Author: Benjamin Kuipers
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: knowledge, artificial, intelligence, incomplete, simulation, reasoning, modeling, qualitative
Number of Pages: 452
Published: 1994-08-29
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 026211190X
ISBN-13: 9780262111904

This book presents, within a conceptually unified theoretical framework, a body of methods that have been developed over the past fifteen years for building and simulating qualitative models of physical systems—bathtubs, tea kettles, automobiles, the physiology of the body, chemical processing plants, control systems, electrical systems—where knowledge of that system is incomplete. The primary tool for this work is the author’s QSIM algorithm, which is discussed in detail. Qualitative models are better able than traditional models to express states of incomplete knowledge about co

Author: J.L. Schafer
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Keywords: amp, monographs, statistics, applied, probability, crc, hall, multivariate, data, chapman, analysis, incomplete
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $109.95
ISBN-10: 0412040611
ISBN-13: 9780412040610

The last two decades have seen enormous developments in statistical methods for incomplete data. The EM algorithm and its extensions, multiple imputation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo provide a set of flexible and reliable tools from inference in large classes of missing-data problems. Yet, in practical terms, those developments have had surprisingly little impact on the way most data analysts handle missing values on a routine basis. Analysis of Incomplete Multivariate Data helps bridge the gap between theory and practice, making these missing-data tools accessible to a broad audience. It pr

Authors:Thorsten Hens, Beate Pilgrim,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: models, theory, decision, library, markets, incomplete, equilibrium, foundations, finance, structure, general
Number of Pages: 335
Published: 2003-01-31
List price: $179.00
ISBN-10: 1402073372
ISBN-13: 9781402073373

Text strives to give a sound economic foundation of finance based on the general equilibrium model with incomplete markets, which embodies the famous CAPM as an important special case. Of interest to advanced Ph.D. students and theorists of mathematical economics.

Author: Gereon Müller
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: natural, studies, language, linguistic, theory, german, movement, fronting, category, derivational, approach, remnant, incomplete
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 1997-12-31
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0792348370
ISBN-13: 9780792348375

Incomplete Category Fronting is a detailed investigation of the syntax of incomplete category fronting in German, carried out from a cross-linguistic perspective. The study presents a wealth of empirical evidence involving unbound traces created by remnant topicalization, wh-movement, scrambling, left dislocation, and extraposition. Four characteristic properties of remnant movement are identified that pose severe problems for a representational movement theory. It is argued that these properties can be fruitfully addressed on the basis of Chomsky’s minimalist program, and that t

Author: Silvina A. Montrul
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Keywords: bilingualism, studies, factor, examining, incomplete, acquisition
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2008-09-17
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 9027241759
ISBN-13: 9789027241757

Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage speakers who, unlike adult second language learners, acquired two or more languages in childhood.

Author: John Geweke
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: econometric, institutes, lectures, tinbergen, models, incomplete, complete
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2010-02-28
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0691140022
ISBN-13: 9780691140025

Econometric models are widely used in the creation and evaluation of economic policy in the public and private sectors. But these models are useful only if they adequately account for the phenomena in question, and they can be quite misleading if they do not. In response, econometricians have developed tests and other checks for model adequacy. All of these methods, however, take as given the specification of the model to be tested. In this book, John Geweke addresses the critical earlier stage of model development, the point at which potential models are inherently incomplete. Summarizing and

Authors:Andrew Gelman, Xiao-Li Meng,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: wiley, perspectives, series, probability, statistics, data, incomplete, bayesian, modeling, causal, inference, applied
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2004-09-15
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 047009043X
ISBN-13: 9780470090435

This book brings together a collection of articles on statistical methods relating to missing data analysis, including multiple imputation, propensity scores, instrumental variables, and Bayesian inference. Covering new research topics and real-world examples which do not feature in many standard texts. The book is dedicated to Professor Don Rubin (Harvard). Don Rubin  has made fundamental contributions to the study of missing data. Key features of the book include: Comprehensive coverage of an imporant area for both research and applications. Adopts a pragmatic approach to describing