : new frontiers of science by Peitgen, Heinz-Otto, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Causality Principle, Deterministic Laws and Chaos -- 1 The Backbone of Fractals: Feedback and the Iterator -- 2 Classical Fractals and Self-Similarity -- 3 Limits and Self-Similarity -- 4 Length, Area and Dimension: Measuring Complexity and Scaling Properties -- 5 Encoding Images by Simple Transformations -- 6 The Chaos Game: How Randomness Creates Deterministic Shapes -- 7 Recursive Structures: Growing of Fractals and Plants -- 8 Pascal's Triangle: Cellular Automata and Attractors -- 9 Irregular Shapes: Randomness in Fractal Constructions -- 10 Deterministic Chaos: Sensitivity, Mixing, and Periodic Points -- 11 Order and Chaos: Period-Doubling and its Chaotic Mirror -- 12 Strange Attractors: The Locus of Chaos -- 13 Julia Sets: Fractal Basin Boundaries -- 14 The Mandelbrot Set: Ordering the Julia Sets -- A A Discussion of Fractal Image Compression -- A.1 Self-Similarity in Images -- A.2 A Special MRCM -- A.3 Encoding Images -- A.4 Ways to Partition Images -- A.5 Implementation Notes -- B Multifractal Measures -- B.1 Introduction -- B.2 The Binomial and Multinomial Measures -- B.5 Some Applications, and Advanced Multifractals.…”
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Videofashion collections. Volume 3, Episode 1, New York

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Chance action and therapy : the playful way of changing by Wernik, Uri

Table of Contents: “…Oh captain, your boat is stuck -- Senseless sex -- They call you Lady Luck -- Randomness can do you good -- Weight loss with no-diet -- Centaurs are us -- Cards and playfulness -- Willpower is not what it used to be -- Giving up smoking without ever quitting -- Habits, multiplicities, and paradoxes -- Card games for two -- Dice man and woman -- Standing straight and tall -- Epictetus meets Lady Luck -- Panic, obsessions, and broken hearts -- More card games -- Chance, change, and action.…”
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GIS And Health : GISDATA 6. by Gattrell, A.

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Editors' Preface; Notes on Editors; Contributors; European Science Foundation; Methodological Issues; GIS and Health Research: An Introduction; GIS as an Enabling Technology; Spatial Statistics and the Analysis of Health Data; Statistical Methods for Spatial Epidemiology: Tests for Randomness; Improving the Geographic Basis of Health Surveillance using GIS; Modelling Spatial Variations in Air Quality using GIS; GIS, Time Geography and Health; Applications; GIS Applications for Environment and Health in Italy.…”
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Proportional Hazards Regression. by O'Quigley, John

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter; Introduction; Background: Probability; Background: General inference; Background: Survival analysis; Marginal survival; Regression models and subject heterogeneity; Inference: Estimating equations; Inference: Functions of Brownian motion; Inference: Likelihood; Inference: Stochastic integrals; Inference: Small samples; Inference: Changepoint models; Explained variation; Explained randomness; Survival given covariates; Proofs of theorems, lemmas and corollaries; Back Matter.…”
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Adaptive designs for sequential treatment allocation by Antognini, Alessandro Baldi, Giovagnoli, Alessandra

Table of Contents: “…Randomization procedures that depend on the responses -- 4. …”
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Probability : an introduction by Grimmett, Geoffrey, Welsh, D. J. A.

Table of Contents: “…3 Multivariate discrete distributions and independence3.1 Bivariate discrete distributions; 3.2 Expectation in the multivariate case; 3.3 Independence of discrete random variables; 3.4 Sums of random variables; 3.5 Indicator functions; 3.6 Problems; 4 Probability generating functions; 4.1 Generating functions; 4.2 Integer-valued random variables; 4.3 Moments; 4.4 Sums of independent random variables; 4.5 Problems; 5 Distribution functions and density functions; 5.1 Distribution functions; 5.2 Examples of distribution functions; 5.3 Continuous random variables.…”
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Statistical optics by Goodman, Joseph W.

Table of Contents: “…Random variables -- Random processes -- Some first-order statistical properties of light -- Temporal and spatial coherence of optical waves -- Some problems involving higher-order coherence -- Effects of partial coherence in imaging systems -- Imaging through randomly inhomogeneous media -- Fundamental limits in photoelectric detection of light.…”
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Probability An Introduction with Statistical Applications. by Kinney, John J.

Table of Contents: “…2.2 Distribution Functions -- 2.3 Expected Values of Discrete Random Variables -- 2.4 Binomial Distribution -- 2.5 A Recursion -- 2.6 Some Statistical Considerations -- 2.7 Hypothesis Testing: Binomial Random Variables -- 2.8 Distribution of A Sample Proportion -- 2.9 Geometric and Negative Binomial Distributions -- 2.10 The Hypergeometric Random Variable: Acceptance Sampling -- 2.11 Acceptance Sampling (Continued) -- 2.12 The Hypergeometric Random Variable: Further Examples -- 2.13 The Poisson Random Variable -- 2.14 The Poisson Process -- Chapter Review -- Problems for Review…”
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Algorithmic information theory for physicists and natural scientists by Devine, Sean

Table of Contents: “…Martin-Löf test of randomness…”
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