Physiology, promiscuity, and prophecy at the millennium : a tale of tails /
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| Author / Creator: | West, Bruce J. |
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| Imprint: | Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c1999. |
| Description: | vii, 443 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of nonlinear phenomena in life sciences ; vol. 7 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4389330 |
Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. A Tale of Uncertain Knowledge
- Lecture 2. Systems Perspective of Complexity
- Lecture 3. Fractal Random Processes
- Lecture 4. Modeling Random Time Series
- Lecture 5. On Chance and Necessity
- Lecture 6. Averages and Expected Values
- Lecture 7. Variances and Correlations
- Lecture 8. Power Laws, Dimensional Analysis and Scaling
- Lecture 9. Bernoulli and Memory
- Lecture 10. Simple Random Walks and Diffusion
- Lecture 11. Scaling, Geometry and Memory
- Lecture 12. Inverse Power-Law Distributions
- Lecture 13. Fractal Random Walks
- Lecture 14. Levy Distributions and Scaling
- Lecture 15. Inverse Power-Law Correlations
- Lecture 16. Ensembles, Signals and Noise
- Lecture 17. Spectra and Noise
- Lecture 18. Generalized Weierstrass Function
- Lecture 19. How certain can you be?
- Lecture 20. Scaling in Aggregated Data Sets
- Lecture 21. Linear Regression
- Lecture 22. Auto regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA)
- Lecture 23. Fractional Differences and Inverse Power Laws
- Lecture 24. Haphazard Human Heart
- Lecture 25. Willy-nilly Walking
- Lecture 26. Gamboling Genes
- Lecture 27. Scaling Sexual Schemes
- Lecture 28. The Nonlinear Perspective
- Lecture 29. Dynamics and Geometry
- Lecture 30. Mapping and Chaos
- Lecture 31. Memory and Intermittency
- Lecture 32. Intermittency and Levy Statistics
- Lecture 33. Strange Dynamics
- Lecture 34. ART and Teen Births
- Lecture 35. Brown versus Weierstrass
- Lecture 36. Fractional Operations
- Lecture 37. Fractional Calculus Model of Creep
- Lecture 38. Fractional Relaxation
- Lecture 39. Fractional Langevin Equation
- Lecture 40. Fractional Diffusion Equation
- Lecture 41. The End of Our Tale.
