Capa

LECTURES ON PROBABILITY THEORY AND STATISTICS.

SPRINGER
03 / 2004
9783540208327
978-35-4020-832-7
Inglês
Lecture Notes in Mathematics
ESPANHA
Ingles

Sinopse

This volume contains lectures given at the 31st Probability Summer School in Saint-Flour (July 8-25, 2001). Simon Tavaré'snbsp;lectures serve as an introduction to the coalescent, and to inference for ancestral processes in population genetics. The stochastic computation methods describednbsp;include rejection methods, importance sampling, Markov chain Monte Carlo, and approximate Bayesian methods. Ofer Zeitouni'snbsp;course on "Random Walks in Random Environment" presentsnbsp;systematicallynbsp;the tools that have been introduced to study the model. A fairly complete description of available results in dimension 1 is given. For higher dimension, the basic techniques and a discussion of some of the available results are provided. The contribution also includes an updated annotated bibliography and suggestions for further reading. Olivier Catoni's course appears separately.